Re: Albert Ducrocq has died
Apparently, he was sent to the Soviet union, just before Sputnik, for a conference on robot (or something like that) and when he learned about the first satellite, returning back in France, he reported about all he could know and became passionately interested about space. He sort of inadvertendly became a journalist about space. And, thanks to his connections, knew really a lot about the Soviet space program.
Raoul