r the first time, about his career, which began as a mem=er of first hired group of physicists at NASA in 1958 (to work on Project =ercury alongside Alan Shepard and John Glenn) and his work as one of the l=gendary "MAD scientists of MPD" in using plasma physics to=provide the rocket thrust to achieve reliab

r the =irst time, about his career, which began as a member of first hired =roup of physicists at NASA in 1958 (to work on Project Mercury =longside Alan Shepard and John Glenn) and his work as one of the =egendary "MAD scientists of MPD" in using plasma =hysics to provide the rocket thrust to achieve reliabl