Talk:Milton Rosen

Personal history
Per WP:COI, I should perhaps disclose that I have had some personal contact with Rosen. My earliest connection was through reading The Viking Rocket Story ca 1955, when I was a schoolboy. It fascinated me and deeply impressed me with the myriad difficulties and complexities of successfully flying a large liquid-fueled rocket. I purchased a copy shortly after, which I still own. Many years later, in 1978 after I had completed my education, one of my former college roommates, a mathematician, asked me if I had ever heard of Milton W. Rosen. I reported that I had, whereupon he told me he was about to marry Rosen's daughter, and invited me to the wedding, adding that "The family believes you are the only person ever to read the book unsolicited". At the wedding I first met Rosen, and have had several conversations with him over the years. Most recently he sent me a copy of the original July 1955 NRL proposal to the US DOD, since declassified, which was accepted in September 1955, and was the formal basis of Project Vanguard. Wwheaton (talk) 14:01, 8 October 2009 (UTC)