Since the space agency has certain restrictions against self-promotion, Ryan formed a student group to advertise NASA's goals and missions.
While studying at Cal-Poly, Ryan volunteered at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco. "I was actually flying over my house without them even knowing it," Ryan said.
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He got a scuba diving license at age 13 and started learning to fly airplanes when he was 15, though his parents didn't know about it. Ryan said he gave his first NASA-focused presentation in fourth grade. "I was very interested in NASA my whole life." "I was one of those children of Apollo," Ryan said. On the inside, Ryan said, the cockpit was complete down to the thousandth toggle switch.
The attention to detail is obvious: on the outside, careful layering of fiberglass displays the rounded aerodynamic features of a real shuttle. Ryan began building a full-scale mock-up of the shuttle's crew compartment some 15 years ago when he was still an engineering student at the California Polytechnic State University, Cal-Poly. Photo courtesy of Chuck Ryan.Ĭhuck Ryan's story of a space shuttle trainer called "Resolution" is one of time and timing. Image above: "Resolution" as it was being built in Santa Maria, Calif. Ryan says the cockpit includes a thousand toggle switches and other control features like those used on the real spacecraft. Image above: The space shuttle replica "Resolution" includes a full-sized flight deck, middeck and nose section. The replica now stands near Kennedy Space Center. Image above: Chuck Ryan stands in front of the space shuttle crew compartment replica he built when he was going to school in California.
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