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My name is Bruce LeRoy I'm a TDRS
telecommunication systems engineer.  Well,

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I got involved in, with TDRS, per se, a
long time before I came here. Back in

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1988, I worked up at General Electric,
Valley Forge, and I was responsible for

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bidding the technical proposals for STGT, which is the second TDRS ground

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terminal, which didn't exist at that
time.  Challenges come in, in, two or

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three flavors some of them are people
challenges, okay, and I had a particularly

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onerous one on TDRS-K.  I'm responsible
for selling off all the requirements

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which means that we spent probably 18
months getting all of the requirements

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and coming to agreements with the
contractor on what artifacts we were

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going to use to sell off which
requirement and at what level. We had an

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end-to-end from sensor to actuator
requirement which is very difficult to

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test in 1g especially for the ACS people
so the attitude control folks they did

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an end-to-end but it was such a pain to
do that we agreed that later spacecraft

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we would do it in pieces rather than the
whole end-to-end thing simultaneously.

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The team provides me with fun and if you
can't go to work in the morning and have

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fun all day and get paid for it then you
might as well quit.

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TDRS-M is doing great and we're going
to launch it very shortly and it's going

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to be great and it will be ducky.

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Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep