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Fifty years ago the nation was shaken by the news that our Cold War enemy, the Soviet Union, had beaten us to space with Sputnik. The US launched a massive catch-up effort and the focus was on Cape Canaveral. What happened there in the early 1960s shaped the military and civilian technology and profoundly changed our world.

This is an inside look at being on the Cape and working on the systems that helped win the Cold War, vignettes of the day-to-day issues of living and working on the edge of the future including the dilemma of simultaneously working downrange to missile test schedules and trying to get married.

Technology is always there but usually treated lightly as converting a radar into a popcorn popper ten years before the microwave oven.