4.4 • 777 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 184 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You worked in missile defense at NASA, is that right? |
| 0:10.0 | Not. |
| 0:11.0 | Those are two separate things. |
| 0:12.0 | I worked in missile defense for what initially was called Star Wars, which turned into |
| 0:19.0 | ballistic missile defense initiative. |
| 0:22.6 | And then later, I worked with NASA. |
| 0:27.6 | Okay, so how did you get into working with Star Wars? |
| 0:31.6 | It was a job. |
| 0:33.6 | And I worked in a, I was called a CETA, it's systems engineering and technical work, that we were the technical brains of the government, that sort of thing. |
| 0:49.2 | The government manages the money, and then they hire in technical to to kind of manage the technology or to do |
| 0:57.7 | the technology so I went there for a for a job working and uh yeah I was back in the um middle 80s |
| 1:07.8 | 1980s is that Reagan um yeah I think it started with Reagan. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.6 | And then how did you transition from the Star Wars stuff to NASA? |
| 1:20.6 | Well, I worked for about 15 years in the Star Wars arena. |
| 1:30.3 | And then I wanted to homeschool my children. |
| 1:35.3 | And my son was begging me to break him out of jail in school. |
| 1:42.3 | So... |
| 1:43.3 | How old? He was probably maybe 12, 13, something like that, very bright boy, |
| 1:53.5 | and he was just bored to death in school and didn't particularly like all the rules that |
| 1:58.3 | didn't make any sense to him and so on, like boys tend to be. |
| 2:02.9 | And so I went and talked with his teachers and talked with the school and came to the conclusion that he was right. |
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