Jerry Creel Bostick

Jerry Bostick attended Mississippi State University where he studied Civil Engineering. He joined NASA in 1962 and served as Retrofire Officer and Flight Dynamics Officer during the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab programs. He served as Executive Assistant to the NASA Administrator and Special Assistant for Programs, Office of Energy Programs at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

Upon returning to the Johnson Space Center, he served as Chief of Technical Planning, Manager of Space Shuttle Payload Deployment and Retrieval Systems, Deputy Manager, Space Shuttle Program, and Director of Mission Support.

He left NASA in 1984 to become Vice President, Space Systems, Grumman Aerospace Corporation. In 1996, he retired from Grumman and joined United Space Alliance as Assistant Program Manager, Space Flight Operations Contract, NASA's prime contract for processing and operation of the Space Shuttle.

He retired from United Space Alliance in 1998 and now lives in Marble Falls, Texas with his wife Vickie. They have three children and 10 grandchildren.

Bostick was a technical adviser on the movies Apollo 13 and Armageddon and the Emmy Award winning HBO television series From the Earth to the Moon.