ION PROPULSION ANECDOTE
I really enjoyed the ion propulsion article “Blue Light Special” (AW&ST July 2, p. 56). The feasibility of ion propulsion was first presented at the IRE annual convention in 1953 by Francis J. Murray, a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. He and I were on an American Airlines Convair...
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