Are there any NASA employees out there who are also in CAP?
Just retired from NASA in May. After 26 years of Federal Service !!!!
Well there is an Astronaut who is a CAP member who went up last year does that count?
There is an active member in CAWG in Southern Ca who is an astronaut trainee I believe. I think "Wingnut55" knows him.
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.
Ahhhh.....a "Lab" you used to visit while you worked for the "Government". I get it. ;)
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.
Ed Lewis was working as a test pilot for NASA.
He was the oldest employee they had.
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.
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.
96 was the last year for blackbirds, IIRC.
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.
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 :)