In 1962 Gerry left LMSC after two years to return to his native Texas and become a Senior Aerosystems Engineer at GD/FW in Fort Worth, Texas.
From February 20, 1961, the day astronaut Al Shepard rode the Freedom 7 spacecraft in a suborbital flight down the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Canaveral, Gerry's strong desire was to work at NASA as a flight controller in Mission Control.