[rouxroux]

Yes sir, as well as most of his team. We were not on a "first name basis", but I talked with him many times when I was young. Like I said, at that time in Huntsville, most of your neighbors WERE rocket scientists. When we moved to HSV in '59 we had to live in a Holiday Inn by the old airport while our house was being built. Many folks had to do that as there were NO houses available. The town grew so fast that it did not "catch up with the boom" until the mid-60's. I lived there until 1975