25-10-2012, 11:10 AM
Hot and Cold Therapy Eases Pain
ABSTRACT
In the 1960s, NASA civil servant Tom Hughes worked for Marshall Space Flight Center s Quality Control Laboratory as
a systems engineer. Reporting directly to Dr. Wernher von Braun, Marshall s first director, Hughes was assigned as a NASA
representative for quality control at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, to oversee the Saturn V rocket
project. During this time, Hughes invented several technologies to improve the safety of the rocket, earning several
commendations from von Braun. He also gained technical expertise in microwave technology, as NASA researched it to
determine its relationship to radar.