Hello out there.
Welcome to my Web page. Why a web page? Because I want to prove to myself and the kids that I'm attempting to keep up with the technology since I retired. I also want to share some of my life experience with others and a web page is a fun way of doing it.
Kids?? They are 46, 44 and 42 with me being 72. I have been married 47 of those years to the same lovely girl, Barbara, who is a Porcelain painter and also enjoys rubber stamping and gardening. Click here for some examples of what she does.Clicking on any underlined words will take you to another page associated with that word.)
We have lived in the same house in Duarte California, the home of the City of Hope, , for 42 of those years.
I retired from the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in 1997 after working
there for 35 years. During those years, I participated in
all the planetary
launches since 1962.
One of my first assignments was preparing the
procedures and equipment needed to transport the Ranger Spacecraft from
California to Florida. I think that I had something to do with
the use of
I also worked on
Electric and Hybrid Cars.- Yes, NASA and JPL were involved with them for several years-.My last position was the ATLO (Assembly,Test and Launch Operations) Manager for the Mars Global Surveyor Project.
Now that I'm not flying spacecraft, I'm doing
all those things that I never had time to do before. Like clean
the garage.-will take ten years at least. - plus all those other
things that are on the "Honey Do" list. *Note; 10 years have passed since
I first wrote that and the garage is still not cleaned. One of our major activities since retiring WAS -(we just sold it)- Motorhoming in
our "House car".
(Thats what California calls it.) We are now enjoying the
I will continue to work on these pages as time and the
Honey Do list permits. Hope you enjoyed it.
Thanks, Vince Wirth
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