Jay Tibbles:  

After graduation, I went to Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy. While there it was renamed University of Missouri at Rolla. Now it is Missouri University of Science and Technology. I had a small scholarship but had to work to earn tuition. i started on the Co-operative Education Program with NASA working on the Space Program. I moved 14 times between Rolla and Huntsville, Alabama to work at Marshall Space Flight Center where I met Werner von Braun and many other German Rocket pioneers. I finished my Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering - Aerospace in 4 years and 1 Summer Session despite all the moving. (The course was expected to take at least 5 full years). While working for NASA after graduation, I got involved in Bio-medical Engineering. I took classes at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. On a few occasions, I was asked to teach the classes in which I was enrolled. My first job was the testing and development of the F-1 rocket engine for the Saturn V booster. I, later, became the S-II stage manager which used the J-2 engines as well as the S-IVB. I was on a monitoring st...Expand for more