John Companion:  

OK : After high school it was the Air Force, where I thought I would be a musician. Well, that did not happen. After the testing it was decided that I should be a Telemetry technician. I spent time at Edwards AFB in the Mojave Desert working on the X15 project and then went to a mountain top back in New Hampshire to work on spy satellites. Never had a military supervisor and my orders were in case of war; lock the door and don't come out till its over. Not a very typical military career, but it got me a job at NASA afterwards. I spent many years at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia where I worked on everything from submarines to space ships to 300 year old coffins to experimental aircraft ( flight crew for 6 years) to medical ultrasound research. When I left NASA in 1995, I was a researcher in the Applied Science Department at the College of William and Mary for 5 years. I looked at periodontal disease for the Navy and Prostate Cancer for the Army. I then went to the Old Dominion University Research Foundation for 11 years, where my job was to find research projects for students and faculty at the state universities, help them get th...Expand for more