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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. Martin Koshar

As a Program Director while at Martin Marietta, he led the team that designed, built, tested and launched the successful Magellan Spacecraft. Magellan was the first planetary spacecraft to fly on Shuttle, the first planetary launch by the United States in ten years, the first spacecraft to use aerobraking and provided the first global, high resolution map of the surface of Venus.
Propulsion system development: Mr. Brown was responsible for the design and integration of the Viking Orbiter propulsion system. He was the originator and developer of the Autogenously pressurization system used on the Titan II ICBM and the Titan family of launch vehicles.
Educator: He taught the Elements of Spacecraft Design home study course for AIAA from the spring of 1995 to the present. He taught the Elements of Spacecraft Propulsion and Elements Of Orbital Mechanics home study course from 1997 to the present. He has taught ASEN 5148, a graduate/upperclassman course in spacecraft design at the University of Colorado since 1981.
Author: He has written two college level textbooks for AIAA; Spacecraft Mission Design and Spacecraft Propulsion published in 1996. A third textbook, Elements of Spacecraft Design is scheduled for publication in the summer of 2002. __
Honors and Awards:
The Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, Premier annual award of the National Space Club. "For great achievements in advancing ...Astronautics,” shared with six other Magellan leaders, Washington, DC, 1992.
Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award, National Society of Professional Engineers, for Magellan Design, Atlanta, 1989
Astronauts Personal Achievement Award, (the Silver Snoopy), for Magellan management, Denver, CO, 1989
NASA Public Service Award, for Viking Orbiter Propulsion System, Pasadena, CA, 1977.
Jefferson Cup, Martin Marietta, for Mariner 9, Washington, DC, 1971
JPL Award of Merit, for Magellan Spacecraft Design, Washington, DC, 1987
Jefferson Cup, Martin Marietta, for Magellan Management, Washington, DC, 1990
NASA Achievement Award, for Magellan, Denver, CO, 1989
NASA Public Service Medal, "In recognition of exceptional management of the Magellan spacecraft..," Pasadena, CA, 1992
NASA Group Achievement Award, "In recognition of outstanding achievement in the development of Magellan...." Denver, CO, 1992 _______ .