re: So-called "moon landing"

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Just tell us something you observed that would be neat or interesting when you were working around them or the equipment.

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The first guy I worked under was very much a German war immigrant, though he was somewhat younger than Von Braun and the others. He showed us his papers from his youth - Nazi stamps all over them. Having said that, do not give the German scientists too much credit. There were fewer than 100 of them, vs around 400,000 engineers and scientists that worked on Apollo.

In one of the warehouse visits, we found an Apollo-era spherical tank, perhaps 18" in diameter. It was stenciled "5000 psi". It was light as a feather, and seamless as far as we could tell. We believed it was explosively formed titanium. Exotic stuff.