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REDIRECT William Edgar Thornton Category:Astronaut-Cosmonaut

REDIRECT William Edgar Thornton

... . Johnston was gone, and then he returned. I went to the Engineering and Development Directorate E&D and was assigned to the Space Shuttle Program Office as the Engineering Directorate representative ... then came as a mentor for a young engineer with Boeing, and I've been working as a consultant part-time with Boeing since then, and have just activated some hardware that ... negotiating with the payloads for thermal control and all of these things E&D provided. And so when Larry Williams moved up, they picked me to take over that organization. It was ...

... that it was meritorious to do this. This was in the James E. "Jimmy" Carter administration. The OMB chairman was a man by the ... But I think the key to all of this was that Mr. William P. Rogers was able to get between us and Congress and was ... situation of aeronautical policy, which was run by Jack Steiner phonetic of Boeing, and we ultimately put together a book of policy guidance, which had ...

... datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Bruce E. Melnick header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = 1949 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = ... Titusville, the organization has approximately 2,400 employees. Services provided by Boeing in Florida include engineering, facilities and maintenance support to NASA ...

... E. Williams titlestyle = image = Image:Astronaut_williams-d.jpg 200px imagestyle = caption = Donald E. Williams captionstyle = headerstyle = background: ccf; labelstyle = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Donald E. Williams ... the USS ENTERPRISE with CVW-14 staff and Attack Squadron 97. Williams completed a total of 330 combat missions. In 1973, Williams attended the Armed Forces Staff college. He graduated from the ...

... . '''Fielder:''' Yes. Condean was a little spinoff. One of the guys who worked at G.E., General Electric Company, Canadian electric company, of Canadian General Electric, was a kind of an ... the drawing office and the design office to somewhere in California, North American Aviation, Inc. , Boeing Airplane Company maybe, whatever, on a lease basis, on the premise that AVRO would still ... contractors, all the North American-Rockwells, or whoever they were in those days, and the Boeings, or whatever, were all looking for something major to get involved in, because that’s ...

... = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = William F. Readdy header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Jan 24 1952 header4 = label4 = Birth ... , Houston, Texas, where he served as program manager for the highly-modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. He was selected as an astronaut in the 1987 ...

... . They came in two groups. One was the operations people, primarily the Walt Walter C. Williams and Chris Christopher C. Kraft Jr. people at that time, and then the instrumentation people, which I think were subservient to Walt Williams, and the man most notable at that time was G. Barry Graves. When we first ... think he's about sixty-eight. Another stalwart that I think of is Cliff Clifford E. Charlesworth, who was a deputy center director for a period of time. I always had ...

... . He translated a famous book on this subject which almost certainly had an effect on William. Meanwhile, William was doing what most young students seem to do at college, making lifelong friendships ... day, young in years but mature in thought and observation (Professor William Thomson)". It would be another two years before William Thomson and his colleague Peter Guthrie Tait would begin work on ... we knew that the universe was so vast. Later he would demonstrate his understanding of E=½mv2 in an essay on the safety of trains in Canada. Over 18 months after ...

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