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This site tells the history of aerospace technology through first-person stories. The purpose is to let individual authors submit stories that they believe are interesting or important incidents and/or history relating to today’s aerospace technology. Each article is cross-referenced into a number of categories in a way that permits a reader to cull information from a variety of sources.
Site Overview
  • Contains stories about personal experience in Aerospace over the years by many different authors
  • Benefit from lessons learned and rediscover lost technology
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    • to compare experience of different authors in same time period
    • to compare experience of different authors on same project
    • to compare experience of different authors in same company
    • to read about activities of various named individuals
We feature a story by Vince Wheelock: "Rocketdyne, The Early Years". A more complete story is found in a book "Rocketdyne: Powering Humans into Space" which he co-authored with Robert S. Kraemer, Library of Flight Series Published by AIAA, © 2006, 275 pages.


There are several stories from the North American Aviation Retirees Bulletin. Try the 5 on the list to the right beginning with Wheelock. Find more by searching the database. All that are posted have been given permission to post by the authors. More are coming.
Featured Manuscripts

Challenger and Columbia Investigations
By
Allen J. Richardson
Random Memories of an Aerospace Career
By
Robert F. Weiss
SOME MEMORIES OF MY CAREER
By
John R. Sellars
Rocketdyne, The Early Years
By
Vince Wheelock
The Minuteman Air Drop
By
Gene Andreosky
The X-15 and Its People
By
Cleve Kimmel
The Navaho Project - A Look Back
By
James Gibson
A History of the X-15
By
Bill Dana
The Adventure of Working For Space Technology Laboratories in Florida
By
Harry Charles
ON THE CUTTING EDGE
A Memoir About Cold War Engineering And Space Exploration
By
Robert F. Brodsky
My Career
By
M. Richard Denison
The Neophyte in Aero-Space Land
By
Dale Lawrence Jensen


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