About me/us (Hobbies, interests, life philosophy, etc.) :
My Interests: Aerospace, Animation, Archery, Astronomy, Chess, Photography, Travel, & Science Fiction Writing.
Philosophy: Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional! Also, take opportunities when they occur, they rarely recur!
I've been fortunate to live an active and mostly satisfying life, having traveled to 26 countries, and seen 9 total solar eclipses. I remain single, having had two partners pass early due to medical issues.
At the Jet Propulsion Lab, I've worked on many projects over 35 years: The Infra Red Astronomy Satellite, Long Duration Exposure Facility, Deep Space Network communications, Cassini, Galileo, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, Near Earth Asteroid Tracking, Mars rovers (MER), Orbiting Carbon Observatory, and others. Asteroid 19290Schroeder was named for some of my work there.
My interest in aviation resulted in a pilot's license, and the construction of two homebuilt aircraft (One of my own design)
I was a planetarium show producer and presenter for 35 years at Mt. San Antonio College. I built the (At the time) worlds largest amateur made refracting telescope there in 1976, and still use it today for public astronomical observing at local schools.