Re:NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer...
by nickff on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:03AM
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Dryden was much more important to NASA than Armstrong was. Armstrong was lucky to be assigned Apollo 11; he was not the best test pilot (having crashed an X-15 due to his own recklessness).
If they were going to pick people who greatly contributed to the success of the Apollo program, they should have picked Houbolt.
Re:NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer...
by justin66 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:36AM
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If only Armstrong had accomplished something that made up for overshooting the runway and scraping the paint on the bottom of an experimental aircraft, perhaps then he'd be worthy of having a building at Edwards named after him. I cannot imagine what sort of act might erase the stain of that kind of universal infamy.
(he is a particularly bad exemplar of the point you are trying to make)