Tim spent his sophomore year of high school aboard a school ship, the Brigantine Albatross. He was both student and crew for nine months, visiting various Caribbean and Galápagos Islands. The voyage ended tragically. The Albatross sank during a storm in the Gulf of Mexico with the loss of six lives.

He completed his two remaining high school years at Wayne High School in New Jersey, and went on to major in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences at Princeton. He ate at Campus and was a varsity fencer. On campus he worked closely with Prof. Marcus Knowlton on vehicles which traveled at high speeds through tubes. He obtained a Ph.D. in aerodynamics at MIT.

He then spent 13 years at the Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA, part of the Department of Transportation.

In 1983 Tim began work at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. There he set about building simulations of various space vehicle systems, including the remote manipulator arm of the space shuttle. The latter phase of his career at Draper was involved with the Space Launch System, the giant rocket used in NASA’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon.

Tim retired from Draper in 2019 but has closely followed the Artemis program and worked on much of its related technology.

Tim and Ruth split their time between Newton, MA, and South Bristol, ME. They have two daughters, Dartmouth grad Miranda, and Princeton grad Kathryn ’00. They also have two grandchildren.

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