David Spain wrote:
Pat,

You seems to have enough source material and knowledge to be
able to write a decent history of rocketry both civilian and
military from 1950-1970.

That plus your frequency of posting here, indicates to me you
have the type of job that would affoard you plenty of time on
your own to write one.

Consider yourself petitioned to do so...

It's already been done; in fact there's one that goes back to 360 BC:
http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machines.../dp/0894640399
When not being read, its weight makes it useful as a doorstop.
I've been posting so much as I've been hobbling around recovering from
my leg surgery earlier this month, when a infected subcutaneous
haematoma had to be removed, leaving a hole in my calf that looks for
all the world like a bullet hole, and goes around an inch into the leg.
Given that this is the same leg that needed the big toe amputated a
couple of years back when it went gangrenous, I can see a new career as
a pirate off of Somalia in the not-too-distant future under the name
Peg-Leg Pat.

Pat