He stopped getting the weekly checks from the aerospace contractor because he could no longer get to the supervisor to submit a weekly time card.
The stock of United Technologies, a major aerospace contractor, also benefited, rising $2.625, to $71 a share.
The project is the first space tourism entry by a major aerospace contractor.
The lawsuit seeks to recover millions of dollars in fines levied against the aerospace contractor for Federal contract fraud.
He became an executive of Rockwell International, the aerospace contractor that built the space shuttles.
Another repercussion was the increasing reliance on aerospace contractors, whose services could be cheaper than in-house staff.
Last fall, a team of four aerospace contractors working under Government supervision reached a broad conceptual agreement on the plane's basic configuration.
But the consolidation could be painful to aerospace contractors who have been hurt by the end of the cold war and hungry for civil work.
His next job was in the work-station-design division of Unisys, the aerospace contractor.
He was staying at the home of an aerospace contractor named Jenkins, working in a broad living room with uncurtained windows overlooking Seattle and the bay.