...My Uncle Stan was a physicist for NASA at China Lake Ca....
I cannot imagine that your friend has not heard of my Uncle. I think he was very well known.
I started working at China Lake in 1953. But I was a very young man, and knew only a handful of the workers at the time. Later, I would grow to be more aware of the breadth of work being conducted, and some of the people doing it. I am curious to know the years Uncle Stan spent there. Maybe I can dig up some information.
By the way, anyone working at China Lake at that time would have been as a civilian for the US Navy, not NASA.
The summer of 1955 was when I did my 5th ascent of Mt. Whitney. I didn't record the date, but it was probably sometime in July. Not the 28th, though; that would have been a work day.
Finally, my son was also ten when I first took him to Mt. Whitney, in 1972. We climbed the Mountaineer's Route.
