Dr. Henry T. Nagamatsu

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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

1956-1976 General Electric Company: General Manager of Advanced Programs including advanced activities for the space and reentry. Programs included Nimbus, Landsat, Corona, Manned Orbital Lab, Japanese Broadcast Satellite, Snap 27, and Helios.
1976-1981 USERDA Deputy Director of Research, Development and Demonstration. Director, Office of Coal Resource Management.
11981-1987 Atlantic Research Corp: Director of Operations and Vice President of ARCOAL.
1987-1991 Grumman Corp: Space Station Integration Contractor. Asst to Technical Director.
1991-1993 Consultant Space Station contract with the Grumman Corp. with IDA on a contract with NASA Headquarters.
1993 to Present Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Volunteer for history on the research aircraft: X-1, X-1A, and X-2. X-16 and other airplanes of that era. History of GE space activities at Valley Forge and display of the history of aeronautical engineering in the past 100 years since the Wright Brothers.
Professional Activities
AIAA, Fellow, and continuous member since 1941, Chairman of greater Philadelphia Chapter, Member of Management and Spacecraft committees.
Recipient of Convair Fellowship
Tau Beta Pi