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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. Robert M. Bochar

The following letter was sent to Mr. John Bochar, Engineer in the Navigational and Control Division of the Bendix, Corp. in New Jersey. Mr. Bochar as Senior Engineer contributed to the Apollo 8 Saturn Spacecraft Program by managing the Gyroscope and Accelerometer Test Area. Mr. Bochar also performed product value/failure analysis and provided engineering support to production activities in the "White (clean) Room." Mr. Bochar was awarded a Commemorative Medallion that contained the melt of an aluminum ball that flew in space.

The letter Mr. Bochar received reads as follows:

July 1969

To the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Saturn/Apollo Program:

On behalf of the Apollo 8 Crew, Astronauts Borman, Lovell, and Anders, it gives me great pleasure to award you the attached Commemorative Medallion of their historic lunar orbiting mission. It is their way of saying, "Thank you for a job well done." May I also add my congratulations and say that the Navigation and Control Division takes great pride in your performance and your contribution to mankind's greatest technological venture -- the first manned space flight to the moon.

You will note the reverse side of the medallion contains an inscription authenticating that it was struck from an alloy containing in its melt ball an aluminum ball carried on the flight by Astronaut Borman in his personal effects bag.

/s/ Charles E. Rowett

Charles E. Rowett
Vice President and General Manager
Bendix Corporation