Geof gray cobb biografia wikipedia

Geof Gray Cobb arrived in South Africa in 1962, he was 40 years old. Initially he worked for English Electric and then the Rand Water Board. Until one day he noticed an advertisement in the Rand Daily Mail stating that the Deep Space Instrumentation Facility were hiring. It looked interesting and he thought it would be kind of different working at a tracking station. So he applied. To hear Geof tell the story he would have you believe that his youthful background in building crystal sets (first type of primitive radio) would provide adequate qualifications! After two days of interviews and aptitude tests he was surprised when he was offered the job. The doctor said he possessed a high IQ and consequently met their requirements. His new job site at DSIF was located about forty miles outside Johannesburg, between that city and Pretoria. The actual place was called Hartbeesfontei

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