Don Montgomery WB7Q Memorial

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There will be a memorial serivce for Don Montgomery, WB7Q on Saturday, January 11th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. at the Jacksonville Community Center, 160 E Main Street, Jacksonville Oregon.

Don as heavily involved with Jackson County ARES and Emergency Communications.

Don worked at JPL (Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, CA). He became engineering group supervisor in the lunar and planetary instruments section, Space Science Division. He was lead developer of the cameras for the Surveyor spacecraft program, which mapped the lunar surface in preparation for the Apollo missions. He also developed cameras for the Mariner Mars fly-by program before heading to NASA headquarters in Washington D.C. to work on the SeaSat Oceanographic Satellite program.

He later became Director of Ocean Services at NOAA, and he authored several articles and co-authored a book about the Surveyor spacecraft. His work took him around the world, from Kenya, Australia and the South Pacific, to the arctic regions of Iceland, Greenland and Norway.