NASA employee retirement memento from Dick Johnston autographed 11/17/75

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NASA employee retirement memento from Richard S. Johnston autographed 11/17/75
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Fabulous piece of NASA history!
RICHARD S. JOHNSTON, born October 1, 1926 in Keyser, West Virginia died Thursday, July 14, 2005. Born in Keyser, West Virginia, Richard's family moved to a small town outside Washington D.C. when he was a child. After attending school and serving briefly in the U.S. Navy, he returned home to study at the University of Maryland. There, he pursued his interest in sports as catcher on the baseball team. One summer, he obtained a job at the Naval Research Lab and found, to his great surprise, that he loved chemistry and math. He changed his major to chemistry and after graduation in 1952, worked as a researcher. Three years later, he transferred to U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. He watched the Soviet-launched Sputnik race over the skies in 1959 and, days later, applied to join the NASA Space Task Group. Richard became the sub-system manager for the Mercury Environmental Control System which developed the spacesuit. He organized the Crew Systems Division and served a it's chief for six years, working on flight experiments for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. In 1972, Richard became Director of Space and Life Sciences. He continued in that capacity until his retirement. He was awarded two NASA Exceptional Services medals and the Jefferies Award, the AIAA Aerospace Contribution to Society Award, the AAS Victor Prather Award, and the University of Maryland Distinguished Citizen Award. Following his retirement from NASA, he worked at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and later, the Texas Medical Center. Until ill health forced him to retire, he was running his own consulting company.
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