PROGRAMS:

COMPANIES:

• Lockheed Space Operations Company
• Planning Research

LOCATIONS:

John F. Kennedy Space Center
Johnson Space Center

POSITIONS:

Structural Engineer
Stress Engineer
Flight Crew Systems Engineer

COMMENTS:

Worked on the Space Shuttle program three (3) times: 2 at the Kennedy Space Center in the early days of the design, development, and construction of the Launch Facilities at Launch Complex 39A and later during the early launches of the Space Shuttle Orbiter until the catastrophic disaster of the Challenger vehicle. The third (3^rd) time was spent working at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The first time was spent doing structural and stress analyses on the launch facility static structures and structural mechanisms that supported the launch of the Space Shuttle vehicle such as:

• Tail Service Mast interior structural mechanisms
• Solid Rocket Holddown Posts
• Test Structures
• SRB Holddown Post Release Mechanism
• Rolling Beam Umbilical System

My second tenure was as a Flight Crew Systems Engineer working closely with the Space Shuttle Astronauts by originating installation instructions (via TPSs) for on-orbit Cargo Bay experiments and equipment and by helping them prepare for launch and on-orbit duties via CEITs (Crew Equipment Interface Tests) at the Orbiter Processing Facility. Additionally, I updated the appropriate OMIs (Operation and Maintenance Instructions).

My third tenure was at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX performing stress analyses on interior Space Station hardware and also as the Chief Structural Engineer on a NASA project exploring the feasibility of a space vehicle that would operate between some smaller size, future space station between the International Space Station and the Moon.