And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, November 17, 2017
November 17, 1961 – Inside a General Dynamics plant in San Diego where gloriously shiny Atlas rockets were made.
I used to work there. My offices were up 3 floors above what you see, the second floor put in by GD or LockMart and the 3rd by the navy. I used to style myself as "one who worked above rocket scientists." They were still buildling fuel tanks using the old jigs when I worked there. There were 3 of these buildings, this was the last still building space tech for real and they were death about keeping the damned doors closed since bird poop in a rocket is bad for the rocket and may be OK for a satellite radio repair depot (other 2 buildings).
I used to work there. My offices were up 3 floors above what you see, the second floor put in by GD or LockMart and the 3rd by the navy. I used to style myself as "one who worked above rocket scientists." They were still buildling fuel tanks using the old jigs when I worked there. There were 3 of these buildings, this was the last still building space tech for real and they were death about keeping the damned doors closed since bird poop in a rocket is bad for the rocket and may be OK for a satellite radio repair depot (other 2 buildings).
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