Larry Bell:
CLASS OF 1954
Doland High SchoolClass of 1954
Doland, SD
Larry's Story
After High school Fred and I went to Chicago as part of a scholarship and worked at Insurance companies. After a summer in Chicago and finding out that working for an insurance Co. and someday getting to come back to the Headquarters in CHICAGO we decided that it was not what we wanted and got in the car and came back to S.D. State and registered for College. After graduation from SDSU I went to work in Omaha with the U.S,Corps of Engineers. Worked on Air Force facility designs and the Missouri river dam turbine designs and transferred to the Atlas Military launch site construction sites near Omaha and then Lincoln Neb. After about three years the Air Force was switching to solid missiles and I was a propelant loading design guy so applied and was hired to go to work for the National Aeronautics and Space (NASA) manned program in Houston TX. I took some vacation ti...Expand for more
me in Dec. of 1961 so that I could report to the new Manned Space Center which didn't officially open until after the first of Jan. 1962 and we got here on Jan. the 3rd. I worked at what is now Johnson Space Center 32 years until June of 1994 when I retired. Went back a year later as a part time consultant to Boeing Co. working on the Russian/ Us joint miror program and then the International Space Station ISS for a total of 15 years. My wife was my girl friend from bible camp at Lake Poinset when she was 16. My career at NASA was one of a life time and I could take no credit except to say that it was a wonderful opportunity and I was there at the right time. Sherry and I had three sons and they got married and we have 9 gdrand children. The love o my life died in January 2015 after nearly 58 years of marriage. Thank God for a great life of Blessings by our Lord. .
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