|
Rocketdyne Engines to Outer Space
John Halchak joined Rocketdyne in July 1962, at the beginning of the race for the Moon. He is now a Senior Fellow at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a part of United Technologies Corporation, in Canoga Park, California. Prior to this, he was the director of the Rocketdyne Materials & Processes Department for 13 years.
With over 49 years of experience in rocket engines, he has worked on virtually every major
program for that company, including such programs as the Atlas, Gemini, Saturn V, Apollo, Minuteman, Delta, Peacekeeper, Space Shuttle, Aerospike, NASP, RS-68, X-33, MB-60, and J-2X programs. During this time he has been a witness to, and participant in, many of the historical events in the space program, and has had opportunities to accumulate information from many of the pioneers in rocket development, including some of the original German Peenemunde engineers. This talk will present the history of Rocketdyne rocket engines.
|
|
