Robert R. Gilruth
Engineer, Award Winner
1913 – 2000
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Who was Robert R. Gilruth?
Robert Rowe Gilruth was an American aviation and space pioneer. He is noted for being the first director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, later renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
He worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics from 1937 to 1958 and its successor NASA, until his retirement in 1973. He was involved with early research into supersonic flight and rocket-powered aircraft and then with the United States manned space program, including the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.
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- Born
- Oct 8, 1913
Nashwauk - Also known as
- Robert Gilruth
- Bob Gilruth
- Robert Rowe Gilruth
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Minnesota
- Lived in
- Minnesota
- Died
- Aug 17, 2000
Charlottesville
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on July 23, 2013
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