Return to the Little Kingdom
Return to the Little Kingdom
“As the missile division grew during the late fifties it changed the scale of business in the Santa Clara Valley, more or less turned Sunnyvale into a company town, and helped propel the community toward the fringes of mystery. Lockheed came to be talked about as a place where the subjects of science fiction had been reduced to everyday occupations. Lockheed was woven into the weft of the national space program and, in Sunnyvale, aspects of Discoverer, Explorer, Mercury, and Gemini came to be as... familiar as the names of some of the astronauts. It would have been easy to believe that H.G. Wells worked in Lockheed’s public-relations department, batting out bulletins on a never-ending source of marvels.
There were rumors of a laboratory that would simulate conditions in space, of a tape recorder small enough to be held in the palm of the hand, and of “Hotshot,” the strongest wind tunnel in private industry. Teams of Lockheed engineers were investigating a special fuel cell to power spacecraft, and were drawing up plans for a prefabricated, four-hundred-ton manned space platform shaped like the wheel of fortune.MoreLess
There were rumors of a laboratory that would simulate conditions in space, of a tape recorder small enough to be held in the palm of the hand, and of “Hotshot,” the strongest wind tunnel in private industry. Teams of Lockheed engineers were investigating a special fuel cell to power spacecraft, and were drawing up plans for a prefabricated, four-hundred-ton manned space platform shaped like the wheel of fortune.MoreLess
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