[net.columbia] Modern Rocketry

inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) (03/30/84)

+ <take and eat of this all of you, for this is my body> +

My father worked for the Air Force Ballistic Missiles Division in Los
Angeles in the early '60s and brought this (supposedly true) story home one
evening:

RocketDyne and Jet Propulsion Laboratories had adjacent test facilities, and
one day JPL was testing a rocket engine that came loose from its mountings
and careened over into the Rocketdyne facility. Fortunately, noone was hurt,
and there was very little damage. The next morning, the President of
RocketDyne had a terse telegram on his desk from the President of JPL:

	      "If there are any further such acts of aggression we
	       shall be forced to retaliate."


Hail Columbia!

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