Trilobyter on Nostr: well at that point I knew the Space Shuttle was coming to an end so I happily & ...

well at that point I knew the Space Shuttle was coming to an end so I happily & gratefully jumped at the opportunity to start on Orion & stay employed. Many of my colleagues from Shuttle had to retire or go do other things when the program ended in 2011. Plus when I started on Shuttle it was already a mature program, in more of a sustaining engineering mode. With Orion I got to get in at the very beginning and work initial design & development, which is catnip for engineers.