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This article piqued my interest in Aerojet!

Reading the Wikipedia entry, I was stuck by how the founders list control of their firm, "Unhappily for us, no bank would lend us money; bankers hadn’t yet come to think of rocketry as a stable business."

Interestingly, a tire company acquired majority control!

[codemogul]

So, if you are ever in Miami, you can take a 45 minute drive down to their old facility at the edge of the Everglades in Homestead. Bring/rent a mountain bike because the last 2 miles are closed road. Great place to run.

Even cooler, there is still a test missile in a silo in one of the remaining structures. There is all sorts of interesting rusting hulks out there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerojet#Florida_facility_and_c...

[2] http://www.abandonedfl.com/aerojet-dade/