Saturday, June 29, 2013

Look what showed up in the Bradbury Museum in Los Alamos. I honor my late father A.J. Klapetzky

If you would, please kindly allow me this one time, to deviate from the market. This is BEAR, as it was leaving Los Alamos National Laboratory on its way to White Sands Missile Range. It is now I understand at the Bradbury Museum back home in Los Alamos.  It was shot into space, tested and recovered.  A "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative project from Los Alamos National Laboratory.  At its core is a  particle beam device that I watched my father tinker with in his Lab at LAMPF, and eventually get to work- to everyone's surprise. He was deservedly proud of this accomplishment, and I of him.  Never thought I'd be able to talk about it. Strange coincidence that I found this out the same day I found out that Voyager 1 is about to leave our Solar System.  Data from Voyager was what I was looking at as an 17 year old intern in the Astrophysics division at LANL at the same time (1984).  A cosmic yin yang it seems.  73-s Dad.