Keith’s note: I just learned of my friend Jack Boyd’s death. I met Jack shortly after I joined NASA In 1986 and stayed in regular contact with him ever since. Jack WAS NASA – having lived 99 years, starting at the agency before it was even called NASA – longer than anyone at NASA Ames. When he retired in 2020 I sent an email to NASA Ames PAO asking if this announcement was a typo. Jack was not the retiring type. Jack always had something valuable (and funny) to say to me and was probably one of the nicest people to have ever worked on America’s space program. #AdAstra Jack.
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing