Richard W. Cook

From 1927 to 1933, he attended Michigan State University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

In the fall of 1945, while still at Oak Ridge, Lt. Col. Richard W. Cook was awarded the Legion of Merit for his work on the A-Bomb Project.

He was made Director of Production and in 1954 promoted to Deputy General Manager of the AEC.

[2] From 1958 to 1973 Cook was employed as an executive at American Machine and Foundry Company and at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

He was employed at AMF while it was producing components for the Atlas and Titan missile systems and he was at Marshall Space Flight Center during the height of the Apollo Program.