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When Royce Forman started his career as a federal employee at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1959, Dwight Eisenhower was president, a first class domestic U.S. postage stamp cost four cents and the few computers that existed occupied entire rooms. Now, 55 years later, the 83-year-old Forman continues in his job as a structural integrity engineer and scientist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC), where he has worked since 1967. He is the senior engineer overseeing fracture mechanics technology, testing and development at JSC, where he refines the NASGRO™ software, which he developed. NASGRO is a suite of programs that help