Wed, 18 March 2009
From the Orlando Sentinel:
Joseph J. Mazzochi, a longtime Huntington resident and electrical engineer who worked on Grumman Corp.'s Lunar Excursion Module, which carried astronauts to the moon's surface in 1969, died Saturday at his home with his wife, Carol, at his side He was 81. During his career at Grumman, he worked on the communication systems for the F-14 Tomcat fighter jet as well as the lunar module, known as the LEM, which carried astronauts from the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. He retired in 1989. "He was very proud of his work with the LEM," Carol Mazzochi said, adding that he was at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston when the LEM descended to the moon's surface. Category:Apollo Obits
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