Robert Shelley:  

Greetings! I went to Marshall Jr. High, in Long Beach, CA, and then on to Millikan High School from 57 thru 59. After graduation I enlisted in the US Navy and went to boot camp at NTS San Diego, CA., where I was placed in Recruit Training Company 59-457. After that I went to USNTSC Glakes, Illinois. After graduation as an AF (Apprentice Fireman) I was assigned to the USS Prairie AD15 Destroyer Tender in the Aft Engine Room. From there I was transferred to the USS Taussig DD746, a Sumner Class Destroyer, which I served on for a year, or so, and then was discharged at San Diego, CA. From there I returned to my parents home in Long Beach, CA, and stayed with them until I got a job at Northrop Nortronics in Anaheim, CA. I worked there as a drafter for two years and was laid off when the "Skybolt" contract was canceled. From there I went to North American Aviation, Space and Information Division, where I worked on the Saturn V booster and the Apollo Space Craft. From there I went to TRW where I worked on the Lunar Lander. Then I went to JPL Pasadena and worked on the Surveyor Space Craft and Mariner Mars '67 Program. Next I went to several non-military/space commercial companies and then back to North American Rockwell, Anaheim, where I worked on the Space Shuttle. When that was finished I again did some commercial work and then went to Odetics, Spaceborne Division, Anaheim, where I worked as a Design Drafter Checker on many space satellite and mapper programs such as: Mars Mapper, Venus Radar Mapper, GeoSat, Galileo, SPOT and others. Then the Challenger blew up and realized that NASA hadn't learned anything from Apollo I. I stayed on the job for a few more months and left. I then went to California State University at San Bernardino where ...Expand for more