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Friday, July 19, 2019
Vol. 4, No. 29
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Panel blasts Sater
Spokesman said he didn’t comply BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Felix Sater, a former Sands Point resident and ex-associate of Donald Trump, testified before the House intelligence committee last week after several postponements. After his closed-door testimony, however, the committee issued a rare statement saying that Sater did not fully comply as he had told multiple news outlets. Patrick Boland, the committee spokesman, said Sater did not fully PHOTO BY JESSICA PARKS cooperate with the committee and is to remain under subpoena until Bart Cosolito, a Port Washington resident and former Grumman engineer, recollects his experience on the Apollo program. he does so. He said that Sater did not produce the documents requested and avoided responding to questions on a statement provided by Trump’s former attorney, Michael D. Cohen, citing “attorney-client privilege,” according to Reuters. Sater was questioned about his knowledge of the proposed But, he was one of a much Department until one day his worked with about 10,000 engiB Y J E S S I C A PA R K S Trump Tower Moscow. Cohen smaller pool of people who could supervisor asked if he would be neering, assembly and test peroriginally testified that negotiainterested in a new project with sonnel at the height of the Apollo Fifty years ago, Bart Cosolito say they helped it get there. tions had come to a halt in January program. Cosolito of Port Washington NASA. 2016, but later acknowledged that was one of 500 million people They built close to 20 lunar Once he heard the details was employed as a quality assurto watch Apollo 11 land on the they continued until June 2016, ance engineer on the lunar mod- of the project – building a lunar modules over the course of the Continued on Page 69 moon’s surface. ule program at Grumman module that would fly astronauts program, Cosolito said. Grumman Aerospace Corp. in Bethpage to and from the moon – Cosolito built the structure of the module, for the better part of his 30s. said his response was “a resound- while subcontractors produced most of its components. He began as an engineer ing yes.” His responsibility was to enHe said he was then transin Grumman’s Manufacturing Research and Development ferred to plant 15, where he Continued on Page 71
Port resident recalls moon landing Bart Cosolito served as a Grumman engineer during the Apollo program
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