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About meI am an aerospace engineer with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. I was born in April of 1957. I have a lovely wife my age and a beautiful boy born in November of 1998. I work on the Cassini mission in orbit around the planet Saturn as the lead uplink engineer for the attitude (pointing) control subsystem of the spacecraft engineering office. I previously worked for the Space Division of Rockwell International (now Boeing) in Downey California as a senior engineer for Space Shuttle ascent, insertion, on-orbit, and deorbit guidance, navigation, and control.

About my libraryI buy books to read. I don't collect them as prize possessions. I own far more paperbacks than hardbacks because I care more about reading books, and understanding what they are trying to say, than their monetary value as first editions, etc. Rare books do not really interest me. I do care deeply about books as tangible things (as opposed to pure software to be read by Kindle), but especially for the knowledge, wisdom, wonder, experience, and beauty they contain.

Real nameThomas Burk

LocationPasadena, California

Emailthomas.a.burkjpl.nasa.gov

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