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Comments on: Meet the Miners behind the moon landing https://news.mst.edu/2019/07/meet-the-miners-behind-the-moon-landing/ Your source for the latest from Rolla Fri, 02 Aug 2019 02:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 By: Robert A Faenger https://news.mst.edu/2019/07/meet-the-miners-behind-the-moon-landing/#comment-219575 Fri, 02 Aug 2019 02:47:52 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=28801#comment-219575 Kudos to these three, but I’ll bet there is over a thousand Miners who helped get them there, working for all the aerospace companies of that era. I’m ONE, I was lucky enough to get to work at McDonnell’s Engineering Labs, testing Projects Mercury, Gemini, Skylab, and some others that didn’t get approved. Apollo could have never made it without the very successful efforts and stellar record of the McDonnell programs. And it was such a huge effort, by so many of MSM’s graduates, and probably a lot of guys/gals that didn’t get to graduate, but ended up in the space programs, somewhere, anyway. You know, it would be interesting for the alumni office to find out, ……….how many did help get men on the moon ?

]]> By: William Roy Chastain https://news.mst.edu/2019/07/meet-the-miners-behind-the-moon-landing/#comment-219566 Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:57:47 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=28801#comment-219566 As a Chem Engr. from the class of 1955, I am proud of the accomplishments of graduates from later years. At the time of the moon landing, I was already deep in my career with PPG Industries and after25 years with them, I started 18 more years with Oxychem. Mr Epps, your home town of Mt. Vernon, MO. is a close neighbor of Clever, MO. where I was born and near Marionville, Mo where I lived through High School.
Again congratulations to all the grads that made the moon project a success.

]]> By: Robert Zagrodzky https://news.mst.edu/2019/07/meet-the-miners-behind-the-moon-landing/#comment-219561 Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:03:50 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=28801#comment-219561 I worked on the S II stage of the launch vehicle at Dr von Braun’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The core people of NASA, Dr Debus who headed Kennedy Space Center, & the head of Johnson Space Center, all worked at MSFC. Dr. von Braun was a pleasure to work for as he would come to the labs and set and talk to people about their work. During 36 years, I worked for many of the people who came from Germany with Dr. von Braun. There were several of us who graduated for Rolla.

]]> By: Hilary Zerr https://news.mst.edu/2019/07/meet-the-miners-behind-the-moon-landing/#comment-219422 Mon, 22 Jul 2019 02:51:25 +0000 https://news.mst.edu/?p=28801#comment-219422 This was an awesome article to read being a Missouri S&T graduate.

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