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Worked for NASA from Mercury until Space Shuttle in Instrmentation

Bruce was a long time NASA employee from Mercury through Shuttle. He worked in the CCF in Instrumentation. His wife Darlene worked briefly in the Astronaut Office during Mercury. I’ll see if our grandson can find a biography or something to fill out his page a bit.

I did find him listed as a source in “Computers in Spaceflight- The NASA Experience” and this in that document:

“Kennedy acquired two General Electric 635 computers for telemetry monitoring and batch processing of institutional programs. GE 635s were 36-bit processors capable of double-precision arithmetic28. Programmers prepared separate code for each of the Delta, Atlas-Centaur, and Saturn flight vehicles. Delta and Atlas launch pads, as well as Complexes 34, 37, and 39, could be switch connected to the computers at any one time. Forty different displays were possible and could be transmitted to the appropriate blockhouse or Launch Control Center firing room29. NASA’s Bruce Miller was in charge of systems programming for the GE computers, with Bradley Hughes as the chief scientific programmer.”

Also found this from his obituary:

He went to work for NASA in 1961 and it was the job of his dreams. He loved his work and was able to participate in the making of history in the early days of the space industry. From the days of project Mercury through the operational phase of the Shuttle. Most of his time was spentIN MANAGEMENT of a Computer Operations facility processing engineering data for all Launch Vehicles. Among all of his accolades he was most proud of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal awarded in 1973. He retired after 31 years of service.