Sitting in his Coeur d’Alene home, retired engineer and technical writer Vern Westgate holds the Apollo manual which he wrote, as he talks about his experience working for North American Aviation.
January 24, 2017
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COEUR d’ALENE — Gazing into an operations manual, its edges beginning to yellow with age, Vern Westgate remembered his astronaut friends Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.