Preserving the Past for the Future

Without knowing from whence we come, there is little hope for charting a pleasant, human-centered future. Thus, saving our cultural resources, "Alas, all too rapidly vanishing into the limbo of time", is a vital endeavor. See some selected Historic Preservation work of Luke Idziak below.

Saturn V Rocket Design / Fabrication / Repair / Assembly

U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama Summer 2007

Conservation, fabrication and design work on a Saturn V Rocket.

Luke Idziak: Contractor Employee Technician.

Duties: Diagnostic, repair, fabrication, and recreation work performed upon a variety of sub- assemblies and materials in the main stages, capsule, escape rocket motor, and nosecone of a Saturn V rocket. Discovery of hairline fractures in a titanium support truss. Personal design of a novel internal nosecone attachment mechanism.