The book, according to everybody on this thread that has read it, is / was very interesting reading and maybe it was (is).
I worked on the Saturn Apollo program, the Atlas ICBM, several communication satellite programs, two sounding rocket programs and I developed the On Orbit Maintenance Program for the European Space Station. If I proposed any thing that has been discussed on this thread to my superiors I would have been tarred and feathered and run off.
