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so i could usually i test we'd get in

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about five in the morning we'd test

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that night i went to sleep about nine

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woke up about one

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couldn't go back to sleep got to work

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about three in the morning

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security guard mike who's been knowing

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me for years

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asked me cory what are you doing out

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here i said i couldn't sleep

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he says i got that test today huh i said

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yeah so he says well go on in

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have fun good luck tess went great

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people that showed up that day we was

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dressed all in white shirts

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we looked just like the apollo days we

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had the little black skinny ties

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pocket protectors on so it was it was

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exciting but it was actually sad because

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everybody knew it was the last test out

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and you know everybody was remembering

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the people at the head that had trained

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and had retired and some of them you

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know they were talking to

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and just you know we had people from

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from headquarters everywhere it was just

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an awesome experience and i'm really

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actually blessed that i was able to

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have some history and and test you know

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around november of 2001 and

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memories i have to say

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every shuttle launch pretty much being

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in the control room

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just watching the engines light up

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and everybody's waiting for them to turn

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pretty much go into chairs because

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we know that once we like the engines

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and turn them off

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there's a good chance that we're going

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to have a successful mission

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there was one launch that i actually

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went to ksc

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for and i was observing all the

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operations in with

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the stack that's where the ssme

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team sets at for each shuttle launch at

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and i actually went out just minutes

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that was my first

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live shuttle launch that i have ever

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seen it was very impressive

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since then i have seen one more and i'm

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hoping to see

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years ago i met my wife here at

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rocketdyne

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shortly after we were married we had the

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good fortune to go to kennedy space

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center for a launch

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and because she was an employee on some

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of our free time

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she was also badged in and we could go

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a couple of days before the launch were

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our platforms giving us access to the

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engines were still in place

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and we're standing out there sea breeze

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nozzles

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the back of her head and she thought i

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being romantic and i had to spoil the

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telling her i didn't want her hair to

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blow into the nozzle and

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one particular memory that stands out

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for me working on the space shuttle

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program

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is doing the routine post-test

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inspections that

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inspections on it was completed

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acceptance test and was ready to be

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going to florida

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and during that routine inspection i

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noticed something unusual that i had

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never seen before

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and uh it looked like a metallic

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contamination behind the turbine

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when i talked to the more experienced

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engineers about it and we realized what

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was going on it actually

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started an investigation understanding

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why this was in here and we ended up

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having to send the pump back

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for disassembly and for me it was

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a really a lesson that even a routine

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inspection will find something that's

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of significant importance to the program

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i had directly contributed to the

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success of the program and it was

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a day that that will stand out in my

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engineer i came out there in 1977 in the

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computer system because it

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had been down for three weeks and and

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said that i was i got asked how long it

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would take to get the system up and

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him i didn't have

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didn't bring a lunch so i expected i

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would get it in and it was up in about

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an hour and he said

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engineers i've ever met

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very fortunate the only thing i knew was

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it happened to be that particular

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computer but

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says would you interested in going to

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rocketdyne and i says that'd be great

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what would it take and i said i don't

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know what is your smartest guy now again

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so i happened to be looking at plowden

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was a test conductor and i hired him as

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an mts4 that day and that's been a great

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first started out on the team it was

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pretty new and

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a little bit green to build in the

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hardware i was working with another

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manufacturing engineer and it seemed as

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he had taken a day off for vacationing

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or was out sick is when all the major

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catastrophes happened

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we had we had some hardware that was

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damaged a few times a duck that flipped

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in a dolly and i was the one here to

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respond for it and

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really didn't know what to do so i was

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having to to run around and

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collect a group of people to come help

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me solve the problems but

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bad things went wrong when he wasn't

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here and i was so i wasn't sure if it

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learning experience on the program

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we've definitely had our trials and

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tribulations building the hardware but

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we've made it through it and i think

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here and work for rocketdyne at the time

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and i really thought that was going to

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be a short part of my career is to come

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out to california work

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on what rocketdyne was working you know

