By day, David Jackson works full-time as an Ohio Class 3 wastewater operator in the Pickerington Water Reclamation Department. By night, he becomes a 48-year-old wanna-be astronaut who re-creates full-size A7L Apollo spacesuits. The replicas are so accurate that Jackson earned a page on the NASA Apollo Lunar Surface Journal Web site. Two suits are displayed in museums in Germany. At present, Jackson is casting and welding one for a private collector in Sweden and another for himself. The hobby began in 2005 while Jackson recovered from a fractured right foot. “I needed something to do,” he says. “I grew up during
