Former Space Scientist

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Dr. Andrus earned a PhD in Mathematics (4.0 GPA) from the University of Florida and is a Professor Emeritus of the University of New Orleans.

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He was the former Manager of GE’s Scientific Suboperation of the Computation Lab of the Marshall Space Flight Center during the first manned lunar landings. He was over most of the mathematicians and computer scientists at Marshall and Cape Canaveral. He worked with five space centers as a leading authority on optimal guidance of space vehicles.

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Dr. Andrus published a research paper on the separation of systems of ordinary differential equations into subsystems that may be solved with different methods. This enabled NASA to complete its method for simulating space flight trajectories on a computer.

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Dr. Andrus published an article in a top journal on digital image maps to replace the so-called Fast Fourier transform with a much faster and more flexible method. This method is used for such things as comparing satellite images of Earth and it may be used for facial recognition.

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He was coauthor of a published work on the optimal path to the moon. He has published in leading journals in five different fields. He has self-published two editions On the Nature of Space, Time, and Evolution. These include an explanation of the big bang.

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Dr. Andrus is married to Nancy Swing Andrus. He has two daughters: Margaret Lynn Jenkinson and Leslie Louise Andrus. He has one brother: Charles Andrus, Md.