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O'Neill's ashes were carried on the upper stage of an Orbital Sciences Pegasus. O'Neill was diagnosed with leukemia in 1985. [66] He died on April 27, 1992, from complications of the disease at the Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California. [7] [8] He was survived by his wife Tasha, his ex-wife Sylvia, and his four children.
Orbital was founded and incorporated in 1982 by three friends who had met earlier while at Harvard Business School — David W. Thompson, Bruce Walker Ferguson, and Scott L. Webster. Initial capitalization for Orbital was provided by Fred C. Alcorn, a Texas oilman and Sam Dunnam, a Texas businessman in September 1982.
Bruce Walker Ferguson is an educator, entrepreneur and lawyer who is President of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani [1] and a co-founder of Orbital Sciences Corporation. Early life and education
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After retiring from NASA in November 1991, Thompson joined Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Orbital ATK). Thompson - who was not related to David W. Thompson, Orbital co-founder - was executive vice president and chief technical officer of Orbital from 1991 to 1993, executive vice president and general manager of Orbital's Launch Systems Group ...
A merger of Orbital Sciences Corporation and the defense and aerospace divisions of Alliant Techsystems (ATK) was announced on April 29, 2014. The two companies had collaborated on several previous projects, including the use of 400 ATK rocket motors in Orbital's launch vehicles. [3] The deal officially closed on February 9, 2015.
16 November 1992 – Space Flight Europe-America 500, an orbital mission consisting of a space capsule bearing gifts from Russia to the United States, is launched by the Russian company TsSKB-Progress aboard a Soyuz rocket, before landing six days later off the coast of Grays Harbor in the United States. [12]