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Winner of NASA Glove Contest Named
eZtaR writes "The winner of NASA's $200k spacesuit glove contest has been found. He's an unemployed aerospace engineer, named Peter Homer, and claims to have bought most of the materials in local shops and on eBay."
Spacewalks are hard on astronauts' hands
I know there is more to the sentence, but this clause made me chuckle. "Heh - they're doing it wrong."
I need more coffee...
PS Here is the link to the printer-friendly version, i.e. the article on one page.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Here's another article about the glove that actually features pictures of the gloves and contestants.
And of course the massive (and steady) shrinkage of the aerospace industry over the past 10-15 years has nothing to do with it? TFA implies that he hasn't been an aerospace engineer in quite a while - in fact the job he's currently unemployed from is 'director of a community service organization', not 'aerospace engineer'. This cached page from Google suggests he was already out of the aerospace industry by the mid-late 90's. Indeed, it could be interpeted as saying that even though his degree is aerospace engineering - he's only briefly been a practicing aerospace engineer.
Once I take my tinfoil hat and bias blinders off - I find it far more likely that his entire division was downsized, without replacement, a very common story in aerospace across the 1990's.