BROOK PARK, Ohio — Jim Soeder is greeted by pleasantly surprised faces as he walks through his former stomping grounds at NASA Glenn Research Center. The retired Senior Power Technologist is recognized by coworkers who want to know what brings him back to campus.
Due to his work on a major project during the 1980s and ’90s that no current employee at NASA Glenn was part of, the media relations staff has invited him to take a look at NASA technical drawings a local man found in his garage.
That man was me.
30 years in a garage
I’ve found strange things left behind by previous residents at my 100-year-old house, but a poster tube in my garage held the most surprising one…