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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

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Dr. Kelley's career has included Air Force systems program management of the pioneering, Titan series of space launch vehicles which launched such space craft as the Vikings
to Mars and the Grand Tour spare: craft to the outer planets in the 1970s He wrote the
development concept paper which led to the funding and implementation of the Titan 34D Space Launch Vehicle, which was specifically developed for transitioning Titan payloads4o the Space Shuttle. He was a NASA Faculty Fellow at the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1969 and was leader{and briefer to Dr. Von Braun of the conceptual design study of a 35 -man space station called the Space Technology Applications Research Laboratory (STARLAB), NASA Contractor Report CR-61296. Dr. Kelley-was Associate Dean the School of Engineering of the Air Force Institute of Technology and an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering. While there he was selected to be a member of the U.S. Presidential Team which went to Brazil to develop technical interchange programs with the Brazilian Air Force. He was an Assistant Professor of Astronautics at the U.S. Air Force Academy and directed the first space systems design course in the Department of Astronautics and Computer Science. Its subject was an orbit-to-orbit shuttle, and it received Air Force wide recognition. Dr. Kelley has a PhD, MST and BS in Aerospace Engineering. The subject of his doctoral dissertation was "Some Optimal Trajectories of a Hypervelocity Lifting Vehicle," University of Colorado, 1968. His other positions have included manager of range support contracts at the White Sands Missile Range and the Kwajalein Missile Range, Measurements Department Manager for contract support of the Radar Backscatter Range at Holloman Air Force Base. Director of the Air Force Central Inertial Guidance Test Facility, Executive Secretary for the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Avionics Maintenance Officer, and Minuteman Targeting Officer.