Derelyk

My dad worked for lockhead then for martin marrieta in the 60's.

This is an e-mail I got from him LAST year.

Al & Randy

The main program Ray & I worked on for years at both Lockheed & Martin Marietta (1961 to 1972) was recently declassified -- the air force had the hardware on display for 3 days.

Google "Secret cold war spy satellite program declassified" -- there is a link in the article to a series of 23 photos. We generated the mission trajectories for the Titan 3B & Titan 3D launch vehicles at Martin Marietta. The Thor launch vehicle is shown on the last photo which we worked on at Lockheed -- we also generated the reentry trajectories for the film pods at Lockheed. We turned the reentry work over to a special group in Lockheed for the really big satellite work when we went to Martin Marietta.

The article makes it pretty clear why the Air Force did not want either of us traveling outside the U.S. for years -- sorry could not say much about this for years.

This was our primary work along with the Titan 3C work out of Florida.

and here's the 2 articles: space.com and

and the bus

We never knew, and he never discussed what he did in 60's earlier 70's.

He ended up working for Union Carbide (huge international company) and couldn't travel outside the company till the mid 80's.

But luckily there is a way to find out.

Wow Wow Wow. Just read Jesse's article, thank you for standing your ground.

How did you and your wife work through this? This had to be an incredible stressor for your marriage.

Jesse what have you learned from Tony and his wife?

I would love to see you Foreclose on Haliburton. Get a writ from the courts, show up at their office with a large van and the sherriff to serve it.

Video tape it of course.

That's a great attitude to take. Always remember they're calling you big mike because you connected with them in some way through the character.