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Oct 08, 1913 Nashwauk, Minnesota, United States Died on 17 Aug 2000 (aged 86)
Aviation and space pioneer
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About Robert R. Gilruth
- Robert Rowe Gilruth (October 8, 1913 – August 17, 2000) was an American aerospace engineer and an aviation/space pioneer who was 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.
