Charles Force Has Died

NASA Mourns the Loss of Charles T. Force

“NASA notes with sadness the passing last week of Charles T. Force, former associate administrator for the agency’s Office of Space Communications. Force left NASA in May 1996 after an aerospace career that spanned more than four decades. He joined NASA in 1965 as director of the Guam tracking station used to support the Apollo lunar landings. He would later go on to help develop, construct and employ NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, known as TDRSS.”