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directed efforts to extend the capability of the Apollo EMU for increased lunar exploration time. Between 1975 and 1979, Mayo served as Ouef of the johnson Space Center Engineering Division and managed the Construction of Facilities Program. " I was responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of all facilities at JSC (Johnson Space Center), the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, and the contractor operated facilities where the Shuttle was built in Dovvnev, Calif., and Palmda'le, Calif. Se,·eral technical facilities were constructed during my tenure including the Lunar Curatorial FaciHty where the rocks returned from the lunar surface are stored," he said. From 1979 to 1981 he served as Executive Assistant to the Director of Fngineering and was tech– nical advisor/chief of staff responsible for assisting the director in the overall man– agement of engineering and tcchnicaJ support for the development of new

~la}O retired from NASA Johnson Space Center GSC:) in 1990 <1ftcr more than 33 years of federal service. He continued to \VOrk as a spc1CC industry consultant with faglc Engineering and later \1uni7 Engineering for another 12 ) cars before retiring in 2002. lie began his career with the NASA Langley Research Center in Humpton, Va., and was then selected in 1962 as Subsystem Manager responsible for developing the En\'ironmental Control Subsystem (life support) for the Apollo Lunar \lfoduJe at john~on Space Center in Houston, Texas. A few years later, he was selected to lead a group of engineers and tl'Chnicians assigned to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida who maintained and prepared the space suits and backpacks for the first six manned launches of the Apollo Program. From 1970 to 1972, Mavo served as Special Assistant to the Chief, Crew <,ystcms Division and

Richard L. "Dick" Mayo

Marijo James Denson

space vehicles and technol– ogy. As Deputy Chief, Crew and Thermal Systems Division, from 1981 to 1987, Mayo was responsible for all division testing activi– ties. His last assignments at NASA were as Director of the European Programs Division of the Space Station Freedom Program Office in Reston, VA, and later as Assistant Director for Space Station in the Engineering and DevelopmentDirectorate at Johnson Space Center. During his tenure, he received various awards from NASA including the Exceptional Service Medal

in 1988.

He currently serves as pres ident of the Decatur Chapter of Lions Oub International and is an active member of Oarke– Venable Baptist Church in Decatur. He and his wife, Betty, also a 1955 EQC graduate, l have two sons. Marijo James Denson currently serves on the Board of the Mississippi Regional Housing Authority #5 and serves as vice president of commis– sioners of the Southeastern Regional Conference for Housing and Redevelopment, an organi-

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