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To: RadioAstronomer

He has some great stories, especially from his days at Wallops Island, sending up payloads to test heat shield materials, and fighting over the remains with the watermen whose oyster beds they would crash into.


147 posted on 09/28/2004 8:45:06 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (I voted for Bush... before I voted for Bush.)
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To: SlowBoat407
He has some great stories, especially from his days at Wallops Island, sending up payloads to test heat shield materials, and fighting over the remains with the watermen whose oyster beds they would crash into.

Tell him he needs to write them down! So much of our space history is still unknown. I am in the process of writing a book called "The Memoirs of a Rocket Scientist". :-)

148 posted on 09/28/2004 8:48:10 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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