That's not my department!

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I cannot believe this statement is true:

Michael J. Neufeld, the author of "Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War" (Knopf; $35), acknowledges that "hardly anyone under age forty" knows his subject's name, even though America's moon shots owed a large measure of their success to him.
—Thomas Mallon, "Rocket Man: The Complex Orbits of Wernher von Braun."

If nothing else, doesn't anyone still listen to Tom Lehrer?

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but in my case I used to work with a guy who knew non Braun personally. (Comes from working in the Aerospace industry, I suppose.)

That's awesome, actually. What do you do?

[ecbatan.livejournal.com]

I write software for Boeing, formerly McDonnell Douglas. I joined the then McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company because I wanted to work on space projects -- and in fact a couple of good friends worked on the space station (that is, not ON it but worked on the design), and another friend was scheduled to fly as a civilian on the shuttle two or three launches after Challenger -- but of course that never happened. However, I never really got to work very much (just a bit) on real space-oriented projects.

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However, I never really got to work very much (just a bit) on real space-oriented projects.

Just a bit is still cool.