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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Randall Roman

Harold A. Roman had a passion for flight. He and his son, Randy spent endless hours at local airports watching the light planes takeoff and land, and so the love of aviation was passed down. Harold Roman got his Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) license in the mid 1950's after going to night school even while being employed as an engineer with Aerojet General Corporation in Sacramento, CA. He was also a graduate of Northwestern University.
His career reached its peak with his dream job: mechanical engineer with NASA in Huntsville, AL. He worked with NASA through the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. He worked as a "First Article Configuration Inspector" with NASA as IBM built the guidance system assembly ring on the Saturn V moon mission and continued in that capacity through the Skylab and Space Shuttle programs.
Mr. Roman retired from NASA in 1975. He was not "put out to pasture" but actually converted one into an airport; a grass strip called "Moontown Airport" near Huntsville. He insisted he was not in it to make money but to provide services to help people afford to fly.
NASA Astronaut Jan Dozier was a close friend, and she learned to fly at that airport. Harold A. Roman got his private pilot's license after he retired from NASA because of his life-long passion for flying. "Onward and upward, Harold Roman." "Keep your head on a swivel," he always advised his pilot friends.