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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Ms. Margarete D. Levy

Jonathan flashed through our universe as a shining star and brilliant young man. He started reading as a toddler, and from an early age focused much of his reading and learning about flight and space, and was also quite knowledgeable about military and NASA aircraft and space vehicles and programs. He was very much into science fiction
and postulating what the future might bring to flight and space travel. In high school, when he received the huge blow of the diagnosis of leukemia, he did not give up his hope for the future and kept up with his studies despite the debilitating effects of his treatment, which made him too ill to attend about half of his classes. He still managed to be a top
student, Maryland Distinguished Scholar, National Merit Finalist, winner of the prestigious Francis Scott Key Scholarship, and Valedictorian of the J F Kennedy High School Class of ‘89. He worked for the US Navy at the Naval Surface Warfare Center,as the engineers’ resource person (self-taught) in CAD. He also worked at Goddard Space Flight Center in the Extra Terrestrial Physics Lab, helping senior researchers in the
modeling of the development of the Solar System. He also worked in a team effort with the other interns on a plan to send a spacecraft to Mars, including the propulsion, life- support, landing, and logistics systems. His interests in flight encompassed many areas, and one of his favorite places to visit was the national Air and Space Museum(where he often went to look at the exhibit showing the first Apollo mission to the Moon using the
Moon camera that his father, Arthur Levy (see his listing as well) helped develop. His death of leukemia, just 10 days past his 20th birthday, was the impetus for Star Trek writer, Howard Weinstein, to name a spaceship, the “USS Jonathan Levy”, “a scientific
survey vessel which was not able to complete its’ mission”*(*from “Perchance To
Dream”). The “USS Jonathan Levy’ also appeared in a number of Star Trek comic
books.
His parents, Arthur and Margarete Levy, memorialize his life interests in the community. One way is by arranging astronauts and other speakers, to make enrichment appearances at Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, MD. They actively seek ways to foster these
educational opportunities in his memory.
It is fitting that his name and life, be a part of this new facility, due to Jonathan’s
intelligence, knowledge, and interests in the underlying basis of this Museum, and he
would have been intensely proud to have his name on the Wall of Honor.