Steve Mott:  

Howdy! Here's 30 years of personal history in a not-so-tiny nutshell... I have lived in Florida for some 26 years now. I live on Merritt Island, which is where the Space Shuttle launches from (on Kennedy Space Center). I got married in 1993 to my wife, Donna, and we have an 11-year old son named Corey. I love them both dearly! I left KC in 1982 and worked for McDonnell Douglas at Kennedy Space Center on Space Shuttle payloads. I was there for 5 years until the first shuttle (Challenger) blew up in 1986 just after launch. I had worked with that crew a lot. Following that mishap I went to work "across the river" as they say at Cape Canaveral with expendable launch vehicles (unmanned). I worked for Lockheed Martin on the Titan rocket as a Guidance and Flight Control engineer for the next 17 years until the program ended. I was off work for about 6 of the most wonderful months until I took another job as a senior systems test engineer for a company that makes thermal weapon sights for the military (they mount on machine guns and allow clear visibility in total darkness). I wa...Expand for more