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Air and Space Sponsor

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David Gleich, BCE and MS Applied Mechanics, retired, was an owner and engineering executive of ARDE Inc, a designer and manufacturer of aerospace hardware. When the first astronaut stepped on the Moon he was wearing ARDE oxygen tanks on his back.

Mr Gleich, one of the obstetricians at the birth of American rocketry in the late 1940s and early 1950s, did extensive work in the design, testing, and manufacturing of solid and liquid propellant rocket hardware as well as life support and pressurization systems for space vehicles and satellites, culminating in participation in Peacekeeper, Space Shuttle, and space station projects.

As chairman of the Propulsion Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Aerospace Division he contributed to and conducted technical paper sessions at aerospace propulsion conferences for many years featuring world-wide participants.