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Title: Oral history interview with Edward Zadorozny
Creator: Karafantis, Layne, interviewer
Contributor: Zadorozny, Edward, interviewee
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-07-07
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Manuscripts
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Description: This an edited transcript of an oral history interview of Edward Zadorozny conducted by Layne Karafantis.
Edward “Ed Z” Zadorozny held management and technical positions interfacing with the Air Force and NASA for North American Aviation/Rockwell/Boeing. He managed production design, technical services, and other groups as a Team Manager, Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead, Program Manager, Cost Account Manager (CAM), and Project Manager or Supervisor for the Shuttle, Shuttle-C, Shuttle Launch Initiative, Space Station, National AeroSpace Plane (NASP), Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), and the Advanced Space Systems Hardening/Satellite MATerials Hardening (ASSH/SMATH) programs. Zadorozny also managed several classified IRAD and CRAD projects. After the Challenger tragedy in 1986, Zadorozny supported the accident review process. Within the Airframe Design department, he performed different roles, including Project Manager of New Business and Orbiter Production Assistant Cost Account Manager (CAM). He also supported the Rockwell/Boeing effort to obtain new business from sources beyond NASA. Zadorozny oversaw teams that served on the Rockwell/Boeing Propulsion Module proposal and program for the International Space Station. After the Columbia accident, Zadorozny reconstituted the size and capacity of the group to support the Return-To-Flight redesign effort. For his role in making Shuttle improvements after the Columbia investigation, NASA awarded Zadorozny a Silver Snoopy, a special honor recognizing outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success. Ed “Z” Zadorozny retired from Boeing in 2012. A detailed biography is appended to the interview transcript.
[Object file name], Aerospace Oral History Project, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: text
Format: PDF
Extent: 1 transcript
Identifier: mssHM 80611 (49)
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll7/id/45058
Language: English
Subject: Aeronautical engineers--California, Southern--History
Aerospace engineering--California, Southern--History
Aerospace engineers--California, Southern--History
Aerospace industries--California, Southern--History--20th century
Oral histories. (aat)
Source: Aerospace Oral History Project
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library

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