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Topic: Raymond Ronquillo, Apollo LRV (1938-2020)
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GT76
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posted 08-08-2020 08:27 PM
   
Raymond Ronquillo, an engineer who helped design and build the Apollo lunar rover, died July 24, 2020. He was 81. Raymond Ronquillo was one of nine Boeing engineers assigned to manufacture ground equipment – the lunar rover, in other words – for the Saturn V rocket, first at the Michoud Assembly Center in New Orleans East and then in Huntsville, Alabama.This was heady stuff, especially for a man in his mid-20s who had joined Boeing in 1963. "I don't know if, as a young man, he realized what he was in," said daughter MaryTheresa Anne "Do-Bee" Plaisance. "He was humble, but thrilled to be part of it." Years later, she said, "he would tear up when we talked about it. ... When we would bring it up, he'd finish the story." His name, and those of his colleagues, is on the lunar rover, which is still on the moon. They are also in the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum in Washington, the Space Needle in Seattle and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. |
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