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About the photo (above):
Kevin Magee (left) and Cindy LaRosa (right) on the dive boat W.A. Spears of G+S Charters in Tobermory, Ontario. This was a Bay Area Divers (BAD) and Lake Erie Wreck Divers (LEWD) trip to the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron on September 18-19, 2004. Photo by Greg Ondus.

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Education

  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
  • M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Work Experience

  • Stones River Steel
    Murfreesboro, TN
  • McDonnell Douglas Corp.
    St. Louis, MO
  • U.S. Navy Public Works Center — Shipyard Steam, Air, and Water
    Pearl Harbor, HI
  • ZIN Technologies, Inc. (formerly Aerospace Design and Fabrication, Inc.)
    Cleveland, OH

Major Work Projects

  • F-15E Strike Eagle — Structural dynamics fatigue testing
  • F/A-18 Advanced Hornet (Hornet 2000) — Combat operations analysis
  • NASP / X-30 — Hypersonic computational code and wind tunnel test data
  • Combustion Module-1 (CM-1) — Microgravity combustion experiment
    flown on MSL-1 (Spacelab) aboard the Space Shuttle on STS-83 and STS-94
  • Spread Across Liquids (SAL) — Microgravity combustion experiment
    flown on three Black Brant IX sounding rocket flights from White Sands, NM
  • Shear History Extensional Rheology Experiment (SHERE) — Microgravity fluids experiment to be flown in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) facility on the International Space Station (ISS)
  • Zero Boil-Off Tank (ZBOT) — Microgravity fluids experiment to be flown in the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) facility on the International Space Station (ISS)

Misc. Work Experience

  • Over 2,100 parabolas (14.6 hours of microgravity time) aboard NASA's KC-135 and DC-9 research aircraft
  • More than a hundred Zero-G Facility (5.2 second drop tower) test drops


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