Norman Mailer Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: January 31, 1923 - November 10, 2007
Birthday: January 31
Death: November 10
Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.
topic: Opportunity, Simple, Blood, Debacles, Firing
