Stephen Bales
Raised in a small Iowa farming community Bales graduated of Iowa State
University with a degree in "aeronautical engineering". After being
hired by the space agency, Stephen Bales
is best known for having been guidance officer during the Apollo 11
lunar landing. At a Dinner in Los Angeles Honoring the Apollo 11
Astronauts, President Richard Nixon said
of Bales, "This is the young man, when the computers seemed to be
confused and when he could have said Stop, or when he could have said
Wait, said, Go." His long NASA career ranged from 1964 through 1996.
After retirement from NASA he went to work at Amspec Chemical in New
Jersey.
