Working for NASA

Wildblueflyer · February 27, 2009, 01:53:30 PM

Are there any NASA employees out there who are also in CAP?

jspear · February 27, 2009, 04:46:52 PM

Just retired from NASA in May. After 26 years of Federal Service !!!!

Angus · February 27, 2009, 05:10:18 PM

Well there is an Astronaut who is a CAP member who went up last year does that count?

Flying Pig · February 28, 2009, 04:11:42 PM

There is an active member in CAWG in Southern Ca who is an astronaut trainee I believe. I think "Wingnut55" knows him.

bosshawk · February 28, 2009, 05:42:58 PM

Rob: I know who you are talking about and he is not yet an astronaut trainee: is still in the application process, I believe. He doesn't work for NASA: in fact, works for a lab that I used to visit when I was still in gov't.

Flying Pig · February 28, 2009, 05:48:59 PM

Ahhhh.....a "Lab" you used to visit while you worked for the "Government". I get it.

wingnut55 · March 01, 2009, 09:46:31 AM

I use to work on the STS for Lockheed in Vehicle Ops,
we had several guys in the final 100 for the Astronut Corps.
We have a guy who does work at JPL.
remember NASA is primarily the Contract Administrator,
the workers on the space program are 90% contractors.

The military space program is maybe 20x as big as Nasa. And much more High Tech.

DG · March 01, 2009, 12:27:01 PM

Ed Lewis was working as a test pilot for NASA.

He was the oldest employee they had.

PHall · March 01, 2009, 05:32:21 PM

Quote from: DG on March 01, 2009, 12:27:01 PM
Ed Lewis was working as a test pilot for NASA.

He was the oldest employee they had.

He said the perfect way to celebrate your 65th birthday was to fly supersonic.

Which he did in a NASA F/A-18.

MikeD · March 02, 2009, 01:33:50 AM

Quote from: PHall on March 01, 2009, 05:32:21 PM
Quote from: DG on March 01, 2009, 12:27:01 PM
Ed Lewis was working as a test pilot for NASA.

He was the oldest employee they had.

He said the perfect way to celebrate your 65th birthday was to fly supersonic.

Which he did in a NASA F/A-18.

I don't think that there is a better way, unless he could have gotten a ride in a Blackbird. I think even NASA stopped flying them by then though.

RogueLeader · March 02, 2009, 01:43:19 AM

96 was the last year for blackbirds, IIRC.

flyguy06 · March 02, 2009, 02:07:14 AM

COL Eric Boe is a current Astronaut and is a former GAWG cadet and current Senior Member in FLWG. He came by the Fernbank Science center in Atlanta last weekend and talked.

MikeD · March 03, 2009, 04:32:32 AM

Quote from: RogueLeader on March 02, 2009, 01:43:19 AM
96 was the last year for blackbirds, IIRC.

I know at least until 99 they'd run the engines at work once in a while. Sadly a few years before I started there. It's on display near the visitors lot across from the X-29. I use it as a landmark for giving directions now