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He worked on many memorable aerospace projects at Ford, and after retirement was a consultant
to Loral .
He also worked in later years for his son, William Frederick Jolitz, supervising manufacturing
processes at Symmetric Computer Systems. But probably of all the projects he worked on,
the most amazing is that transponders on Pioneer are still transmitting
telemetry long after the death of their creator, and has now left the solar system, traveling
farther than any man or woman - an enduring legacy for an ordinary boy from Duluth.
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See one of his 8mm films of a visit to the famous Scott's Valley tourist trap "Visit to the Lost World" in the late 60's.
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