Heatshield Inventor

-In the late 1950's NACA and the Department of Defense had a problem.- They could not figure out how to make a heat shield for manned spacecraft or ICBMs.- The Air Force used heat-sink metals, especially copper and the Navy, on Polaris, used a beryllium heat sink shield.- The Space Task Group, in March, 1958, were leaning toward the heat sink method.- The Huntsville, Alabama museum for the tested nose cones all show pointed, refractory types.- Then Dr. Nininger, a renowned meteoriticist, revealed to NASA's Julian Allen that meteors that land successfully are blunt and pitted.- Allen claimed this discovery.- Then an unknown potato peeler inventor, Everett Young, disclosed his patented invention for manned reentry to earth.- It used a sandwiched cellular construction with permeable substrate, differential ablation and a vacuum gap.- NASA copied his ideas and used them on Gemini, Apollo, and now Constellation spacecraft heat shields.- Young's family suffered severely as a result of NASA's disregard for the real heat shield inventor and the job promised him.