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Old 04-14-2007, 02:14 PM
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The Chronicles of G. Harry Stine would consist of the following sections/chapters:

Would you be interested in such a book?
All of the above would be on an indexed and searchable cdrom .

Terry,

I think this would be a great idea. I know I'd be interested in a copy should it come to fruition.

Launch magazine will have a story about G. Harry Stine in their upcoming issue. It's an interview that Bob Craddock had with Harry a few months before he died. Mark Mayfield sent me a copy of the story that will be printed. In it Harry talks about such things as how he met Orville Carlisle, starting the MMI company and the NAR, what led to the downfall of MMI, and how he worked at getting model rocketry legalized in the US. There's a lot of other great info in there as well, including his lament of not going to Vern Estes right after he left MMI so he and Vern could work together. This article alone with the accompanying pictures is well worth buying the magazine. Watch for it at a newsstand near you!
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Old 04-19-2007, 07:52 PM
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scott:

must be nice to be on the inside.

I'm really looking forward to this article myself, to see what G.Harry had to say.
I'm sure it will be very revealing.


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Old 04-22-2007, 07:34 PM
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Default The Chronicals of G Harry Stine

Yes, Yes, and Yes.

I would definitely read this book. I am actually in the middle of reading one of his early books about satellites dated 1957 at the present time.
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Old 04-22-2007, 07:41 PM
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scott:

must be nice to be on the inside.

I'm really looking forward to this article myself, to see what G.Harry had to say.
I'm sure it will be very revealing.

Heh, I wouldn't say I'm on the inside. More like I rub Mark's back and he rubs mine.

Although, if I'm ever in NY I'm going to give Mark a call to see if I can get a tour of his office in the Empire State Building. Then I can say I was on the "inside."
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Terry,

I'd be interested in a copy of the book.

Let me know if you need a proofreader,

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I hope you don't mind me using this thread for a quick Stine question:

In the Epilogue of The Handbook, it says "Don't pay back, pay forward. That's been the basis for the rise of civilization for a hundred centuries.". I was wondering if these were G. Harry's or Bill's words... I suppose it would be easy to answer for anyone who has a pre-Bill copy. BTW, what was the last G. Harry only edition? Thanks in advance!
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Old 04-25-2007, 02:27 PM
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The 6th edition was the "last" GH Stine version; the Bill Stine version is the 7th edition

http://cgi.ebay.com/HANDBOOK-OF-MOD...1QQcmdZViewItem


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Old 04-25-2007, 02:32 PM
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historical photo interpretation:


For those who have looked at the 1st page of "the Last Interview"...


Notice the bottom right photo?

Notice the car? Its a "woody" station wagon it appears.

Can anybody ID the vehicle any further? the picture is from March 24, 1957.

tia

Heres some "historical" backstory on the picture:


Also anybody notice the name "Tombaugh" . Clyde Tombaugh was the guy that discovered the ex-planet "Pluto"; this was his son Alden . G. Harry Stine, while he was in college at Colorado College in Colorado Spings, CO, travelled to WSPG to meet Clyde Tombaugh. It seems that Tombaugh was in charge of the optical photography systems that tracked WSPG missles. Its my understanding that G. Harry had a job waiting for him at WSPG once he graduated from Colorado College with a BA in Physics in May 1952. Both Tombaugh and G.Harry Stine died in 1997.



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I hope you don't mind me using this thread for a quick Stine question:

In the Epilogue of The Handbook, it says "Don't pay back, pay forward. That's been the basis for the rise of civilization for a hundred centuries.". I was wondering if these were G. Harry's or Bill's words... I suppose it would be easy to answer for anyone who has a pre-Bill copy. BTW, what was the last G. Harry only edition? Thanks in advance!


I *think* it was in the first edition way back in '65. My copy is in a box in the trunk of my car at the moment. I'll fish it out and confirm it. In any case, it is definitely a Harry quote.
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Old 04-25-2007, 02:59 PM
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My '65 Epilouge is differnt from that quoted..

but in the Foreword it states:

Once I asked one of these men what I could do to repay him. "Do the same for others when you grow up," he told me. In the Space Age Hobby of model rocketry, I have found a way to do this.

sounds like pay forward to me?

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