| Description | Is sending a proposal for a letter to Kantrowitz, who is to be a Messenger Lecturer
Kantrowitz was a professor at Cornell in Aeronautical Engineering (later called Aerospace) and made great contributions to the technology or re-entry of space vehicles into the atmosphere. This was a major step at the time of the 'missile gap' in the midfifties. He then left Cornell and became a director of AVCO, to run a large research laboratory in Boston, which at the time of writing this letter he is still doing. |