PROGRAMS:

COMPANIES:

• NASA
• U S Army
• Western Electric

LOCATIONS:

NASA at Kennedy Space Center

POSITIONS:

Mechanical Engineer, Apollo - launch control, Skylab, Shuttle -Payload ?????

COMMENTS:

Robert G. Young was born in ????Clark, New Jersey and relocated to Decatur Georgia with his family.

He studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech until two years in, the program suffered an ill-fated circumstance challenging Robert to decide between entering the new industrial engineering program or continuing with his career in music which was going well playing guitar with bands through college. He completed his baccalaureate coursework in 1959 and while waiting for his ???commission to start with the U.S. Army, he worked in NJ with ??? developing??? radar ????measure transistors, vacuum tubes and early integrated circuits while awaiting his commission in the U.S. Army. Later that year he left for Fort Huachuca, AZ where he was stationed with U.S. Army as a Second Lieutenant. He learned about flying while he designed field engineering tests for /??? in the testing of linear???/ airborn radar avionics,??/such as???  communication and stabilization augmentation systems for helicopters. He then compiled and reported the results in scientific reports???  He was awarded his degree in Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech’s annual ceremony with the class of 1960.

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He studied electrical engineering at Georgia Tech until two years in, the program suffered an ill-fated circumstance challenging Robert to decide between entering the new industrial engineering program or continuing with his career in music which was going well playing guitar with bands through college. He completed his baccalaureate coursework in 1959 and while waiting for his ???commission/orders??? with the U.S. Army, he worked in ???? NJ with ??? developing??? radar ????measure transistors, vacuum tubes and early integrated circuits. Later that year he left for Fort Huachuca, AZ where he was ???stationed??? as a 2nd???/???Second Lieutenant. There he learned about flying while he designed field engineering tests and compiled the results into scientific reports involving ???for /??? in the testing of linear???/ airborn radar avionics,??/such as??? communication and stabilization augmentation systems for helicopter, compiled and wrote scientific reports of the results???

He was awarded his degree in Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech’s annual ceremony with the class of 1960.

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From 19XX to 19XX he worked for Western Electric in ???Atlanta, Georgia???, then relocated to Titusville, Florida in 1964 to help with the innovations and planning for the Apollo Program. With the Mercury??? Geminii??? Program coming to an end, he worked for NASA on Merritt Island, in the “tar paper shack” within a Cape Canaveral hanger near/at?? the future site of Launch Complex 39 including Pads A & B as well as the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), which later became known as Kennedy Space Center.

Prior to the NASA causeway completed in 1968???

During the Apollo launches he manned a console??? was a manager??? in the firing room and during the launch of the shuttles he worked along  side the launch operations ??? manager???

???specificatin for the buildings for the eventual KSC???

GS-11

Telemetric Systems Division as technical assistance to the Chief

GS-IR

Space Shuttle Program

OMD Operations and Maintence Documentation Board, headed ground operations as chair of main launch.designer

GS 13  as an aerospace technologist

2nd site activation for Space Shuttle as OMD operations and Maintenace documentation??? ground operations support documentation????

1st level direct support operations???

Manned Space Center Fla Operations – astronauts, lunaar landers, appollo capsules

10 years at the Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) seen from the new NASA causeway as the building with many  ???12-16 ft??? in diameter antennas on its roof.

the antenna site with 30ft diameter tracking initial launches of Apollo vehicles and later the Shuttles.

Member of launch vehicle team

info from capsule “Tel”emtery Airforce

There was a Manned Space Flight Operations Building – astronauts, serviced and tested lunar landers

???altitude chambers pulled a vacuum to test pressure of space???

Johnson Space Center, Houston

Headquarters building for preparation for the Shuttle Program

CIF with 2 huge IBM 360 computers that filled half the floor and 2 tell or tele??? stations that took up hal f the floor (another floor???) plus labs, offices, and cafeteria.

????In February 1964, construction on the Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) began. The CIF is the core of instrumentation and data processing operations at KSC, which includes offices, laboratories and test stations. Formerly known as the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, the Operations and Checkout Building (O&C) was opened during the fall of 1964 and was used to test Apollo spacecraft, and the Command and Lunar modules. With the start of shuttle operations, it was utilized to process and integrate shuttle experiments and payloads.???

at the Kennedy Space Center.

volunteer escort for VIPs including briefing on current mission

Apollo, SkyLab, Space Shuttle

His father-in-law, William J. Rooks, was a NASA employee at KSC and retired in 1975 is also honored with a plaque on the Apollo monument at Space View Park in Titusville, Florida as part of the American Space Museum and Spacewalk of Fame.

In his

He retired in 1996 after receiving multiple “Sustained Superior Performance Awards” during his after 32  years of leading edge work with the Mercury/Geminii???, Apollo, SkyLab, Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.

Secretary on two incident boards

1. Magellan interplanetary payload (Saturn)

moon, sun, planet unmanned

2. Atlas/Centaur

IC Bill modified to carry people – Mercury capsules on Atlas ???? then Titans ????

Skylab

Shuttle payloads

ISSS INtegration Progject Manager  in Shuttle Project offices (Caps???) for Space Station and Space Shuttle Integration????

KSC operations interface for shuttle shuttle space station integration ?????

Launch Site Support site manager

Customer interface??? early planning partners with KSC ie for Shuttle payloads???

Other Achievements and Affiliations:
Phi Kappa Tau fraternity member, Toastmasters International – member and state-level award-winning speaker, President of Toastmasters – Titusville, FL Chapter, Power Squadron member and graduate, Sailing yachtsman, musician – ???lead??? Guitar  solo and ensemble gigs???, Karaoke DJ & singer, avid land-yacht traveler by motor home for 50 years, ???-time President of ?????? at The Great Outdoors?????, ???Chamber, ???Elks Club member