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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

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Profile of James Raymond Eckels

Graduated BSME from Univ. of Pittsburgh 1961
Spent the first 10 years of my career as a migrant Missile Worker in the Space Program:
Inertial Nav. Systems for the Command Module, SINS, and Minuteman
Fuel control system for S4B Stage and Skylab
Liquid Injection Thrust Vector Control for booster
Inertial Nav. System for Shuttle Re-entry Research Vehicle
Re-entry Research Launch Vehicle
Qualification Team for the Lunar Excursion Vehicle at MSC

After the first Moon Landing, my varied engineering background got me a position at Westinghouse Research working on materials research:
The first LED flat screen display
Electron Beam Lithography for Sub Micron feature size chips for fast avionics
These million transistor chips led to smart phones and flat tv's
The first electrically launched vehicle to reach escape velocity
Many other composite and high temperature materials programs

Westinghouse went out of business, and I ended up at Harris ,who abruptly ended my career at age 50.

I went sailing, and retired as a Yacht Broker. I thank the Space Program for a fascinating career.