Originally Posted by waterbug_wpb
How are things at the shuttle pad these days, anyway?


Thank you for asking, you are one of the few. Pads A and B are now empty and 85% of the people I worked with are now gone (Most took the voluntary layoff& $$). One of the side jobs I used to do and sincerely miss, was going out to sea on Liberty Star to retrieve the solid rocket boosters.

WRT the future, the group Im in, Mechancial Design Engineering, has been retained for subsequent work on the Space Launch System.
Space Launch System
In addition to preliminary design evaluations for the SLS, Im also involved in some smaller DOD reverse engineering projects (toilet for a C-130 , NO $HIT, no pun intended!) and I've been teaching Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing in accordance with ASME Y14.5. Actually heading to Nashville Oct. 3rd thru 7th for the national committee meeting (presenting a dimensioning scheme for rectangular features of size).

Originally Posted by waterbug_wpb
You coming to Hiram's?

Yeppers. Have to improve on last year's performance. Should be a Wildcat next weekend.

BTW I gave up on trying to keep track of your real "Kitchen Passes",
even NASA can't discern those facts from fiction...

Enough with the thread hi-jack damn it! Back to the topic.

Last edited by Fearless_Rider; 09/24/11 07:31 AM.

BTW, my BBQ Rocks!