Tetra said:
"We came for the lack of atmosphere & stayed for the velcro" my father was a major ass, but was one of the guys that designed the guidance system, and when the Hubble was blind I new why the defective mirror in the telescope was originaly mocked up in the basement of house with balloons, sand , and paper mache , until they did it in our basement they thought it couldn't be done , it was to large a task ,my dad was always the geek willing to try anything , and he was actualy very intelligent with no formal education beyond the 8th grade, there are things you probably touched today that he patented , and then sold the patents to companies like Morton Thiokol,Perkin Elmer and countless others as well as consulted for them , for other reasons he is in the Sminthosian and the Museum of natural history,his hobby was rock hunting & the family spent countless hours chiseling away at a previously thought garbage limestone face, nothing of any signifigance had ever been found in that area but limestone ,Galeena, and Mica. ,as a scientist he was amazing , as a father he really sucked (I have no blood related family maternal or paternal that will have anything to do with me because he was my father , that's a pretty harsh judgement when your a kid ,but i had nothing to do with him beyond just after 12 birthday)anyway it was from his work that i got the bug for space, much of his work is still classified ,I was 5 when I got my first security clearance, all three of us had to have clearance as soon as we learned the alphabet because a majority of his work was done at home , he went to the "office" maybe once a week, And we took trips to places that everyday familes didnt go to intentionaly White Sands, Alamogordo,Trinity site ,I went to "area 51" before I had any idea that was "signifigant". Well your dad led the way for mine then because mine started with NASA about '73.
Was your dad on the job when Apollo 1 prime went down ?or did he come on after .
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Yes he was there when the Apollo crew lost their lives on launch pad two if I remember correctly.
He always thought it was awful stupid having it in a hundred percent oxygen environment which was contributed to the accident.
After my dad was out of the Air Force he went to work for Martin Marietta engine testing division.
Then he put the Titan 2 missiles in the silos in South Dakota and Arizona the Minutemen nuclear defense. Then was on to Nasa he worked on the launch crew
As you see on the movie Apollo 13 when the people switch seats he was part of launch crew and then after they were in Flight than the flight crew took over.
He would be there late at night charging the batteries on the Saturn V.
Once as a kid he was trying to impress my uncle so I got to get a tour of the Space Center where people normally don't get to go.
He was very much intelligent but like your dad he wasn't worth a crap as a dad.
He went to Chase and skirts it when I was 10 he skipped out on my mom and my sister.
Never paid support to us mom did it on her own bringing up two kids.
He passed away 7 years ago we were estranged we hadn't talked to each other for years.
But yes I have the space bug all our toys were space toys back then spaceships rockets and that was during the time of Lost in Space on TV I was the age of Will Robinson.
I remember wanting to stay up to see Star Trek and that was during its first runs.
I'm very smart but I wasn't writing smart so that's why I never went anywhere.
But again we were supposed to be vacationing on a space station where supposed to be on the Moon by now we were supposed to be exploring space.
We got so much good off the spin-offs from the space program the technology to go into space we can use here the stuff we're going to go to Mars with.
Will help us feed thousands or Millions just that technology alone the surgical clean rooms came from the space program because you couldn't have contaminants on Space equipment.
Bad thing is some say it's a waste of money .
The epoxies the glues the thing to build Rockets helps us in our technology today also.
Lol and Tang did not taste half bad either make some mean spice tea.
