Clinton Eugene Brown passed away on July 21, 2008, 39 years and a day after the Apollo lunar module he was design head for landed on the moon. .
He graduated from Purdue University with Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering degrees and was awarded PiTau Sigma, Engineering Society. While at Purdue, he was also a player, composer and arranger in the Irv Givens big band. He joined NACA (now know as NASA) working in jet propulsion and supersonic aeronautics. During WW2, he served in the U.S. Army, but assigned to NACA to pursue critical wartime work. He was awarded the Rockefeller Public Service Award, attended Gottingen University, West Germany.
Clinton headed a team at NASA for designing the lunar landing module after teaching the first seven astronauts and others at NASA orbital mechanics and space flight. He taught graduate courses in theoretical mechanics at University of Virginia. In 1964, he joined Hydronautics Inc., and his projects focused on artificial kidney research, desalination, ocean thermal energy, marine physiology and aircraft wake vortices. He also taught graduate aerodynamics at the University of MD. In 1984 he retired from NASA and worked part time at Dynaflo on a poison gas detection project for protection against acts of terrorism or disaster. Later he taught graduate compressible flow aerodynamics at Johns Hopkins University.
Friends are invited to Clinton's Life Celebration on Saturday, from 10:30 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m. at the George P. Kalas Funeral Home, 2973 Solomons Island Road, Edgewater, Md.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice of the Chesapeake, 445 Defense Highway, Annapolis, MD 21401.
- Excerpted from the Daily Press on July 24, 2008.
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