I attended night classes at three different schools, but never obtained a degree, being short too many credits at the time, also short of money. But NASA, on contracting me as a writer in 1965 for one year, to write high school educational material on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, told me this in effect gave me an honorary MS degree (for my long background in science articles and for the editorship of Space World magazine). Also, the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA offered me a post as public relations technical writer on the basis of my qualifications being roughly equivalent to a master's. I can, today, teach science in any high school if I wish, but not college. Among the various courses I took in college were advanced, quantitative, and organic chemistry, aiming for a chemical engineering degree, or advanced chemical research.
