Why John Paul Loves Space

John Paul Garlasco, Group Lead Engineer at The Lee Company shares why developing fluid control components for new space missions is meaningful to him.

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00:00:00 My grandfather was uh you know the son of immigrants, the first in our family to go to college. They valued that education. They pushed him to go to school and he became an engineer and uh in the 60s was working at Grumman during the Apollo missions. Uh and he had a big part in helping uh design the lunar module, specifically weight savings on the lunar module. So I remember as a kid

00:00:25 he used to tell us that his fingerprints were on the moon. And so I always thought that that was uh pretty interesting because as I came to work here at Lee and we developed more parts for the new space specifically uh you know I was starting to design and develop components that could potentially take humans to Mars. So I thought that was uh kind of a very

00:00:49 interesting and fun continuation of our you know professional and personal legacy.