Arthur K. Davenport is an aviation and aerospace engineer who worked for Hamilton Standard and the Boeing Company. Here he is interviewed about his career, focusing on the design and development of the Apollo spacesuit’s Life Support System backpack.
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George W.S. Abbey was a NASA administrator who worked on numerous human spaceflight programs and served as Director of the Johnson Space Center (Texas). Listen to his interview about his aerospace career and his contributions to human spaceflight.
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Iva L. (Fullerton) Metz worked as a secretary with the U.S. Navy, North American Aviation, and at Cape Canaveral during the Apollo and Skylab programs. In this interview, she discusses her life and her career in the aviation and aerospace industries from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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In 1969, when Mark Armstrong was six years old, he and his family watched from the Kennedy SpaceCenter in Florida as his father, Neil Armstrong, along with fellow crew members Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, were launched aboard the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle. Here he discusses his childhood memories of his father, his interest in physics and software programming. His thoughts on the Space Program and his position as a trustee at The Museum of Flight.
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Richard F. “Dick” Gordon was a naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut who participated in the Gemini and Apollo programs. This interview details his experiences as a naval aviator and test pilot during the 1950s, including his time testing the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II and his record-setting cross-country flight during Project LANA, and his career with NASA during the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Robert Alexander was an engineer for Lockheed for more than three decades and worked on projects such as the Hubble Space Telescope. Topics discussed in this interview include his personal background,the development and legacy of the Hubble, and his work as a Museum of Flight docent.
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Soyeon Yi is an engineer, scientist, and astronaut who, in April 2008, became the first Korean citizen to participate in a spaceflight mission. Yi describes her spaceflight experiences, including her training in Russia with Roscomos, her time on the International Space Station, and her work with KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute) after returning to Earth.
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