from 1955-1999. His early work at Hughes Aircraft helped create guided missile systems and the ground satellites that tracked the Apollo space missions, he said in an oral history recorded by his family.His two-way antenna designs at Rantec Microwave Systems enabled consumers to have DirecTV and Sirius XM connections, and are featured in the massive Mojave Desert radiotelescopes that search for signs of life in space, his son and JPL colleagues said.
“We have pretty much the same hopes, fears, ambitions, strengths and frailties that have typified all of human existence,” Kelly wrote in a letter his white neighbors, urging them to set aside “stereotyped notions,” according to the AP story. Kelly urged the cartoonist to treat the Black character as a “supernumerary” — just another member of the Peanuts gang. Franklin soon appeared on a beach, helping Charlie Brown build a sand castle.
Kelly’s Navy training helped him excel at Brooklyn Polytechnic College and get a job at Hughes Aircraft in 1953. He later learned that his white colleagues had been polled to see if they’d work with a Black man; the few who said they’d quit were told to do so.
His family should be proud. A long life well-lived!
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Those are incredible accomplishments and i respect the guy, but not because he's black
Waiting for the netflix on this one.
Das rite
Try harder - find a picture to include.
Science time.
For those asking, send your kids to a red-lined black school, and watch what it takes for him to reach these heights. Women and people of color have been proven to have to work harder just to get the same educational & professional opportunities as white men.
Why is prowess not amplified?
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Kind of a racist tweet, but ok.
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Rest in peace Kenneth Kelly.
😢 May he rest in peace.🙏
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well ... regardless of his skin color, his incredible achievements are what matters the most. May the soul of a great engineer rest in peace!
Who cares about his color? More divisive writing from our strong and brave press. superstraight
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May his soul rest in peace !!
Why was Trump banned?
You don't hear those words together often...
Unfortunate.