Professor Manoug Manougian has dreamed of space exploration ever since he was a child growing up in the West Bank in the 1940s. The Florida-based academic holds an intriguing position in the history of the space race. In 1960, as a 25-year-old maths and physics teacher at Beirut's Haigazian College, he founded an amateur student project to build and launch rockets, which they fashioned out of bits of cardboard and pipe, and powered with home-mixed chemical propellant. Two years later, after…
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