Ultimate Engineer
The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low
From the late 1950s to 1976 the U.S. manned spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the ultimate engineer during his career at NASA, Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's decision to make a lunar landing NASA's primary goal in the 1960s. After the tragic 1967 Apollo 1 fire that took the lives of three astronauts and almost cri…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4962-1847-6
- EAN: 9781496218476
- Produktnummer: 35595057
- Verlag: Nebraska
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'933 KB
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