Terry L. Sachs had a love for electronics that spanned a lifetime. He spent more than forty years as an engineering specialist in both private industry and at the U. S. Department of Defense.

During the late 1950s, he began his career at Fairchild Aircraft Corporation in Hagerstown, MD, working on aircraft instrument calibration. (Fairchild was an airplane manufacturing company.)

In the early 60s, Mr. Sachs left Fairchild to work for Westinghouse Electric Company, Air Arm Division, in Linthicum, MD. While at Westinghouse, he helped design, build and test two miniaturized TV cameras. The cameras were some of the first to use microchips to shrink electronic devices. These new cameras gave the world a live view of Neil Armstrong descending down the moon lander ladder before stepping onto the moon.

Leaving Westinghouse in the late 1960s, Mr. Sachs spent the rest of his working life as a U. S. Department of Defense civilian, retiring in 2000. During that time, he designed, built, tested and installed electronic systems at both foreign and domestic locations.

His contributions to air and space exploration as well as his service to his country while employed by the Department of Defense will long be remembered by Mr. Sachs's family, friends and former colleagues.