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[edit] Expansion

See references for information that will be useful in expanding this article. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 11:05, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Birth & Death dates?

I ran across an interview article that mentioned Bob Truax being 63 years old in 1981, but so far no obituaries. If he's still alive, he'd be about 90 now. Information, anyone? When I last saw him in the 1980s, he was living in Saratoga, California. —Quicksilver^{T @} 17:51, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eval Knieval accusation

On an episode of The Jim Rome Show, Knieval accused Truax of not only badly engineering his Snake River Canyon stunt motorcycle, he also accused him of being "a know-it-all little b******" and that he designed the Appolo I rocket in such a manner that it "burnt Gus Grissom to death."

High accusation, but I don't known how to put that on the Truax article.--The Saxon 04:58, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't belong in the Truax article. If, and only if it can be verified, it belongs in the Evel Knievel article. Considering the kind of reputation Mr. Knievel has, even if the statement can be verified, it's probably not true anyway, making it tantamount to slander. If you read Truax's biography carefully, you'll see he never worked for NASA, and certainly not for any contractor who designed and built the Command Module for Apollo. His rocketry career was mostly in the U.S. Navy, making Knievel's claim all the more dubious. By the way, the name is not spelled "Eval Knieval". Gus Grissom died in the Apollo 1 disaster, not Appolo I. —Quicksilver^{T @} 18:37, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Put more simply: Truax had nothing to do with Apollo. This statement is simply wrong. Maury 19:31, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Don't be so personal about it, Quicksilver. Your points were totally reasonable. Such mean-spiritedness is just uncalled for. I did consider the accusation to be of interest. At the very least what Knieval thought about Truax notable. The outrage over a simple suggestion is what makes Wikipedia less fun than it used to be.--The Saxon 03:05, 20 May 2007 (UTC)