Fred Chamberlain began his life at Fort Monroe, Virginia in 1935, shortly before World War II, when searchlights and listening horns were used to search for enemy aircraft in the skies. In 1958, after an education in electrical engineering, he first served as Electrical Division Officer aboard the USS Saratoga (CVA-60) and then spent five years in Navy bomb and nuclear weapons disposal, then transferring to the Air Force and performing R&D on optical fusing for hypervelocity reentry vehicles. After that, he spent ten+ years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with project team responsibilities in...