James M Jackson
JIM JACKSON WAS A HIGHLY RESPECTED ENGINEER and manager for NASA during the heyday of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and the Apollo Moon Landing Program. All his working days, however, he was sorely plagued with a weekly recurring emotional disturbance. This problem is as yet unnamed, so rare is it: Each Friday he would lapse into depression, owing to thoughts that his superiors insisted he not come to work the next day. Nevertheless, he accomplished the work of seven days in five....See more
JIM JACKSON WAS A HIGHLY RESPECTED ENGINEER and manager for NASA during the heyday of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and the Apollo Moon Landing Program. All his working days, however, he was sorely plagued with a weekly recurring emotional disturbance. This problem is as yet unnamed, so rare is it: Each Friday he would lapse into depression, owing to thoughts that his superiors insisted he not come to work the next day. Nevertheless, he accomplished the work of seven days in five. Today, Jim, a widower and the father of two sons and five grandchildren, is adjusting to life in the leisure and comfort of a retirement home. See less
