It was. But when I visitted the NASM in October, the “early space” section of the museum was emptied out. When I visited the Udvar-Hazy center a little later, the Hot Rod wasn’t there, and nobody there knew anything about it. It is, I presume, sitting in a box somewhere.
Dang – even more important that your project continues or else the following generations will forget.
I did read through your earlier posts on saving knowledge from your career and the giants we launch our careers on every day and had a little dejavu.
My mentor at OEA said the exact same thing to me when he handed over his ballistics files from ~1950 through 2000 over for my safekeeping. He said “make sure this is not forgotten”. I use the files often. The info is safe in my personal files or transcribed over to more modern calculations sheets in mathcad now.
I could have sworn I saw the “Hot-Rod” Orion prototype at the Smithsonian as well.
It was. But when I visitted the NASM in October, the “early space” section of the museum was emptied out. When I visited the Udvar-Hazy center a little later, the Hot Rod wasn’t there, and nobody there knew anything about it. It is, I presume, sitting in a box somewhere.
Dang – even more important that your project continues or else the following generations will forget.
I did read through your earlier posts on saving knowledge from your career and the giants we launch our careers on every day and had a little dejavu.
My mentor at OEA said the exact same thing to me when he handed over his ballistics files from ~1950 through 2000 over for my safekeeping. He said “make sure this is not forgotten”. I use the files often. The info is safe in my personal files or transcribed over to more modern calculations sheets in mathcad now.
I remember seeing the “Hot-Rod” Orion at the Smithsonian, many many years ago. Actually more like decades ago.