Space Adventures with Don Doerres

GPM member Don Doerres will be telling us of his experiences with the Lunar Prospector, Nevada Test Site Stories, & fun stuff from other worlds.

The presentation will be held at the Burton Barr Central Library, 1221 N Central Ave, Phoenix 85004.
Meeting Room A, on the first floor, across from the bathrooms.

We will begin setting up at 10am, with the presentation lasting from 10:30-12:00. A Post-Forum Debriefing will take place at The Old Spaghetti Factory across the street at 12:30.

Don Doerres has been a member of GPM since 1976, with only a two year hiatus while he and his wife lived in and worked in Nevada for two years. Don has been active throughout the years, helping out with Regional gatherings and even the Annual Gathering when it was in Phoenix in the early 1980’s, providing leadership and registration databases. Don has been an aerospace engineer for some 50 years. His early career was spent designing and building special test equipment that could not readily be found commercially. As testing grew more complex, he started writing software to automate testing. He has spent many years working in the space industry, testing developing spacecraft, writing spacecraft software, and maintaining and updating software for spacecraft in orbit. Don wrote all the software for Lunar prospector. Now that he is retired, he writes. He has recently published a sci-fi novella, The Baffling Boffin, which is available as a paperback and in Kindle format on Amazon.