A tip of the hat, to Americas unsung patriots.
Ditos to that!!
>>He describes the white-hot excitement as teams pored over hand-drawings and worked on endless technical problems, using “slide-rules and advanced degrees” (there were no computers), knowing they were part of such a complicated space project. The intensity would increase as launch deadlines loomed and on the days when “the customer” — the CIA and later the Air Force — came for briefings. On at least one occasion, former President George H.W. Bush, who was then CIA director, flew into Danbury for a tour of the plant.<<
Slide rules? I can imagine what the napkins scribbled on, at the local coffee shop looked like! Top secret.
Little known facility in Arkansas was used in the “70’s for research on saccharine effects i.e. cancer. It was managed by FDA and was called NCTR. It was a converted WW2 Germ warfare research and development center. It had a room almost as long as a foot ball field that raised Mosquitoes that to be infected with malaria and dropped over the Japs... The unit had many work stations that had rubber gloves (to the shoulders) The bugs were to be infected and harvested by air pulling then to a collection chamber. Been there , saw it. It was bulldozed into a great pile on the back of facility and covered over! Don’t think it was ever put in operation. They did a lot of stinky stuff there!