[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.

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". :-)

[SlowBoat407]

Tell him he needs to write them down!

I'm trying to get him to do just that. I may have to just pin him down and turn on a video camera. It'll be no problem getting him to talk. The hard part is getting him to stop moving for more than a few minutes. I remember picinics at Langley Research Center when the Mercury 7 astronauts were training there, and my brother and I would play hide and seek with them. I had no idea at the time how close to history I really was.

[missyme]

Thanks for the good info RA I will proably sleep better now on Asteroid Night...

[Denver Ditdat]

I am in the process of writing a book called "The Memoirs of a Rocket Scientist". :-)

Wow! Ping me when it's ready - I want a copy of the hardcover edition! I'm fascinated by the history of the space program, both ours and that of the old Soviet Union. There is plenty available about the astronauts, of course, but I want more on the science and engineering aspects. A lot more.

One of my favorite Apollo program books is Murray and Cox's "Apollo - The Race To The Moon". I'm afraid that too many tales of early NASA have already died with the old hands and not been recorded. That's unfortunate, because it's really fascinating stuff.

Another favorite: Stages To Saturn. I loaned out my hardcover copy years ago and never got it back. :-(

I'm sure you have already looked into all of this, but have you contacted Apogee Books? A book such as yours seems right up their alley.