Thank you for sharing, too. High five to the rocket engineers.
“They did so much of it with 20 inch slide rules and pencil and paper.” True. It is humbling to realize how your aunt and my father were prepared by college to draft plans for courageous pilots to fly beyond the sound barrier. Amazing stories from Los Angeles.
It was a very different set of students in those days. My aunt went to UC Berkley and many of her class mates were the guys who came home after the war and used their GI Bill to go to school
She was a Mech E major. Never her occurred to her to cry about discrimination. All she ever did was work hard.
To me the most amazing thing was how humble she and her fellow engineers were. They ere just doing their jobs nothing special about them ( their view not mine)