Comments on: Max Ary, innocent until proven guilty

By: digital guerrilla » Blog Archive » Max Ary, guilty but still innocent

digital guerrilla » Blog Archive » Max Ary, guilty but still innocent — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:04:19 +0000

[...] Quite a while back I wrote about Max Ary, co-founder and former president of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center being indicted on 17 counts of fraud, theft, and money laundering. [...]

By: SUZETTE

SUZETTE — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:04:04 +0000

I JUS TWNATED TO THANK YOU FOR SUCH A GREAT ARTCILE ON A MAN I TO SEE AS A TRUE SPIRIT FOR THE SPACE PROGRAM HISTORY. I HAVE WORKED FOR MAX ARY FOR 2 YEARS NOW, HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AMAZING HISTORICAL INFORMATION I WOULD NOT HAVE GAINED OTHERWISE. SO THANKS YOU TO BELIEVERS LIKE MAX ARY.

By: Lonnie Burk

Lonnie Burk — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:31:51 +0000

I, too, went to the KSCS from 1995 to 1997. I was a volunteer working the weekends to assist Boy Scouts with understanding rocketry, building and launching a model rocket. I did work on Dr. Goddard’s Lab, the planetarium, and the museum itself. I helped with the teardown and securing of the museum artifacts from the old museum to the new museum. I helped build the Space Shuttle simulator and assisted on fixing the old Link Trainer that I called (The Vomit Cube).

I, too, am very suprised that Max Ary would do such a thing, but then I got to know him better than you in my work there. There was times then that he would be downstairs with us near the storage area of non-shown pieces and I would here him say that with-in these walls was a gold mine of treasure. He seemed very proud, maybe too proud, of his collection. I think he was starting down the path of securing for a good retirement. I also got the impression in 1997 that he was not happy with the way he was not getting what he felt was his worth at the KSCS. So to answer your question “If he could do this?”, yes, I think he did!

By the way, who are you? I ran into this article through a thread from a search on Max Ary.