the navy station at lakehurst has a long history of working with giant balloons.r for the hindenburg. milt says this is where his father dwight worked on theecho ii balloon. the balloon was right there. milt tells me that his father worked for a nasa subcontractor. that's why the space agency had no record of dwight. okay, so he worked for westinghouse. yes, uh-huh. look at this letter. tell me if it looks like your dad's handwriting, something he would've written? oh, yeah, he always printed. he always printed? always printed. and do you remember what his call number was? w3hnt. that was william three husky nasty tiger. milt shows me his father's knife with the call sign burnished into the side. well, he was known as "antenna doc." antenna doc? yeah. milt explains that nasa contracted westinghouse to conduct a series of tests on theecho ii balloons here at lakehurst. one of the final tests was the burst test. there had been an explosion, but it hadn't been in space. the technical term is a static inflation test. a balloon is literally filled with gas until it bur