MacDonald, John D. The Scarlet Ruse.

... I told her about the radio tape years ago, made in Lauderdale, and broadcast only once before NASA came galloping in, all sweaty, and confiscated it.  The interviewer had asked one of those good and tough and free-thinking men of the early days of space orbiting how he felt as the rocket was taking off.  Maybe it was because he had heard that question too many times.  He answered it with a question.  'How would you feel, taking off, sitting up there on top of fifty thousand parts, knowing that every one of them had been let to the lowest bidder?'