Mister B. Living With A 98-Year-Old Rocket Scientist [Paperback]

Mister B: Living with a 98-Year-Old Rocket Scientist, is a 351 page compilation of? scientific memoirs that matter in world history.

What Aesop and his fables are to children, Mister B and his memoirs are to adults. ?Born in 1916, to a?Polish speaking mother, Joseph Byk begins his early schooling in rope-tied-baggy-pants-poverty. He is every teachers dreaded student. Ending his senior year at Woonsocket High, Rhode Island, however, he begs a high school counselor to help him make up the deficiencies in his missing math education. Why? Because, suddenly, he aspires to design vehicles that defy gravity. Mister B eventually helps design the space shuttle Gemini, the first moon landing gear for Apollo and the beginnings of Google Earth.

Joe Byks high school counselor helps to enroll him into Auburn University-(Alabama Polytechnic) to hone up on his math deficiency. Graduating from the University of Alabama, Mister Bs career begins on the back of a good ol boys business card, with a reference to work for Vultee, in Downey, California. There, he helps design basic trainer war planes. When, at the beginning of WWII, he transfers to the Glen Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland, he continues to perform stress analysis on space craft throughout the cold war.

M-i-s-t-e-r. B, is the Rhode Island son Polish immigrants. His memoirs capture the essence of the Greatest Generation.

Great story. I was enthralled right to the end, reports?Sue Lockwood Summers, author-teacher of: Get Them Thinking! Use Media Literacy to Prepare Students for State Assessments.?Arm chair philosophers, book clubs and would-be scientists will appreciate Mister Bs wry interactions with his in-laws who move into his home to help him after the death?of his wife. The ol man decides to teach these younger caretakers a thing or two: specifically that, his newest design?is to live forever.?

The reader is carried from tragedy to hilarilj