Jobless

Larry worked at the Kennedy Space Center for a company called United Space Alliance. He was hired as a design engineer for space shuttle support equipment, but for the last year or so most of his time was spent on designing modifications of the existing launch tower to accommodate the new space program, specifically the Aries 1X rocket. He designed the latch that kept the rocket in place until it was ready to launch. It then swung out of the way. On October 28, 2009 they had their first successful test launch. But, in the beginning of 2010 President Obama canceled the space program and is funding private companies to research and develop a new program. This meant Larry was eventually going to be laid off. He most likely could have kept his job until the last shuttle launched but to be proactive Larry started job searching in February. After much prayer we decided to take a volunteer lay-off and October 4th was his last day.