| I worked for North-American Rockwell (Downey Ca.) which is where the capsule was built for the first moon landing. It was my first decent job after highschool, I worked in the quality control inspection department and we x-rayed the weilded areas to insure they were well bonded. After the moon landing and following the splash down we had to re-inspect the capsule to see how good it held up during the mission, stress wise.
The thing was very burned looking when we re-inspected it due to re-entry. After that they laid all of us off, apparently the idea was to "beat the Russians" to the moon as part of the cold-war phychology. Point is, they might not have spent money on re-inspecting the capsule if the whole mission was a movie made at Area 51. |