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my name is James Ness I currently work

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for a pratt whitney rocketdyne in a

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space shuttle main engine program as a

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launch systems engineer I guess the best

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memory I have was when I work with one

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of the previous contractors I was

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involved in all five of Atlantis DoD

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missions working conjunction with Boeing

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in the Air Force as a test conductor for

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all the military bay loads it allowed me

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an opportunity to travel all around the

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country to special sites to look at the

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hardware and the instruments and to

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watch the classified payloads come

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together prior to launch and then was a

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select group that was involved in their

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processing before flight on Atlantis I

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thought it was exciting i mean i've been

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here since 1979 so it's been a

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tremendous career with four different

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companies it's offered an awful lot of

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opportunity working with the astronauts

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and the different contractor nasa teams

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and watch the different astronauts the

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flight crews the specialists coming

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through here working side by side has

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just been a tremendous experience that i

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hate to see in here in the near future i

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just picked a spot and decided to sign

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it I mean anywhere you sign on a wall to

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me is just to me it's an honor to be

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able to sign the wall to show that I've

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been a part of the history that's been