Dick Edwards, 1933-2009
	Richard P. "Dick" Edwards was born October 17, 1933, in Madison, Wisconsin.  He grew up in Madison, cultivating a passion for fishing until his family moved to Tucson, Arizona, when he was in high school. He distinguished himself in high school by lettering in four sports, then proceeded to the University of Arizona where he studied Mechanical Engineering and focused his sports interests on track and basketball. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1956, and served as a pilot in the Air Force.  In the 1960s he worked for several aerospace companies in Southern California, initially on the Atlas launch vehicle and later on the second stage of Saturn rockets that launched Apollo capsules to the Moon, then on satellite programs in the 1970s.  In 1980, he joined the Space Shuttle program for Boeing legacy company Rockwell International in Downey, California--which transferred him to Houston in 2002, and which he served in various capacities until his last day.  One of his many notable accomplishments was co-authorship of a report to the President of the United States regarding implementation of engineering recommendations after the Challenger accident.  His lifetime of service to crewed spaceflight was recognized with a Launch Honoree Award and Silver Snoopy.  Throughout his life, he was involved in learning, earning a MS in Systems Engineering from UCLA in 1971, studying toward a Doctorate of Business Administration with United States International University in San Diego in the early 1980s, and Co-Founding Space Settlement Design Competitions for high school students in 1984.  His volunteer service in Southern California included active membership and officer responsibilities in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi, and the Judging Policy Advisory Committee of the California State Science Fair.  Space Settlement Design Competitions have grown to involve over 1000 students annually on six continents; Dick literally travelled around the world to help conduct Competitions for students.  Dick also perpetually challenged his body and his mind with activities that changed throughout his life, including running marathons, accumulating sufficient Contract Bridge masterpoints to earn Life Master status several times over, snow skiing, hiking steep mountain trails, Grand Canyon raft trips, and sailboat racing.  He started racing Ranger 23 "23 Skidoo" in the Southern California PHRF fleet in the early 1990s, engaged in one design racing on Cal 20 "P-C-H", and sailed "Trick Bag" in the J24 Texas Circuit and Wednesday Night Sailboat races.  He is survived by his brother James "Jim" Edwards of San Diego, son Brad Edwards of Albuquerque, and loving wife of 23 years Anita Gale.  He passed away suddenly at the tiller of "Trick Bag", near the front of the fleet in a Wednesday Night Sailboat Race on Clear Lake, near Houston, Texas.  An informal gathering of Friends of Dick will occur at his home in Nassau Bay Sunday afternoon 14 June starting 1:00 p.m.  The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the International Space Settlement Design Competition, c/o AIAA Orange County Section.