Now that we’re well into the 21st century, most people rarely think of Rockwell Microelectronics in connection with microprocessors and microcontrollers. The parent company, North American Rockwell (renamed Rockwell International in 1973), was a major military/aerospace contractor. Rockwell built the Apollo spacecraft, the B1 Lancer bomber, and the US Space Shuttle. Rockwell’s Rocketdyne engines were…
Lonnie Dutreix was seemingly destined to be an engineer. The director of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Dutreix spent his childhood taking things apart to see how they