When I was a kid, my uncle would tell me these great stories about his aerospace engineering career. He used to tell me all about the machinery and the designs that he built throughout his life and always said he picked the perfect career for himself because of all the cool stuff he was able to build. Once he told me about working in the nose cone of an Apollo rocket, fixing some sensitive piece of equipment just a few days before its launch.I was enamored by this. Listening to his stories had me daydreamin ...