Background
Wood, Loren Edwin was born on December 25, 1927 in Taunton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Elmer Roe and Alice Eleanor (Philbrick) Wood.
consultant aerospace engineering administrator
Wood, Loren Edwin was born on December 25, 1927 in Taunton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Elmer Roe and Alice Eleanor (Philbrick) Wood.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Brown University, 1949. Master of Arts in Mathematics Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, 1950.
Teaching fellow, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1949-1950; manager Minuteman silo development instrumentation, TRW Inc., Redondo beach, California, 1958-1960; manager Apollo engineering and operations support projects, TRW Inc., Houston, 1966-1972; manager shuttle computer systems and software integration, TRW Inc., Houston, 1973-1974; manager shuttle payload flight control studies, TRW Inc., Houston, 1975-1977; manager advanced programs and program development, TRW Inc., Houston, 1978-1987; manager space program integration, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California, 1961; manager Gemini launch vehicle and target vehicle flight testing, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California, 1962-1966; manager Apollo mission model development and calculations, White House Committee Select Actual Lunar Landing Mission Model, Washington, 1961; engineer manager instrumentation projects, space shuttle program, Rockwell International, Houston, 1988-1994; engineer manager space station command-data system/interface projects, Boeing, Houston, since 1994. Speaker to technical societies, radio, television, civic clubs.
Organizer, administrator youth football and baseball leagues, Friendswood, Texas, 1967-1969. Member city Charter Commission, Friendswood, 1970-1971, Friendswood City Council, 1977-1983. Founding trustee Houston Graduate School Theology, since 1983, Biblical Resources, Inc., since 1989.
Captain United States Air Force, 1954-1967. Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate, chairman outstanding national special events by section 1971-1973, chairman outstanding national section 1975-1976). Member Instrumentation Society of America (senior ), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Ann H. Hamilton, August 6, 1952. Children: Joan, Alice, Scott, Carol.