[RayChuang88]

Mind you, Mythbusters busted that legend in no time flat (it was one of the more memorable episodes of that series).

[Young Werther]

My National Space Society club updated the Boy Scout Space Exploration Handbook. I was the chairman of the writing committee and wrote the "History of Space Flight. My theme was flight legends and I included Icarus along with true pioneers like HG Wells, Lindbergh, Goddard, and von Braun.

Did you know that When Lindbergh returned to NY a gigantic parade occurred and would not occur again till the Apollo 11 Crew returned from the moon.

Lindbergh made the rounds of the high society parties where he was offered additional monies. He declined since his St Louis investors gave Lindbergh the Ortieg prize. Lindbergh advised the wall street investors that there was this high school teacher in Massachusetts by the Name of Goddard who could use this money to develop new and more powerfull rockets.

Von Braun would read Goddard's papers and the V2 was born. Von braun came to the US after WWII and the US Space Program advanced. Von Braun and the German "Rocket Boys" would take us from V2 to Saturn V to the Moon.

When Neil Armstrong took that "First Step" the Apollo Emblem was

An eagle landing. Lindbergh,the Lone Eagle,would say on his death bed that he was proud of the US for the Eagle landing a US flag on the moon!

[Calvin Locke]

That was a pretty good epi.

Reminded me of the Soviet N-1 troubles with large numbers of engines not working in the desired balanced-thrust mode of operation.