JoAnn Morgan's Apollo Story
theatlantic.com
theatlantic.com
The tone was lighter... by Morgan’s own words she was accepted at NASA after the launch and continued to work there until after retirement.
> MORGAN: They got used to me, and they accepted me. And so by Apollo 11, them putting me out there to be there at liftoff was probably not that big a surprise. And after launch, the test supervisor, who happened to be the same one who'd told me I couldn't be at blockhouse 34, he came down and gave me a cigar when he was handing out cigars.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/05/738860204/joann-morgan-the-on...