That is very interesting. Is there more to the story?
If you mean his 15 minutes:
He designed a space station on his own time after clocking out. It was inspired by a hypothetical concept by Werner von Braun.
If you are familiar with the common science-fiction concept of a spinning doughnut providing articial gravity, this is where it originates, apparently. It was to be built in orbit by robot tugboats.
My father designed it; an industrial artist drew the illustrations. Two man project. Since he was a Lockheed employee, they owned it, even though they did not contribute.
NASA was intrigued, but it preceded Mercury: too advanced. The re-entry vehicle looked like a mini-space shuttle.
My mother’s indifference stemmed, I infer, from his spending evenings away on this project while she was raising three very young children. I was the youngest, and do not remember it.
My love of airplanes and rockets and such developed completely independent of my father’s career, since I did not really know much about what he did until later.
I knew he was an “engineer”; that made me think he ran choo-choo trains when I was very young.