James Everett Lipp

James Everett Lipp (July 3, 1910 – August 13, 1993) was an American aerospace engineer. He attended California Institute of Technology (MS, 1934; PhD, 1935) and began his career at the Douglas Aircraft Company, staying there until 1948. He then joined the missile division at the newly created Project RAND as one of the first four full-time employees, tasked by then Brigadier General Curtis LeMay to figure out how to launch orbiting satellites from a spaceship. Lipp would later become the head of the aerospace division at RAND and subsequently, corporate director of development planning at Lockheed Corporation. His recommendations to the Air Force in February 1947 helped contribute to the creation of the US civil and military satellite program during the Cold War. Provided by Wikipedia