Bob Pace

Bob Pace

Bob was raised in middle Tennessee. He entered the Navy in 1944, then went to college at Tennesee Tech (earning a BS in electrical engineering). Following work with the TVA, he would join the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (at Redstone Arsenal) in 1956, beginning with the Launching and Handling Laboratory. Bob provides a detailed chronology of his career: he would serve some time as a NASA representative at Lockheed, then returned to Huntsville as an assistent on the Agena program. In June 1963 he would take a year-long fellowship at MIT, where he would recieve a master's in management. Bob also discusses various personalities he encountered in his career. He worked on Skylab's Integration and Engineering office, as well as in operations support, which he discusses aspects of in detail. Following Skylab, he joined the Materials and Processes laboratory as the deputy director, where he remained nearly 2 years. Bob also discusses relations with the European Space Agency (as with Spacelab), and other positions before his retirement from MSFC in 1981, as well as a study he performed on the selection of contractors. Following his NASA retirement, he would found Pace and Wade, Inc. with Jack Wade, which would serve as a temporary-position based operation for supporting NASA (which eventually became a full-time operation). He would remain with that company until 2003, where it would be sold to another local company, and he would fully retire.

University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama

2006-7

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