Celestis Memorial Spaceflights -- Additional Aerospace Professionals

We invite you to read the stories of the many aerospace professionals who have participated on Celestis Memorial Spaceflights.
William Reuel Barnett, Jr. Mechanical engineer; B-58 Hustler Project; Manager, Aerospace Corporation; "The Quiet Man of Rocket Engines" ~			Lorraine Ann (Raymond) Barnum Electrical engineer; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center ~
Charles Benavides Engineer for Martin Marietta, NASA, General Electric, GTE Sylvania, Aerospace Corp., and Boeing ~			Charles Oren Bennett Design Illustrator; Boeing, Martin-Marietta; Titan rocket, space shuttle, Mars Viking Lander, Skylab ~
Lt.Col. Sidney (Brad) C. Bradfield, USAF (Ret.) Fighter Pilot U.S. Air Force ~			Charles A. Carr Space educator; California Museum of Science & Industry ~
Raul Castro Electronics technician; IBM, Bendix, NASA, Digilog and Unisys ~			Gary Jay Close Astronomer; Director of the Hopkins Planetarium ~
David Ralph Compton Aircraft mechanic; Work on the space shuttle, space station, satellites ~			L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. One of the original Mercury 7 astronauts ~
Thomas F. Davey United Airlines mechanic ~			Ronald F. Dettling Mechanical engineer, Head of Power Systems Branch, Navy Department, China Lake ~
William Richard Galt Duane, Jr. Electrical/communication engineer, technical writer, radar expert, test director, computer programmer, system analyst, pilot; Bell Labs; NASA flight controller ~			Krafft A. Ehricke Propulsion engineer; Inventor of the Centaur launch vehicle; Co-developer of the Atlas launch vehicle ~
Daniel Neil Elsberry Naval aviator ~			Steven H. Face Engineer, Northrop Grumman ~
Beaufort Franklin Mechanical engineer; Worked on Polaris missile, Titan IIIC rocket programs; Co-founder of the original Celestis company ~			Daniel Robert Fullmer Apollo program ~
Stephen S. Gauvain Science/NASA television news reporter ~			Stephen Lee Gubelmann Pilot, computer scientist, entrepreneur ~
Charles L. Hamilton, Jr. Pilot, aerospace entrepreneur ~			Benson Hamlin Aeronautical engineer; Principal designer of the preliminary concept for the Bell X-1; Apollo program; Author ~
Todd B. Hawley Co-founder and Executive Director of the Space Generation Foundation; Solar power satellite researcher; SEDS Chair ~			Marshall Harold Heim Communications and tracking operations, NASA, US Army; Entrepreneur ~
Robert Hollis Hensleigh Project Engineer, Bell Helicopter; Entrepreneur; Pilot ~			Michael Warren Huffman Pilot, Emery Worldwide Airlines; Member of American Society of Aerospace Pilots ~
Charles E. Johannsen Physicist, Bell & Howell ~			Frank Lathrop Jones Aerospace engineer; reentry missile technology ~
Vernal Josephson Physicist; Co-developer of radar at MIT Radiation Lab; Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories; Aerospace Corporation ~			Frank T. Kantrowitz Physicist; Worked on Very Large Array radio observatory; White Sands Missile Range; NATO ~
James C. Kuhl Pilot; Co-founder of the original Celestis company ~			William Joseph Lilly Air Force flight line mechanic ~
Loyd G. Luoma Personnel, Lockheed Missiles & Space Company ~			Leonard Michael Majeske Aerospace engineer ~
Harold C. “Hap” Marks, Jr. Pilot, aerospace entrepreneur ~			Thomas Eugene Martin Mechanical engineer, Martin Marietta, North American Rockwell; Chief Test Conductor for the second stage for all manned moon flights, Kennedy Space Center until 1972. ~
Roland Thomas Mayer (Ro) Engineer, Piasecki Helicopter, General Electric, "Discoverer" program ~			Wallace W. Mayer Engineer for Douglas Aircraft (1936 to 1974) on projects ranging from the DC-3 to the Saturn launch vehicle ~
James D. McEachern Pilot; Flight test engineer, Lockheed Martin ~			Frederick A. Miller Engineer, North American Aviation; Apollo 11 program ~
Gerald K. O'Neil Accomplished experimental physicist, successful entrepreneur, pilot, inventor, astronaut candidate, author of The High Frontier ~			Ralph (Peter) T. Peterson Jr. Career Air Force pilot; Boeing flight instructor ~
Paul L. Pryor Research scientist, photographer; Air Force, NASA, Mercury and Apollo programs; National Geographic Society ~			Gene Reddeman Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Work on Echo, Mariner, Saturn and Ranger probes ~
Gene Roddenberry Pilot; Creator of Star Trek ~			James Edward Rogan Aerospace Engineer; McDonnell Douglas; Northrup Grumman; Space Services, Inc. ~
Keith I. Roper Chemist, Martin-Marietta; Titan missile ~			Jack Lee Saunders Physicist; Apollo; Quartz crystal industry ~
James Edward Scott Career aviator; missile operations staff officer ~			Eugene M. Shoemaker Planetary geologist; co-discover, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9; National Medal of Science 1992 ~
Lt. Col. Charles William Slack, III Career Air Force pilot; Rocketdyne ~			James Spellman, Sr. Career Air Force officer; Technical advisor for film and television ~
John Sterrett Accomplished naval scientist; Project Vanguard, Jupiter rocket program, NORAD; Worked with von Braun at NASA ~			David Houghton Suddeth NASA spacecraft engineer; Boeing, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab; Naval Research Lab/NASA's Vanguard Operations Group ~
Harry William Valentine Design engineer, Spar Aerospace; Apollo 11 ~			Jim C. Vitti Pilot; Fight instructor; FAA air traffic controller ~
Mark Charles Wallace Electronics engineer; Bell Labs; Lockheed; WESTECH ~			Mareta N. West First lunar geologist at NASA; determined landing site for Apollo 11; U.S. Geological Survey ~
William B. Whiddon Systems engineer at TRW/Northrop Grumman Space Technology; Chief Engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope ~			Charles N. Zap Computer engineer; NASA ~

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