CoL49 (2): Giants of the aerospace industry [PC 15]

[Robin Landseadel]

	To her left appeared a prolonged scatter of wide, pink buildings,
	surrounded by miles of fence topped with barbed wire and
	interrupted now and then by guard towers: soon an entrance
	whizzed by, two sixty-foot missiles on either side and the name
	YOYODYNE lettered conservatively on each nose cone. This
	was San Narciso's big source of employment, the Galactronics
	Division of Yoyodyne, Inc., one of the giants of the aerospace
	industry. Pierce, she happened to know, had owned a large
	block of shares, had been somehow involved in negotiating an
	understanding with the county tax assessor to lure Yoyodyne
	here in the first place. It was part, he explained, of being a
	founding father.

"Yoyodyne" points to Rocketdyne, one of the giants of the space  
industry during NASA's heyday, developing their company by reverse- 
engineering V-2's and expanding into making rocket engines for ICBM's  
and the sixties space program. Based in Canoga Park in the San  
Fernando Valley, not far from Agoura, CA.

http://tinyurl.com/pjv4wh

	Rocketdyne went on to produce large, liquid-propellant rocket
	engines for guided missiles at a plant in Neosho, Mo., and
	began to study the feasibility of ion propulsion for deep space
	probes. The division also developed the H-1 rocket engines
	and the massive F-1 rocket engine, later used for the Apollo
	program. Rocketdyne's Redstone engine powered the first
	crewed flights for NASA's project Mercury, and a Redstone
	missile made its first successful launch from an inland position
	to an inland target during 1958. . .

	. . .In August 2005, Boeing sold the the Rocketdyne Propulsion
	and Power Division to United Technologies Corp.

http://www.boeing.com/history/bna/rocketdyne.htm

	United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is a diversified
	company whose products include Carrier heating and air
	conditioning, Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace systems and
	industrial products, Otis elevators and escalators, Pratt &
	Whitney aircraft engines, Sikorsky helicopters, UTC Fire &
	Security systems and UTC Power fuel cells.

http://www.utc.com/utc/home.html