These 'subjects' were offered $60 for their services, and an additional $60 if the 'subjects' would allow themselves to be disassembled and then reassembled in the name of science.
As a result, the company could no longer afford to hire astronauts and soldiers for testing, and instead resorted to collecting homeless people from the street. Later in 1968, Aperture was declared bankrupt. Senate hearings regarding astronauts going missing after their participation in testing. In 1968, Aperture Science was involved in U.S. In 1961, Johnson ordered the lower areas of Test Shaft 09 to be sealed off to hide the highly unethical experiments Aperture had been conducting. Financial troublesīy the 1960s, Aperture's financial boom period had passed, and with countless products stuck in the testing phase, as well as many being pulled from shelves for violating health and safety regulations, Aperture was beginning to struggle. By this time, Aperture was in the process of developing the Quantum Tunneling Device, and various prototypes were utilized in the many test chambers rapidly constructed in Test Shaft 09 and beyond. Johnson was aided by his assistant Caroline during this time, who remained loyal to him for decades to come. Within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, Johnson took an active role in the company's testing of products, making voice announcements and pre-recorded messages to address Test Subjects, that consisted of specially selected astronauts, Olympian athletes, and war heroes. Although Johnson was well known for his unorthodox approach to science, Aperture Science received an award for Best New Science Company in 1947.īy the 1950s, Aperture Science was prospering. In 1947 Johnson renamed the company "Aperture Science" and began to focus on experimental physics as a new direction for the company. Johnson's early achievements on display in the lobby of Aperture Science. The main Aperture Fixtures facility was constructed within the underground caverns.
Making use of his new wealth, in 1944 Johnson purchased a huge salt mine in Upper Michigan, whose tunnels extended over four kilometers below the surface. Much of Johnson's early success came from Aperture Fixtures, and with the company developing high-tech shower curtains for most branches of the United States military as well as the public, Johnson soon became a billionaire. Having his father's theories as the backbone, in 1943 he founded Aperture Fixtures, a shower curtain developer and manufacturer. In his youth, Cave Johnson became a successful business entrepreneur. Cave's father was a farming professor at the institute of farming although he never farmed a day in his life.