[GeronL]

Has anyone produced a game based on that?

//sarc

[rktman]

Hey Jack. Sorry for your loss. We’ve talked before about the space program and having dealt with “Red crew” situations over the years on the shuttle systems all I can say is thanks for remembering him in that manner. For those that didn’t have the opportunity and honor to work on those systems, appreciate the effort that so many folks put out on the Saturn and Shuttle systems. Maybe never to be seen again, a US human space program. No direction and minimal funding so it’s probably up to the private sector.

[NonValueAdded]

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[higgmeister]

Wow, what a fantastic legacy and tribute! Bill Moore touched history, as the right man at the right time.

I am also proud of my Dad's contribution to the Space Race. Around the same time, 1965 - 1967, my Dad worked for GE as a main frame computer programmer on the parts inventory for the Saturn V. Probably the most ambitious effort of programming up to that time.

He worked in one of those old one story wood frame converted Army barracks buildings next to the headquarters building. They were designed as several huts in long straight rows connected by short walkways and as I remember it, the Computer Room was in a newer construction connected at one end. I remember mag tape cabinets were crammed in everywhere.

We lived 10 miles from the arsenal and when they did a static tie-down test of the main booster the ground shook more than in most earthquakes. Wonderful times in "The Rocket City" back then.

[MacNaughton]

Thanks for sharing this inspiring story of your father. A life well lived.

1706-1790 - Benjamin Franklin
Selections from Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758
 “Haste makes Waste.”
 “Little strokes fell great oaks.”
 “Well done is better than well said.”

[Netz]

Hats off and salutes to a great man, just doing his job and believing in the “can do” NASA approach the catapulted this country forward by decades.

Today, we have little vision and little self-confidence and that is a national shame. In tribute to the men and women like your grandfather, we need to rededicate ourselves to manned missions.

We also need to fight the “Hoax” community who actually believe the Space/Moon race was faked.

[SunTzuWu]

Bookmark.

[Psalm 73]

Great post - I just love this kind of stuff.

[Alas Babylon!]

Brennan, I salute your grandfather, a real American Hero! In my first enlistment in the Air Force, I was stationed at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, and had a chance to work with many of the former Rocket Men, who had moved on from Apollo and Sky Lab to us.

[Resolute Conservative]

I always incorporate stories like this when I am comparing what has been achieved by older generations to the ones now that design social apps (or the one’s that designed Nobama’s webpage).

Guys like these fellows and the like of Kelly Johnson are sorely needed.

[2001convSVT]

Thanks, great story.

[zeugma]

Awesome story Jack. We owe men like your Grandfather a tremendous debt of thanks. They opened up a frontier to all mankind, though we seem to have not really taken advantage of it since the politicians slammed the door shut due to their short-sightedness. Someday we’ll be back, if our aversion to risk hasn’t become so great as to doom us all to this stinking rock.

[RFEngineer]

Thumbs up!!

Wonderful story.

[Jim Noble]

Just a bunch of old crackers, wasting money instead of sending it right to EBT cards.

We’re SO much smarter and better off now.

(Very sorry for your loss, which is, really, all of our loss).

[Constitution Day]

Amazing post. Sorry for the loss of your grandfather; he sounds like he was quite a remarkable man!