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Newspaper of Viera & Suntree...........BLUEWATER CREATIVE GROUP FEBRUARY 2016
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VOLUME 10 ISSUE 1
Rocket man offers world of advice
Viera magician places second Page 28
Former space engineer Dave Bonnar is realistic about funding problems that could limit future projects.
Color Me Healthy 5K successful in debut Page 24 VIERA VOICE Darrell Woehler
BY MARIA SONNENBERG AND MARY BROTHERTON
NASA might do well to listen to Dave Bonnar, who for 48 years worked in many aspects of the space program since its infancy. The man definitely knows space. Falling for the allure of space after watching the film “Destination Moon” in 1950, Bonnar headed for a career in the then-infant field, via an aerospace degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. “I was offered a job by Douglas Aircraft in California to go
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design rockets for them,” said Bonnar, who moved to Viera in 2004. Before departing for Brevard, Bonnar had directed a group of rocket experts in the Boeing Phantom Works Division in Huntington Beach, Calif. “Boeing moved me here to support work we were doing for NASA on large rocket designs.”
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