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Position SENIOR PRODUCT ENGINEER (LG 20)

Name R, J, Theodor off_______________________ Clearance SECRET______________

Degree(s) B ,S. A.E , Professional Experience Years

Education

B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Purdue University, 1958

Experience

Mr. Theodoroff is a lead engineer in the Structural Design Section, Structures &
Mechanics Engineering Department. During the past three years, he has been actively
engaged in structural and mechanical preliminary design studies on a recoverable data
capsule, an earth orbital stage resupply study, a LEM experiment integration study for
an Apollo mission program, and the Voyager Spacecraft. His most recent applicable
assignment was to perform the structural stiffness and stress analysis of a film storage
and transport mechanism housing.

He has extensive experience in the design of missile and airframe structures, having
designed the upper nose cone for the Saturn IB-203 vehicle and supervised the production
of drawings required to document the final release configuration. For thirteen months, he
was responsible for the supervision of a structural design group consisting of five engineers
and two layout draftsmen. He designed the shroud outrigger doors, the purge line and
electrical quick-disconnect brackets, and the water quench system support structure for
the Saturn I, Block I vehicles. He also designed the upper and lower segmented rings, the
fin support fittings, and the joints where these were joined by the outriggers, shrouds, and
fins for the Saturn I, Block II vehicles. In addition, he completed an extensive redesign of
the second stage adapter for Block II and for more than a year he monitored all structural
design changes to the S-IV stage for the MSFC Structural Design Branch.

Previous to November 1959, he was employed by North American Aviation Company,
where he designed stainless steel honeycomb air inlet duct panels, fusel age skin panels,
and canted bulkhead ring caps for the F-108 fighter; and by Douglas Aircraft Company,
where he assisted in the design of floor and skin panels, frames, and bulkheads for the DC-
8 jet airliner.

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