At this point in US history Lyndon Johnson was Majority Chai

At this point in US history Lyndon Johnson was Majority Chair of the Senate and Sam Rayburn was Speaker of the House. They made it happen that if NASA were going to grow they would agree to locate the manned spacecraft effort in Houston.

Rice University donated land that had earlier been donated to Rice by Humble Oil Company (now Exxon/Mobil). and the Manned Spacecraft Center was established in Clear Lake, TX.

This NASA group operated in rental property along the Gulf Freeway near the U of H until buildings were ready for occupancy in the early 60’s.

One place I applied for a job was a company named Technology Incorporated. Until I interviewed I did not know that this was a NASA contractor with a contract to support the Cardiovascular lab at the MSC.

The interview went well and I left the Speech and Hearing Center and began working in Building 7A on the NASA Campus.

I will describe this work in a different section of this time.

I worked full time in the summer of ‘68 and went part time when school started.