On their first date, Tom Gasko and his husband, Donnie Pedrola, talked for hours about vacuum designs. "Most people aren't that passionate about something," Pedrola tells Gasko at StoryCorps.

One of the futuristic spaceships on “Star Trek” was the Gasko, and Adam Gasko helped finance the Schaefer Beer company in the 1940s. But the […] Skip to content. All Sections.