@chris_hayes @mike I am/was a rocket fan. Can't helped but be impressed with today's technology, but not the people that run the companies. My Dad was a civilian contractor for Douglas Aircraft & was assigned to Project Paperclip which dealt with testing the captured WWII V2s at White Sands. They didn't have telemetry yet & had to attach a couple of miles of wire to the rockets to get data back. o_0 He was also on the crew that launched the 1st rocket from the Cape. 1/2
@chris_hayes @mike I sure wish he had lived long enough to see a Falcon booster return to its pad. It would have blown his mind! At White Sands & later with Bumper 8, the 1st rocket launched from the Cape, they were the 1st two stage rockets: a V2 with a WAC Corporeal second stage. Most of them blew up on the pad. But some flew & now look where we are! I just want to throw up when I think of the owners of those private companies, though. Very sad. What a wonderful legacy they have squandered.
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