10 years

This is my father at White Sands Missile Range in the 1960's. Most of his career involved designing, building, testing and running equipment for upper atmospheric research as a civilian electrical engineer working for the US Air Force. His work took him all around the Western hemisphere, places like Thule Greenland, Alaska, Peru and Ascension Island, his devices, stuff like charged particle detectors and automated cameras, were on or observed research airplanes, numerous rocket launches and the space shuttle. He took me to watch STS-60 launch from the VIP stands, his group had particle detectors on the Wake Shield. 10 years ago today he died of a heart attack.