[Spridgets] Rocket scientists

[Robert Duquette]

No big argument here.  I was just saying what I (mis?)heard on the news.  I
didn't record it so I can't verify.  ( I wasn't that interested.  I'm not an
engineer! )

 

Everything that I found in print on the web stated that it was built in the
US but on a Canadian site it says that it was a Canadian's design.  ( quoted
below. )  Doesn't matter to me one way or the other.

 

  _____  

From: Jim Johnson [mailto:bmwwxman at gmail.com] 
Sent: July 21, 2009 4:51 PM
To: robertduquette at sympatico.ca
Cc: Spridgets
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Rocket scientists

 

RD,

I think you'll find that Owen was one of the engineers on the team at
Grumman Aerospace, Bethpage, NY (its on Long Island).  The craft was
designed and built by the team at Grumman.  All the LEMs were built there.
Sorry to burst your Maple Leaf bubble....

Guy that worked with my Dad was on the team.....

See:
http://tinyurl.com/nn2vxa

Cheers!!
Jim

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:44 PM, <robertduquette at sympatico.ca> wrote:

Well, I heard on our news this morning that the 'landing craft' was designed
in Ontario.  It's not April 1st, is it?  :)



Maybe I heard it wrong though.  It was 5:30 am!  :)  Maybe it was an
engineer
"from" Ontario?



http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/defencewatch/archive/2009/
0
<http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/defencewatch/archive/2009
/0%0A7/19/avro-arrow-engineers-and-canadian-contributions-to-apollo-moon-lan
ding-h> 
7/19/avro-arrow-engineers-and-canadian-contributions-to-apollo-moon-landing-
h
ighlighted.aspx

"Hear for the first time in 40 years Canadian Owen Maynard, former Head of
NASA s Lunar
Module Program and Avro Arrow Engineer discuss his design of the Apollo
Lunar
Module"








> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:13:03 -0700
> From: soavero at yahoo.com
> To: spridgets at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Rocket scientists

>
> --- On Tue, 7/21/09, robertduquette at sympatico.ca
> > 11 landing craft was
> > designed in Ontario, so maybe he was involved in that too?
>
> Lunar Module was designed and built in Bethpage NY.
>
> Ron