Follow link to Charlie Wallace's blog for the complete article:
Steve [Dempsey's] rocket story 1969/70
"...The folks back at the launch site told us over the walkie-talkies that they were OK. So we headed back there. At this point a huge mushroom cloud of smoke had risen, then spread out to nearly fill the sky above the entire valley that Clark Dry Lake sits in. We wondered what people in Borrego Springs thought of this..."
