Any idea of how common the unusually colored motors were? That was about the time I started in rocketry and I don't recall seeing any motors that weren't brown.

-- Roger

Well then, since google is your source for evidentiary truth, I suppose you'd be of the "we never truly went to the moon" sect.:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...oon&btnG=Search

At the time I was living in Miami. Our local hobby shop (Orange Blossom Hobbies) sold motors at a brisk pace, so they didn't linger on the shelves very long. That one summer their motors were all oddly colored, but by late that year or early the next year they were back to ordinary brown motors.

If you were in a smaller community where a vendor's supply of motors didn't sell out quickly, the oddly-colored motors could have come and gone before they ordered their next batch.

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I was in a place where we had to mail order motors. I probably started a few months too late to see the odd-color ones.

As an aside, my parents once drove me 50 miles (each way) to go to a hobby shop to get rocket motors I needed for a science fair project. That was the closest retail place to get them. Later, the Base Exchange at Eglin started stocking model rocketry stuff. But, by then. I had moved 30 miles from the base.

-- Roger

Me, too. I began around 1969 or 1970, so I guess I was in time to see them; never did. In Columbia at that time, we had 5 or 6 places we could buy motors. We bought all our lawn-mowing backs could cover, and I do not remember these green motors at all. I guess I was late, as well, or had a sufficient stockpile of brown ones, that I missed them!
Not that I would have thought to have saved any, anyway....

By 1974, I was distracted hugely by..................GIRLS!
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I was showing examples of people using "CATO" as an acronym.

-- Roger

Green motors... Does that mean Al Gore likes them?

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and I'm showing examples of people who don't believe we truly went to the moon.

In other words, just because you find examples that "some" people believe it , use it, or do it, doesn't make it true, proper, or correct.

Cato, as it is used in rocketry, is not an acronym.

Yes. And "CATO," as used in rocketry is an acronym. It's not a question of "belief." I showed concrete examples of "CATO" being used as an acronym.

And it's not a question of being correct - "CATO"/"cato" is a recently made up word/acronym. It may have originally been an abbreviation of "catostrophe," but most people seem to pronounce it "KAY-TOE" (to rhyme with the way "JATO" is pronounced) and, as the Google search shows, many people treat it as an acronym. So, there's no "correct" or "incorrect" about it.

-- Roger

Cato is NOT an acronym. Never has been. It's an ABBREVIATION for catastrophic failure.

All this acronym crap is an invention of ignorant internet inhabitants.

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