Rodney W. Johnson

We've heard of people getting the run-around in the nation's capital, but Rodney Johnson is offering one that some of us might benefit from.Rod, who has an M.S. in civil engineering from Minnesota and a Ph.D. from Purdue, has spent a dozen years or so at NASA's Washington headquarters as a program planner for post-Apollo lunar missions.We don't know how "senior" he is, but he's also vice-president of the Potomac Valley Seniors Track Club.The PERSONALS squib in the Aug/Sept issue about Jerry Albert training for an American Heart Association marathon prompted Rod to extend an open invitation to ASA/CSCA members to come run with him.
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Rod has run 14 marathons in the past three years, including Boston this year (finishing in 3:21).He says he has a great one-to-two-hour "run-of-the-monuments" for sightseers in the caoital--with no parking problems.To match Glenn Kirkland's offer of a good church to visit in the area, Rod offers good running fellowship.
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If you plan to be in the Washington area and want to do some running, either work-outs or competition, give Rodney Johnson a call at his office (755-3740) or home (596-4565), or drop him a line at 5531 Green Mountain Circle No. 5, Columbia, MD 21044.

Rodney Johnson, Lambert Dolphin, and Peter Stoner.
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Rodney also participated in a symposium in Paris, France, as an invited member of a NASA team to present U. S. Space Station plans to the European Space Research Organization.

In January 1970, after seven years in the lunar program area of NASA in various capacities, he was appointed manager of experimental payloads.His new position covers 11responsibility for management of planning and development of experimental modules in all areas of science, applications, and technology for the mid-1970's earth orbital space station."Rodney was a charter member of the ASTM Committee E-21 on Space Environment Simulation in 1963, and has just completed his second twoyear term of office as chairman.He says he's glad to be out from under the ASTM assignment, since getting that space station in orbit--plus church, PTA, and civic activities--keeps him pretty busy.