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posted 12/20/2020 10:46 pm
R. Gilbert Moore, a rocket propulsion engineer who spent decades 
engaging thousands of students in spaceflight experiments, died on 
Monday (Dec. 28, 2020), according to former NASA astronaut Jack Fischer 
(via Twitter <https://twitter.com/Astro2fish/status/1343758681343733762>).

    /We lost a legend today, Prof. Gil Moore, who for 7+ decades, pushed
    bounds of discovery and lit fires in 1000s of children worldwide.
    Powered by imagination and boundless enthusiasm, his impact will be
    felt for generations./

A biography from Utah State University 
<http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv44082>:

    R. Gilbert (Gil) Moore began his 60 year career as a rocket
    propulsion engineer in 1947 working as a student assistant at New
    Mexico State University's Physical Science Laboratory. As a student
    he performed radio telemetry data reduction and installed upper
    atmospheric and solar research instrumentation in captured German
    V-2 rockets. In 1949 after graduating with a B.S. degree in chemical
    engineering, he became professional staff at the Laboratory. During
    the next thirteen years he supervised teams of students and
    professionals in instrumenting and launching hundreds of flight test
    and upper atmospheric research sounding rockets from the White Sands
    Proving Grounds in New Mexico as well as from locations in the
    Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

    Moore moved to Ogden, Utah, in 1962 to become the founding general
    manager of the Astromet Division of Thiokol Corporation. During the
    next twenty years, this organization built and launched several
    hundred sounding rockets and six satellite experiments from sites
    around the world to measure various characteristics of Earth's
    ionosphere, thermosphere and magnetosphere. The Division also
    manufactured, installed and operated radio telemetry systems for
    monitoring meteorological and hydrologic variables in the mountains
    of the Western United States and Canada.

    In 1981, Mr. Moore transferred to Thiokol's Wasatch Division, where
    he served as special projects manager for the Space Shuttle solid
    rocket motor program and as principal investigator for gossamer
    space structures. He became the Thiokol Wasatch Division's director
    of external affairs in 1985 and represented the corporation to the
    press and public during the Space Shuttle Challenger accident
    investigation. He retired in 1987.

    Moore spent the next two years with Globesat, Inc., a small
    spacecraft manufacturer in Logan, Utah, as vice-president for
    advanced programs. In July of 1989 he joined Utah State University's
    Space Dynamics Laboratory as a senior research scientist. In 1994,
    he retired from SDL and moved to Monument, Colorado, to join the
    Astronautics Department of the United States Air Force Academy as
    the first occupant of the General Bernard A. Schriever Chair in
    Space Systems Engineering. During the next two years, he led an
    initiative to teach upper-division cadets to design and build small
    spacecraft for flight on military launch vehicles. After setting up
    an extremely successful program, he retired from the Air Force in 1996.

    After retiring from the U.S. Air Force Academy, Moore established
    Project Starshine, a volunteer student satellite project designed to
    measure the response of Earth's atmosphere to storms on the Sun,
    during an eleven-year solar cycle. Some 25,030 children in 660
    schools in 18 countries worked in teams to polish 878 mirrors that
    covered the outside of the satellite and reflected flashes of
    sunlight to ground-based observers during twilight passes of the
    satellite over their locations. Between 2000 and 2002 two more
    Starshine Satellites were launched into orbit. In addition to
    introducing students to space research, important data was gathered
    for the science community on the effects of solar extreme
    ultraviolet radiation on satellite orbital decay.

    Gil Moore has a long history with Utah State University. In 1976 he
    and his wife, Phyllis, purchased and donated to Utah State
    University the first Space Shuttle "Get Away Special" (GAS)
    experiment that NASA made available to the general public. The
    Moores assisted students over the next six years to build
    microgravity experiments that flew in space in the GAS-001 canister
    mounted in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia. The Moores
    also purchased four additional GAS flight slots and donated them to
    Utah State University and Weber State University. Even as late as
    2013 he funded three USU GAS satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
    In 1987 Moore co-founded the highly successful Small Satellite
    Conference. In 2014 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Physics
    from USU. Mr. Moore has been an adjunct instructor in the physics
    department at USU starting in 1976.

    Gil Moore has been active with numerous organizations such as the
    American Rocket Society and its successor the American Institute of
    Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Utah's Advisory Council on
    Science and Technology, the Hansen Planetarium, the Utah Science
    Center Authority, and the Utah State University Research Foundation
    board of trustees. He is a life member of the Air Force Association
    and has been a member of the American Meteorological Society, the
    Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of the Sigma
    Xi, the U.S. Space Foundation, the National Space Foundation, the
    Aerospace States Association, and the Space Business Roundtable.
    Additionally, he has served as an unofficial advisor on space issues
    for two U.S. Congressman, two U.S. senators, and three state governors.

    Mr. Moore has received the NASA Public Service Medal, the AIAA
    Distinguished Service Award, Utah State University's Distinguished
    Service Award, the Utah Council's Professional Engineer of the Year
    Award, the Utah Education Association's Teacher of the Year Award, a
    Doctor of Humanities Degree from Weber State University, the
    Governor of Utah's Medal for Science and Technology, an Aviation
    Week and Space Technology Laurel Award, the Ogden/Weber Chamber of
    Commerce's Order of the Big Hat Award, the Ogden Exchange Club's
    Book of Golden Deeds, Ogden City's Honorary Citizen Award, and most
    recently, he and his wife jointly received a Stellar Award from the
    Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in Houston,
    Texas.

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