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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. Stephen Garrett

Career Emphasis: Program Planning and Controls
Born: September 23, 1940 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mr. Garrett joined the Apollo Space Program in Huntsville, Alabama in April 1964: being transferred from the USAF Minuteman Missile Wing IV in Missouri. He was a Boeing Industrial Engineer-Schedule Planner, assigned to a small Boeing team collocated with the Saturn V NASA Program Office to develop Master Schedules and to develop a unique management control system for NASA's Saturn V Launch Vehicle Manager, Dr. Arthur Rudolph.

His specific assignment was to participate in the development and maintenance of a meeting facility which would provide Dr Rudolph and his NASA management team ready access to Saturn V plans, progress and visibility of problems relative to established baselines. This effort required definition of responsibilities, facilities and equipment, management control procedures and devices, and the diversified methods of displaying data.

Mr. Garrett was transferred to NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC in June 1967 to lead the development of a similar complex for the NASA Apollo Program Director, in support of the redesign of the Apollo spacecraft after the fire aboard Apollo I. He then was collocated with the NASA Spacecraft Office with responsibility for integration of the master schedules and for contractor surveillance.

Mr. Garrett was honored among others in the Boeing Company's Apollo/Saturn V Roll of Honor, dated 30 January, 1970, for his significant contribution toward the completion and submittal of a new Technology Disclosure entitled: "Management Control System Plan." Mr. Garrett left the Apollo Program and The Boeing Company shortly after the successful return to Earth of Apollo XIII in 1970.

He joined The McDonnell Aircraft Company in St. Louis, Missouri at the beginning of the F-15A Air Superiority Aircraft development as the focal for F-15 Program plans and information. He was responsible for all F-15 Program briefing materials and for program reporting to the USAF.

In 1979, Mr. Garrett returned to the Boeing Company at the company's Wichita Division, in Wichita, Kansas. He led various senior planning groups on military aircraft modification and research tasks. Moving to commercial aircraft in 1991, he developed and guided the implementation of the facilities plan for accommodating the much larger, and more automated, design, fabrication and assembly tools needed in Wichita for the Boeing 777 and the New-Generation 737.

Mr. Garrett retired from The Boeing Company in June 1999, with combined service in space and aviation of thirty-five years.