Mr. David Bethay This is Me

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1. 1. Cocoa Beach Area Chamber of Commerce

   www.cocoabeachchamber.com/home - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/11/2008   Last Visited: 7/11/2008

   David BethayThe Boeing Company

2. 2. The Space Foundation - Take Up Space

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   Published on: 10/31/2005   Last Visited: 4/15/2008

   Industry speakers include Mr. Bretton S. Alexander, vice president, Government Relations, Transformational Space Corporation LLC; Mr. Eric C. Anderson, president and chief executive officer, Space Adventures, Ltd.; Mr. William 'Bill' Bastedo, principal, Booz Allen Hamilton; Mr. David Bethay, director of Mission Management & Utilization, The Boeing Company - Florida Operations; Mr. Kevin R. Brown, associate, Booz Allen Hamilton; Mr. Daniel J. Collins, vice president, Expendable Launch Systems and vice president & program manager, Delta Programs, The Boeing Company; Mr. Francis A. DiBello, president and chief executive officer, Florida Aerospace Finance Corporation; Dr. Benjamin E. 'Ben' Goldberg, director of Engineering, Research & Advanced Programs, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Florida Operations; Mr. John B. Higginbotham, chairman, SpaceVest; Mr. Alan Ladwig, manager, Washington Operations, Space Systems Business Development, Northrop Grumman; Mr. Adrian Lafitte, director, Florida Gover

3. 3. Space

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   Published on: 9/4/2005   Last Visited: 9/4/2005

   CAPE CANAVERAL - David Bethay sees uncertainty swirling around Kennedy Space Center.
   
   NASA will retire its shuttle fleet in 2010, but it's not clear when the agency will be ready to launch a new spaceship called the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
   
   Nonetheless, Bethay plans to hang tight through uncertain times, with an eye toward playing a role in sending human expeditions beyond Earth orbit.
   
   "You don't do this for the money," said Bethay, 42, a space station project manager with The Boeing Co."You do it because it's in your blood."
   
   That's especially true in Bethay's case.
   
   A married father who lives on Merritt Island, Bethay grew up in Huntsville, Ala., in the Monte Sano neighborhood populated by famed German rocket scientists who jump-started the U.S. space program in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
   
   He learned to speak German so he could converse in the homes of his boyhood friends.Some of his earliest memories are of Saturn moon rocket tests that "would rattle the whole of North Alabama."
   
   "You can't be in that environment in that time, in the early 1960s, and not have a bug that bites you," he said."And it goes on for life."
   
   Bethay moved to Florida in the mid-1990s to help prepare the first U.S. element of the International Space Station for launch.
   
   He's not the first in his clan to work in the space business.