Expressions of an Acorn (ePub)

Curtis L. Nail Sr. grew up as a sharecropper in Baxley, Georgia. He went to school at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. Berry is a national treasure. It allowed students to attend class four days a week and work two. He graduated from Berry in 1962 with a major in physics, a major in mathematics, and a minor in chemistry. After Berry, he was an aircraft maintenance officer in the US Air Force with service in the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and the Pacific Air Force (PACAF).





In 1965, he made his life's most important decision. He married Ms. Marilyn Ann Jeffries of Rome, Georgia.





After he finished his tour in South Vietnam, he worked at The Boeing Company for six years on the Apollo Lunar Landing Program. He used computer simulation analyses to determine the payload capacity of all the Saturn V launch vehicles and assisted in development of guidance commands for the first stage (S1-C) on each of the Saturn V missions. The third vehicle stage (S-IVB) actually burned twice on each mission. The first burn placed the vehicle in circular orbit about the earth. After a specified time delay, the S-IVB engine was reignited to place the payload on an orbit to the moon. Curtis helped develop the target pre-settings for the second S-IVB burn. Pre-settings specified the conditions for second S-IVB burn termination. When the termination conditions were reached, the engine was shut down and the payload was on an orbit to the moon. On July 20, 1969, he helped placed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon, a good day by any measure.





Curtis was associated with the Computer Sciences Corporation for eleven years. He performed simulation analysis studies on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and sea-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). He assisted in the development of electronic countermeasure algorithms for radar and antiradiation missile (ARM) systems. As a part of the algorithm effort, he helped design

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