Jack Bacon Biography

Following an extensive career at the forefront of technology he currently works at the NASA Johnson Space Center. At NASA he has served as systems integration lead of numerous Russian and American spacecraft including the Zarya' (also known by its Russian acronym: FGB) the first element and bridge module of the new International Space Station launched November 20 1998. His duties at NASA have included several assignments in the integrated architecture design and operations of the Shuttle and of all systems in the US Russian Japanese European and Canadian elements of the International Space Station. His duties have taken him to space development facilities all over the world including previously secret Russian installations. He has presented educational and motivational topics on all levels to hundreds of worldwide audiences and on numerous radio and TV events.
He is an award-winning author whose latest book is My Grandfathers' Clock: a nonfiction which traces the development of technology and society through 28 known generations of his family dating from medieval times to today's permanent human presence in the cosmos. His next release outlines a vision of the next fifty years and is called: My Stepdaughter's Watch. It is due out in December.
He is the grandson of aviation pioneer David L. Bacon (one of the original engineers of the NACA in 1919) and of Grace Dunlap the second woman technical employee at the NACA. (NACA= National Advisory Council on Aeronautics: the precursor of NASA). He is married to the former Janeane Stephens a speech pathologist and he is stepfather to Crystal Burdine a fashion model and high school student.

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