Hall, Justin R., 1928-1998.

Justin R. Hall was born about 1928. At the age of 24, he served in the U.S. Army as a member of the First Guided Missile Battalion that the Army set up in 1952. At that time, his assigned location was White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico. Later, he worked for the Department of the Army, Ordinance Corps, where he worked on the Corporal missile developed at JPL. After the Army, working as a civilian, he was appointed as the Sergeant missile evaluation manager at White Sands, beginning his work with JPL.

In August of 1959, he was employed by JPL as a cognizant engineer at the Deep Space Network. In 1962, he was assigned to do design work for Ranger 6, 7 and 8 on the spacecraft video system where he modified the parametric amplifier to receive video images from the Moon. After 25 years of service with JPL, Hall worked as manager in Section 333, Radio Frequency and Microwave Subsystems.

He became a member of the JPL Amateur Radio Club, WB6PTX. By October of 1994, he retired from JPL after 35 years of service, as manager in Section 410, Telemetry Data Acquisition Planning. He died in November of 1998.

From the description of J. R. Hall Collection, 1967-1990. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: 733100242