by Thomas O’B.
My father, Kenneth, originally started
with the Glenn L. Martin Company in the 1940s, I believe. He graduated from
college with an aeronautical engineering degree, and worked on the seaplanes in
Baltimore, Maryland. In 1959, he was transferred to the Waterton facility in Colorado
and started working on the Titan rockets. He ultimately was asked to take an
early retirement in 1975 after completing Mission Success work on the Viking program
that went to the planet Mars. I worked for Martin Marietta in the procurement
department until I was laid off in 1990, before the company became Lockheed
Martin. I would love to somehow come back and work my last working days at
Lockheed Martin.
