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On the Cover
When a handful of Boeing engineers set up shop in Huntsville, Ala., 50 years ago, they were there to help NASA’s
Apollo program take astronauts to the moon and back. Today, Boeing employs some 2,600 people in Huntsville
working on a wide variety of projects. These include developing the core stage of a powerful new rocket and a
design center with 300 engineers supporting programs across the company, such as the 787 Dreamliner.
22Rocket science ... and beyond
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COVER IMAGE: Engineers Tim Walters, left, and Joseph Querin check the weld quality of friction stir welding tooling at the Marshall Space Flight Center
in Huntsville, Ala. This advanced welding process will be used on the new Space Launch System’s rocket core. BOB FERGUSON/BOEING
PHOTO: Debbie Barnett, director of Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program integration, with an inert exo-atmospheric kill vehicle in the
GMD Training Facility in Huntsville. The VEHICLE is the “tip of the spear” in the missile defense world—destroying ballistic missiles through force of
collision. ERIC Shindelbower/BOEING
The stories behind the ads in this issue of Frontiers.
Inside cover: Page 6:
This ad congratulates
Ernie Els for winning
the 141st British Open
Championship at Royal
Lytham & St. Annes
Golf Club in Lancashire,
U.K., in July. Boeing
initiated the sponsorship
this year with Els, one
of the world’s most
accomplished and best-known golfers.
This new ad highlights
Boeing’s leadership in
satellite hosted payloads,
an innovative business
model that delivers
capability, cost and
schedule advantages
to customers. The ad
currently appears in
trade publications.
Back cover:
In June, Boeing
announced the
launch of Milestones
in Innovation, its
first official iPad app
available for free from
the App Store. The app
brings nine decades of
aviation innovation to
life through beautiful still
and video imagery and an interactive timeline.
BOEING FRONTIERS / SEPTEMBER 2012
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