1st Ever SPACE SHUTTLE Landing - I was there for this one

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15. I salute you!

I worked at JSC, on-board nav on the simulators and SAIL, the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory. It was my dream job, but I had to leave the program after STS-4. My wife worked on Project LACIE, the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment. She got laid off during Regan's turn as "Fool on The Hill". Could not afford to live on one salary, so I had to prostitute myself to the oil companies. LACIE was the program that told us how much wheat was going to be produced each year by Russia, China, Australia, Argentina, and the US. When Regan shut it down we went blind. The Russians gamed the system, caused the price of wheat to crash, and then bough it all at below market. That year we paid more in the US for Wheat produced in the US than Russians did for the same grain. And they used it as cattle feed. Thanks again, Repugs.