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the shuttle and so forth and space

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it has just been a tremendous experience

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and challenging experience that i enjoy

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to answer your question it somewhat has

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very enjoyable and very exciting

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and and like i said previously it's it's

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total team effort relative to not only

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pwr working on a task but also with our

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customer our nasa customer

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working to make something very

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challenging successful

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and advancing our presence in space and

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i had the opportunity to see in person

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my first space shuttle launch

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and my daughter was only three so she

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could not be in the

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stands with me she had to be on the

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causeway which is where the general

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public can go to view the space shuttle

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so my husband took the short straw and

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sister sat with me in the viewing stands

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uh the launch window was much greater it

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was up to two and a half hours that we

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would wait the entire two hours

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wondering are we actually going to be

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able to launch the shuttle

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and the worry was weather and the clouds

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there was a soldier standing next to it

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and it had been a long time and he'd

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been standing there the whole time

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and for whatever reason in the last

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moments he knelt on one knee

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and sure enough within moments the

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engines ignited the fire and the flames

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you can see it it lights up the whole

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sky and all the

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natural flying fish the alligators all

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the birds everything comes it's amazing

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how you see everybody reacting that

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people and all

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and up it went and i i still remember it

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husband and my daughter were

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experiencing they were quite

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a distance from ourselves and we didn't

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so i had to wait until we re um you know

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convene together

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and she was so excited only three years

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old telling me

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about what her experience had been as

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visitors from all over the world but

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hundreds go on the causeway to see the

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one very uh memorable experience

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trout fishing on the white river which

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launch so we finished fishing and

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we went into this little restaurant sort

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slash sports bar uh called the back 40.

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um of course there's tvs on the being a

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sports bar there's tvs everywhere

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and we said hey the shuttle's about to

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launch uh

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could we see it on the tv and we got

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dumbfound look and we said

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you know the space shuttle and we still

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got that same look like

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you ain't you ain't from around here are

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you and so

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uh we looked at each other and said well

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obviously we're not in huntsville

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anymore

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and uh i probably should have asked the

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guy

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how the razorbacks were doing that year

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and we probably would have gotten a

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response

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right

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i started working shuttle systems in

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1977

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and so you can

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you can do the arithmetic there's no

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math involved in that

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but uh we've had a good time i was like

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i say

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the research the fun stage we broke a

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few things

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learned a lot uh put in 80 hours a week

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for months at a time and

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when we would get a test off it was it

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was a feeling of completion

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you did something and

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i like to have that feeling when i when

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i leave here i like to have that feeling

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every day

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that i've accomplished something and

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we can

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you know some people uh worry about what

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we're going to do

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after the end of the shuttle program and

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we had a meeting last week with the

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deputy program manager for constellation

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there's just so many exciting things on

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the horizon for the people

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in the liquid propulsion world the j2

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programs out there the rs68

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all the new missions are coming up with

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pwr engines on them and even engines

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that we haven't built yet

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so just to be a part of this you're sad

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that shuttle's going away but the new

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programs are going to come on

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quick and really i think there'll be

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very little transition or we'll

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growing up in the valley as a young boy

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i was able to look up at the santa

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susana

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and see it light up at night and my

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father became

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an employee of rocketdyne 40 years ago

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and so that was a big

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big push for me to want to get in and be

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following my father's

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footsteps so when i got hiring into

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rocketdyne that was that was

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pretty amazing for me that that i'm

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following in my father's footsteps

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and as far as the shuttle itself i don't

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mean to be cliche but

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when i finally went and watched the

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shuttle fly it was just amazing and i

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just didn't

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really understand the power and the

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uniqueness

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and how scary it is to watch that fly

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and once i got to see that i'll never

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forget it

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i've always known working on the shuttle

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program that that was something great

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and i've always been proud to tell

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people i meet hey i work on the shuttle

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program

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not many people really get to say that

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we're a handful of people out in this

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world that get to say that

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and i've always been proud but watching