My father knew a number of the original astronauts from their days as test pilots for Lockheed and Vought projects.
An amazing group of people.
We were a lot better back then.
(I still have my dad’s slide rule)
You tickled my memories about slide rules. As a college freshman I sweated to buy the gem of slide rules a K&E log-log duplex ivory over mahogany. It is a jewel I still have it. After WWII on the G.I. Bill I got a Pickett & Eckel magnesium vector log-log which was king of the rules at the time and which I still have. I picked up all kinds of rules along the way, small, large and circular. The advancement of handheld calculators really shelved the slide rules and hid the history. I remember an engineering prof telling the class that the most valuable things to an engineer were his slide rule and drafting set. Things will and do change.