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- From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: *Angle of Attack*: have you read it?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.105753.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:57:53 GMT
- Sender: daemon@linac.fnal.gov (The Background Man)
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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- Suddenly I have a desire to know everything I can about *Angle of
- Attack*, a new book by Mike Gray, the screenwriter who penned *The
- China Syndrome*. I may have a chance to meet the author this week.
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- The book is the story of Harrison Storms, the head of North American
- Aviation's space division during the development of the Apollo command
- module (NAA also developed one of the Saturn V stages, I think).
- Storms was canned in the wake of the Apollo fire investigation, much
- disucssed here in the past week.
-
- I know John Mechalas of Purdue has read the book. Anybody else want
- to comment on it? Is it worth buying? Is there more to it than I
- have described? Does the author think Storms was a scapegoat for
- other peoples' mistakes? I'd appreciate hearing from anybody who's
- read it, or even getting pointers to reviews.
-
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- Engineer of Hijacked Train: Bill Higgins
- "Is this a holdup?"
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Masked Gunman:
- (Hesitates, looks at partner, Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET
- looks at engineer again) SPAN/Hepnet/Physnet: 43011::HIGGINS
- "It's a science experiment!" Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV
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