Sunday 5 August 2012
Nisson Finkelstein; NASA Spacesuit designer for the Apollo program
Nisson A. Finkelstein was the son of Benjamin H. Finkelstein and Tena Kadetsky. Benjamin and Tena married on August 1, 1915 in Boston, Mass. Benjamin's parents are listed as Nathan Finkelstein and Phoebe Levenson and Tena's parents are Jacob Kadtesky and Pauline Baruth. Marriage register part 1, part 2.
Nisson A. Finkelstein Obituary:
Philadelphia Inquirer - October 26, 1989 - D12 LOCAL (25 Tishrei)
NISSON A. FINKELSTEIN, 64
Nisson Ascher Finkelstein, 64, founder of a company that designed and built spacesuits for the Apollo program and a writer and leader in Jewish affairs, died Tuesday at his home in Wilmington. He was the founder and former president of ILC Industries Inc. in Dover, Del.,which made spacesuits for the Apollo program and continues to produce space garb for NASA. He also was a former chief executive of Inertial Motors in Doylestown, where he helped develop the sophisticated motor that drove the cameras used on moon landings. Finkelstein served as president of the Jewish Federation of Delaware, the Jewish community's central fund-raising and planning organization. He was also president of United Way of Central Delaware and a director of the Urban Coalition. Surviving are his wife, Rona Finkelstein; sons, Jesse A. and Loren A.,and four grandchildren.
Daily Boston Globe - Jul 16, 1950
Fall Wedding Planned: Mr and Mrs Aaron Glassman of Rochester announce the engagement of their daughter Rona to Dr Nisson Ascher Finkelstein son of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Finkelstein of Milton Miss Glassman graduated from Connecticut College Dr Finkelstein
graduated Harvard in 1946.
On the Other Hand: Articles Written 1979 to 1989 for the Jewish Voice by Nisson A. Finkelstein was published in 1992 by the Jewish Federation of Delaware.
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