[sammyg2]

Interesting side note regarding dad's involvement in the minuteman projects:

in the early 60's he was chosen as part of the team to develop the advanced minutemen design and proposal (MMII).
In that process he came up with a way to use an unconventional design of shape charges for thrust termination, which was 400 pounds lighter than the existing design on the MM.
He was given the green light for development and it proved successful, and his design was adopted by the air force on the MMII and also the Poseidon (C-4) and Trident (D-5) upper stages for the navy.
At that time the Air Force stated that the reduction of weight of upper stages was worth $1 million per pound.