If you love history, you will be fascinated by this story about a stubborn meteorologist who made the crucial forecast for the launch of the first US satellite in January 1958 following the flight of the USSR’s Sputnik in late 1957 . They could not afford to get the launch wrong and depended on him to get the satellite into space. You can read the story at Daily Press at https://www.dailypress.com/os-bz-john-meisenheimer-profile-20190124-story.html.
