Jack King – The Mississippi Link

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Jack King, who counted down NASA’s Apollo 11 launch, dead at 84

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(AP) Jack King, a NASA public affairs official who became the voice of the Apollo moon shots, died Thursday. He was 84. King counted down the historic launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. […]