Robert Matthew Winglee
Robert Matthew Winglee
“One of his proudest recent achievements was founding the Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pipeline (NESSP) in order to bring STEM to underrepresented and minority students. Through his Directorships of Washington NASA Space Grant and NESSP, he has touched the lives of many middle and high school students throughout the country. When students saw him coming they would yell out, “Here comes the rocket man!”
The UW space plasma group of which he was a leading light has done some of the best advanced propulsion work of the last few decades. This is a loss.