Hobby or obsession?

[blue]

THats just dang cool!! My friends dad got to work with the real Blackbird.

Forty years ago when I worked for NASA

Did you work on the Space Shuttle developement?

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Did you work on the Space Shuttle developement?

I was pre shuttle,1964-1970. I worked on the Saturn 5 and Apollo Telescope Mount. I worked in the NASA Astronics lab in Huntsville Alabama that qualified all the telemetry used on the Saturn 5. I later qualified the Saturn telemetry for deep space flight. The most difficult environment that it had to withstand was neutron bombardment. I spent 6 weeks at the Lockheed Neutron reactors in Gainsville,Ga testing all the telemetry. I had to build in redundancy so I could determine the order of systems failure.