Lec 13 MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering, Fall 2005
Walt Guy's biography is on the website. I hope you've had a chance to look at it. I will just say briefly that I guess, of all the lecturers coming, that Walt is the only one who is still actually working actively for NASA. He is head of the Automation, Robotics and Simulation Division, division chief at the Johnson Space Center. But that is not what he's talking about there. He's talking about the job that he used to do for about 20 years which was head of environmental thermal life support and crew systems. And, of course, the crew system includes all the space suits and the good stuff that I was fortunate enough to get to use. So I've got a personal debt of thanks to Walt. Aaron, I think you wanted to say a couple of things so I will pass the microphone to you. Yes, I would like to say a few words about Walt. We've worked together for many years. And Walt Guy has the very unique capability of being not only an outstanding engineer, a technical p...