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Topic: Kurt Stehling Rocket Pioneer
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Joe Frasketi Member Posts: 191 From: Florida USA Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 10-13-2006 07:48 PM
Can anyone provide a link to a biography of Stehling, or provide more detailed info. There is just bits and pieces on him seaching in google.My limited info. is that Dr. Stehling, an american rocket pioneer, was a senior science official on the U.S. Vanguard satellite/launch vehicle. An all around genius in developing new launch vehicle concepts and earth satellite applications. He worked on the X-1 and X-2 rocket aeroplanes, and did pioneer rocket engine work at Bell Aircraft Corp. in Buffalo NY 1950-55). He is quit an author too.
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art540 Member Posts: 432 From: Orange, California USA Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 10-16-2006 08:09 PM
If you can ever find the book Project Vanguard published in 1960 you will enjoy an element of Stehling's writing style that is so sadly missing today.Art |
Joe Frasketi Member Posts: 191 From: Florida USA Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 10-17-2006 09:43 PM
Thanx Art: I will try to find that book, the first place I otto look is the packing box of space books I have in storage! I was hoping for some info. on the web. I will keep my hopes up on this. Joe Frasketi http://www.spacecovers.com/ |
art540 Member Posts: 432 From: Orange, California USA Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 10-21-2006 09:41 AM
Joe: I will keep my eye open for Stehling information. He worked on one of my favorite prgrams: Vanguard. Do you have any stories or iamges of your tenure in the tracking aspects of the AMR/ETR missile range? I would like to add to my knowledge of that subject which is mostly the National Geographic article about 1959. Art
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Joe Frasketi Member Posts: 191 From: Florida USA Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 10-21-2006 10:28 AM
Hi Art: I mentioned my website to you in a different thread, dont know if you accessed this URL page below tho, as its buried in my personal page, but its a source of info. about early days downrange life with some pictures: http://spacecovers.com/jpers/zjp_emp_rca_etr_rangerat01.htm you might also find this webpage of interest, about what life was like in the early days downrange: http://www.jerryblackerby.com/pioneering_downrange.htm written by one of my range rat friends. Joe |
art540 Member Posts: 432 From: Orange, California USA Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 10-21-2006 11:14 AM
Joe: thanks for the article. I did visit your site and was thrown by the under construction note! I will keep my eye open for aticles. I knew about RCA but until I saw a Chuck Rogers image of a truck at LC-18A I never knew the full name was RCA Service Company. There are several of us amateur historians interested in the early days so you do have an audience beyond the range rats members for your site.Art |