Selected Articles from
the December 2002
Odyssey

Editor: Kris Cerone

Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmidt taking questions at Apollo 17 Anniversary banquet. Photograph courtey Steve Bartlett.

Getting There

The December 2002 edition of the Odyssey tells stories about rockets and the people who pioneered them. In his President's Message, Steve Bartlett tells of his experience witnessing a test firing of a Minuteman missile from Vandenberg AFB. Robert Gounley reports on a gathering of space pioneers at a banquet celebrating the anniversary of Apollo 17. Finally, we have a report on a talk about building follow-on launch vehicles and how hard it really is.

Table of Contents

• President's Message, by Steve Bartlett
• Happy Anniversary, Apollo 17, by Robert Gounley
• RLV's Are HARD To Do!, Part 2, by Steve Bartlett

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