Life Force Mars (ePub)

Bert Tucker holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from West Point (1956) and a master’s degree plus in physics and mathematics from Louisiana State University (1964), including an experimental and theoretical thesis on the fluid dynamics of superfluid liquid helium under a grant from NASA. He was a lieutenant and captain in the Corps of Engineers, engineer company commander (Germany, 1960), airfield operations officer (Fort Polk, 1961–62), and served as an airplane pilot, helicopter pilot, and helicopter instructor pilot. He was an FAA-qualified commercial pilot and was qualified as a military parachutist.

He participated in a course presented by senior NASA instructors on the design of early spacecraft and implementation of the then new Apollo project while he was a graduate student at LSU. No missions have carried men beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo project sent the first men to the moon. For further background, see the acknowledgments.

He worked with and consulted to Wall Street firms for more than a quarter century. He developed and managed the data quality of financial market data systems that employed early global satellite communication systems, acquiring data from one hundred exchanges around the world. He pioneered early derivative securities reporting methodologies. He developed systems to calculate many instantaneous, complex market data indices. He developed encryption methods to secure proprietary market data.

He is a member of the West Point Society of the Mid Hudson Region and was the chair of a series of seven West Point conferences on leadership and ethics development for high school students sponsored by the WPSMHR. He is a member of the Wayne, New Jersey Rotary Club and has served as chair for Rotary District 7490 for ten leadership and ethics conferences sponsored by numerous Rotary Clubs. The seventeen conferences were presented by West Point officers and cadets who were leaders in the West Point Cadet Honor and Respect programs.

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