It was 1964, and i was still a teen-ager in Rocket City, USA.......I watched our neighbor, Werner, doing his morning walk past our house on Big Cove Road......After my freshman year at Vandy, i got a job in Building 4200 and was given a NASA "Secret" security clearance so that i could deliver documents to him.......many of my friends' fathers worked on projects that were beginning to emerge into sights of "regular" people........When i asked him, years before this, what he did, he showed me a model of a white space station that he had designed with his friend Willy Ley......later, i saw a fancy version of it in "2001, A Space Odyssey"....I thought NASA was the good guy and ABMA was the bad guy......what a whore i was, however; for the next summer i punched Spam cards for an ABMA War Games Computer.......the job paid 50% more........!
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