by Jack R.
One year out of high school,
I was a technician on the Univac 1103AF that went to Lockheed in Palo Alto to
support the Discoverer/Corona Satellite program. In 1962, I came to the
"Blue Cube" in Sunnyvale as a computer operator for Lockheed. My
manager, Ray Wolf, had been the computer operator on the same 1103AF I had
helped deliver earlier. In 1964, I was sent to NASA to support the Apollo program.
Late in 1965, I joined Litton Mellonics and wrote the satellite tracking
software for the United States Air Force Remote Tracking Station Network. I
provided support to the Corona, Gambit and Hexagon satellite programs that kept
the "Cold War Cold." Joining Martin Marietta in 1989, I was a satellite
vehicle technical advisor on a major space program.
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| In 2011, I was inducted into the Air Force Space Operations Hall of Fame. |
