I mentioned quite a few blogs ago, that I had transfered with Sun in from the Los Angeles Sales & Service office to the UK Solution Centre.   Working in the LA office was great fun as I got to visit some really interesting customer sites and meet interesting people doing cool things with Sun kit.

Of my many customer visits, visiting the Jet Propulsion Labs, aka JPL, during the Voyager Neptune Flyby in August 1989 was certainly one I remember well.   As Voyager 2 sent back pictures of Neptune, we encountered a technical glitch with one of the many data feeds.   Our boys quickly noted that a comms cable was on its last legs.   Another could be built in the onsite Sun workshop, but in the meantime, we had to hold this one steady to keep a good connection.   As a meer software engineer, I was given the task of holding the cable while the hardware guys went off to make a new cable.

So there I stood with Voyager data passing through my hands.   At long last, I was actively involved in the space program.   And to beat all, I even got to meet the late, great Carl Sagan!   Very cool.