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Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Friend
Honored by:
G. Richard Sharp-BS Industrial Engineering (New York University); MS Engineering Mechanics (Case Western Reserve University); PE Ohio. Employment: 1956-1958 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; 1958-1963 Goodyear Aerospace Corporation; 1963-1993 NASA (Chief Engineer of Space Experiments Division 1991-1993). Has extensive spacecraft structures design, analysis and fabrication experience including graphite and metal matrix composites. Has authored or co-authored 44 reports.
Designed Space Electric Rocket Test (SERT II). spacecraft structure (Prototype in Smithsonian collection) . This spacecraft was the first to test Ion propulsion in orbit.
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