[SevenofNine]

Yeah they didn’t mention Issac Anstirov also Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry I THINK he serve too

[DMZFrank]

Gene Roddenberry was a bombadier on a B-17 Flying Fortress with a 10 man crew in the SW Pacific in WWII. I think that is why the dynamics of how starship crews interact is such a dominant theme in his woirk.

[katana]

You mean Isaac Azimov (don't know this Astrinov fellow)? But I did come across this picture of L. Sprague de Camp, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1944 (where Azimov was a civilian worker). Heinlein was a 1920 Annapolis graduate and De Sprague was a Naval Reserve officer.