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NASA-Led Program Provided Young African Americans Career Training

11 Feb 2021, 16:00 GMT By Robert S. Arrighi

“Good education contains something for the mind, the body, and the spirit,” declared Abe Silverstein, director of NASA’s Lewis Research Center in August 1967. The center had just commenced a three-week training program to prepare young African American men for local apprenticeships in the construction trades. Reflecting Silverstein’s philosophy, this Pre-Apprentice Program provided not only

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Armstrong Test Facility Nasa History

A Road Trip for a Rocket

31 Jul 2020, 11:01 GMT By Robert S. Arrighi

General Dynamics delivered one of its Atlas rockets to Plum Brook Station (today, Armstrong Test Facility) on July 31, 1963 for a series of structural tests in the Dynamics Stand. The company created a special 64-foot long trailer to transport the missile from its plant in San Diego to Ohio. The journey required a police escort

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