I have been working in the aero space industry for 35 years at Orbital Sciences Corporation at Germantown, MD as a scientist. I have just retired from the company, where I had the responsibility for all safety studies relating to the payload for various missions. This involved detailed structural calculations in order to simulate the response of the payload to a multitude of credible accident scenarios proposed by NASA.

Now that I have retired from the company, I would like to use my ex...