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I graduated in 1960 in math/physics. My first job was at the United Aircraft Research Lab in East Hartford, Conn. working on a large weather prediction project. The most important jobs I had were working on the Surveyor, Apollo, and Skylab Projects (the first US/USSR joint mission in space) at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. On the Apollo Project, I headed a group of five programmers involved in analyzing changed telemetry requirements, per mission, then coding, debugging, simulating, and verifying the changes to the telemetry streams. Telemetry streams flowed from the Saturn S5 rocket, the Command & Service Module, and the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM). This was a childhood dream come true to have contributed to a space endeavor which will be remembered for as long as human history survives. I often look up at the moon and know that six descent LEM modules, whose telemetry data we processed in real time, will be there for many billions of years. In December of 1969, five months after the Apollo 11 landed, I met my lovely lady, Mary Jane Gurosky - a 1966 Penn State graduate. We married in 1971 and had a son, Clark Ryan Cogan, in 1980. In 1988, I started my own small business remanufacturing and recycling laser printer and copier cartridges. This allowed many thousands of cartridges to be reused and prevented their being discarded into a landfill.