Frank Johnson Makes a Stellar President
July 30, 1969
Dr. Francis (Frank) Johnson becomes acting president of the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, and later of UT Dallas. Johnson comes to the center with an impressive space science career: he served in the Air Force during World War II, designed instruments to study German V2 rockets captured after WWII, served on NASA and National Science Foundation advisory boards, and invented a lunar atmospheric pressure gauge that flew on Apollo flights 12, 14, and 15.