STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING SPACE TWITTER AND READ THIS.

Today the aggregate IQ of the space world has dropped by a measurable amount.

Gordon R. Woodcock, one of the bright lights of the dark ages of space, since Apollo, who's engineering brilliance underpins any rational lunar..

development effort, died on October 17, 2020.

I will go so far as to say that much of our efforts today for the Moon would be much less realistic without his diligence, engineering brilliance, and good humor. Google is name along with the word "Moon" and "Lunar"...

At Boeing where he was the chief scientist for years, he led the formulation of the design for the winning proposal for what today is the International Space Station, but then was called "Freedom".

Gordon was one of the leads on the 1979 Solar Power Satellite studies...

Gordon and today Blue Origin's senior Moon guy Brent Sherwood in 1990 did a study on an advanced Lunar Base that to me is still the gold standard in how it developed advanced robotic surface operations, a logistical system for payload delivery and many other features that today..

NASA is still trying to get its hands around.

Gordon wrote many of the original papers regarding the use of Lunar water, including traffic models ISRU developments to support refueling and entire Cislunar architectures as well as for Mars. ..

I simply would not be where I am today without Gordon. This is the power of the mentor, the passionate one who gives his or her life to the greater good, toward a positive future for us all. There are not that many of those kinds people in the world, and today I ask...

That all of our Space Twitter peeps simply stop for one minute, and remember this giant.