After graduating from Cornell, Nye worked as an engineer for the Boeing Corporation and Sundstrand Data Control near Seattle. While at Boeing, he invented a hydraulic resonance suppressor tube used on Boeing 747 airplanes.[18]
Nye applied four times for NASA's astronaut training program, but was always rejected.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nye#Early_life
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