then went to work for then naka, he forerunner to nasa, the ational affiliate, the group group that preceded it. he was first assigned to lewis center in cleveland. were working on some of the difficult daunting problems that space travel posed. the 'd gotten in really at front door on space. wo of the things they were looking at it, lewis, that -- metalogy. it rder to get into space, was obvious you needed a medal that didn't exist at that time. tolerate a metal to the enormous temperatures and space and going into returning would involve. the other thing interestingly at lewis was an investigation into energy to travel to interspace. it was thought that atomic be the only thing probably that would be powerful it.gh to do so that was considered very seriously in the years in the '50s. recruited after about a year and half, two years at lewis, to then go to where he wanted to go, where all fliers who wanted to do things moon which goes lancaster, california where the high-speed drive and test center was. tests where the real were being made in the air. go into space. able to fly several of t