This is an article that Technical Father Jerry Lockett wrote while he was a reporter for the Houston Post in 1963. NASA was training astronauts, and he went to the flight school and put himself through astronaut paces.
(Mom evidently annotated the article after the divorce: that's why there's a hole.)
I've had this article for years, but I only dug it out after I watched First Man and saw the scene where Neil Armstrong tries out the "Human Centrifuge" below.
Not only did Jerry get the byline, he was featured in these two photos that further prove I was switched at birth, because I don't resemble either of my parents.
About four years later he contracted to be a technical writer at NASA. Pretty cool job.
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