6/11/2023 0 Comments A colder war stross![]() he lost his will to live when JPL wouldn't let him continue to work on missions and trajectories, with a friends reading to him what was on the computer screen. Our last hour together, we discussed the space program we had versus the one that we deserved, and favorite comic books.ĭiabetes notwithstanding, I believe that he died of a broken heart. ![]() He loved figuring out real spacecraft trajectories - in his head! - as well as Science Fiction (famously the origin of the Alderson drive in Niven and Pournelle's fiction, and the Alderson Disk, which grew out his high school science fair project). I spent time with him even as diabetes blinded him, then led to amputations. It was he who got me to stop merely visiting LASFS, but become a member. Dan and I were friends, both at JPL and beyond. ![]() ![]() I am especially touched by by the Dan Alderson references. ![]()
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