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<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">posted 12/20/2020 10:46 pm</span></div>
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#000000;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size:
small;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size:
small;">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
(<a
href="https://twitter.com/Astro2fish/status/1343758681343733762"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
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<blockquote><em>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.</em></blockquote>
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#000000;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size:
small;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size:
small;">A biography from <a
href="http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv44082"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true">Utah State University</a>:</span></span></span></span>
<blockquote>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.
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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