Saverio "Sonny" Morea (born January 23, 1932) is an American aerospace engineer, former NASA employee, and flight instructor.
"[2] He attended Brooklyn Technical High School, where he graduated in 1950 having completed the Aeronautical Engineering curriculum.
He was also involved with the college's Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program, through which he was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
Morea worked on the SM-64 Navaho at North American, specifically in designing the rocket's wind tunnel aft body.
He was reassigned to the Ordnance Corps,[1] training for several weeks at the Aberdeen Proving Ground before being ordered to report to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.
[1] In July 1960, Morea and the rest of the "von Braun rocket team" transferred to NASA to join the newly created Marshall Space Flight Center.
[1] Morea called combustion instability, a major issue in the development of the F-1, "the biggest problem I ever had in my entire career.