1945, boy in rocket

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

To the one who asked: No, I wasn't joking. And yes, I did answer Laura 
Kelber's request offlist.
Well, actually I rarely joke when it comes to facts. And since I 
remembered the title of of my
old mail correctly and also cited it correctly, the list's archives - 
despite all their inherent vice -
spat it out immediately. But hey, I have time like sand on the strand, 
and here's an article from
wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Sieber

The more I think about it, the more I think that Pynchon knew about this from his Boeing sources
and did not really invent the boy in the rocket.

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>  http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0210&msg=71548&keywords=fly%20me%20to%20the%20moon%20rainbow%20files
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>  Have not the time today to go into further research, put perhaps my
>  original mail from 2002 (yes, it's time that's flying ...) with its
>  reference to Stanford will help. Guess you can also find the article in
>  the "Spiegel"'s digital archive and perhaps there's by now either a
>  translation of the book mentioned or a similar text in English. While
>  we're at it: The mail's "outtakes" are of course "excerpts".
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