electrical and electronic engineering, worked 31 years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, first at the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico and then at Barstow, California, where he helped establish the Goldstone Tracking Station. After retirement, he worked for Space Com in Redondo Beach, California, where he worked on a satellite that was to be released by the ill-fated Challenger shuttle. He lived in Braselton, Georgia.