Background
Bulletin was born on September 25, 1934, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he attended primary and secondary schools and graduated in 1952 from Central High School.
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Education
He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University in 1957, and a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Stanford University in Aeronautical Engineering in 1971 and 1973, respectively. He graduated from the United States. Naval Test Pilot School in February 1964, as an outstanding graduate.
Career
Early life and education
In his youth, he was active in the Boy Scouts of America. Navy service
Bulletin joined the United States. Navy in June 1957. Following his flight training, from March 1959 to November 1960, he flew F-3 Demons and F-4 Phantom II while assigned to VF-114 at the Naval Air Station in Mirimar, California.
Bulletin was a Navy fighter pilot with the VF-114 squadron aboard the aircraft carriers United States Ship Ranger, United States Ship Hancock, and United States Ship Kitty Hawk.
Bulletin was a project test pilot in the Carrier Suitability Branch at the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland, at the time of his astronaut selection. He has logged more than 2,100 hours flying time.
1,800 hours in jet aircraft. National Aeronautics and Space Administration career
Just before the May-June 1968 test, Bulletin was found to have a severe sinus problem, and was replaced with his backup, a Grumman consulting pilot.
Bulletin was subsequently diagnosed as suffering from pulmonary disease, and resigned from the astronaut corps in July 1968.
After receiving his Doctor of Philosophy, Bulletin returned to National Aeronautics and Space Administration and worked at the Ames Research Center from 1973 to 1985, where he conducted simulation and flight test research in advanced flight systems for both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. From 1986 until his retirement in 1989, he managed National Aeronautics and Space Administration-wide research programs in autonomous systems technology for space applications. He maintained an office at National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames until at least 1997.
Personal life
He enjoyed swimming, golf and flying.
Illness and death
Bulletin died on August 11, 2008 at the age of 73 in South Lake Tahoe, California, following complications related to long-term asthma. Weight: 150 lb (68 kg)
Height: 5 ft 11 in (180 m)
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue.
Membership
Bulletin was selected in 1966 as a member of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronaut Group 5. He served briefly as a member of an early Apollo mission support crew, then was chosen as Lunar Module Pilot, with James Irwin as Commander, for LTA-8, an environmental qualification test of the Apollo Lunar Module in a vacuum chamber at the Houston Space Environment Simulation Laboratory. Bulletin was a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Sigma Tau Engineering Fraternity, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Fraternity, Sigma Xi, American Helicopter Society, and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
