For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA engineer and manager. Childhood in Dodson, Texas, and Vinson, Oklahoma; education at Bethany Nazarene College and Southwestern Oklahoma State University; career with NASA in mission control, space shuttle development, and software development, and International Space Station programs; duties on various Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions; Skylab program’s importance to NASA and space exploration; perceptions of NASA’s working and management culture.