PROGRAMS:

COMPANIES:

• McDonnell
• McDonnell Douglas

LOCATIONS:

Huntington Beach CA, Huntsville AL

POSITIONS:

Physicist, Sr. Staff Engineer

COMMENTS:

Jim worked for McDonnell Douglas on the Apollo program as a physicist from 1966-1977, including Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz in Huntington Beach CA, and later on various Space Shuttle Payloads (Spacelab and SPACEHAB) from 1981-1999 in Huntsville AL. He was one of the very last contractor Apollo workers to be laid off before resuming his career on Shuttle.  He worked incredibly long hours meeting scores of strict Apollo deadlines. Jim received several prestigious awards including a Silver Snoopy for payload process innovation in 1992.

Jim was primarily responsible for instrumentation lighting systems and methods process engineering. Prior to working in the space industry, he was a physicist and engineer for Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, CA until 1966. He graduated from Bucknell University with a BS in Physics in 1954.

Jim continued to work hard improving worker safety through Stage IV Leukemia from which he passed on.