My husband worked for a contractor at NASA and while most of what he did had to do with transporting various and sundry payloads around the country for manufacture and/or testing (not like you just bubble wrap the stuff and toss it into a box - he had to design holding fixtures, environmental systems, monitoring systems - some real high-tech stuff!) - anyway, he did design something that ended up going up in a big rocket. But if he wanted to impress people, he didn’t talk as much about the ground transportation, which is too bad. Some of the stuff he worked on was really cool!
Daughter has taken her puppeh and gone home. Higgs is crashed on FCD’s lap - she’s worn out. I’m about to toss another load into the washer. All in all, a mostly lazy afternoon.