"Rocket Girl" BBC On Mary Sherman Morgan (1921-2004)

There's a book out there called "Rocket Girl" a biography of rocket fuel
expert Mary Sherman Morgan of North American Aviation written by one of
her sons. An article and video was posted on the BBC today about both
her and the book here at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23349135

Wikipedia article about her he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sherman_Morgan

Wonder if John D. Clark (1907-1988) knew her?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Clark

Dave

PS: Another North Dakotan. Too bad born way before Pat's time! They'd
probably gotten along quite well! :-D

"David Spain" wrote in message
...

There's a book out there called "Rocket Girl" a biography of rocket fuel
expert Mary Sherman Morgan of North American Aviation written by one of her
sons. An article and video was posted on the BBC today about both her and
the book here at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23349135

Wikipedia article about her he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sherman_Morgan


Pretty cool history.


Wonder if John D. Clark (1907-1988) knew her?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Clark

Dave

PS: Another North Dakotan. Too bad born way before Pat's time! They'd
probably gotten along quite well! :-D



Who knows, perhaps they knew each other. :-)



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On 7/22/2013 8:51 AM, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote:
"David Spain" wrote in message
...

There's a book out there called "Rocket Girl" a biography of rocket
fuel expert Mary Sherman Morgan of North American Aviation written by
one of her sons. An article and video was posted on the BBC today
about both her and the book here at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23349135

Wikipedia article about her he

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sherman_Morgan


Pretty cool history.


Wonder if John D. Clark (1907-1988) knew her?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Clark

Dave

PS: Another North Dakotan. Too bad born way before Pat's time! They'd
probably gotten along quite well! :-D



Who knows, perhaps they knew each other. :-)




"They" being John & Mary or Pat & Mary?

John & Mary
Going back through the book "Ignition!" I find references to Hydyne (aka
Bagel!) but no mention of Mary Sherman-Morgan. Too bad...

Ah the halcyon days of the 40's & 50's, where rocket science was a bit
of trial-and-error, guts and glory... Besides just dry theory and
computer simulation. But then I'm probably just a hopeless & delusional
romantic. :-)

Pat & Mary
Well, she was literally old enough to be his mother! Ohhh. Hey that'd
explain a lot.... ;-)