The Ultimate Engineer The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low / Richard Jurek ; foreword by Gerald D. Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jurek, Richard, author.

Series:

Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aeronautical engineers--United States--Biography.

Aeronautical engineers.

Outer space--Exploration--United States.

Outer space.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Officials and employees--Biography.

United States.

Low, George M., 1926-1984.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

Summary:

From the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human 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. At the end of his NASA career, Low was one of the leading figures in the development of the Space Shuttle in the early 1970s, and he was instrumental in NASA's transition into a post-Apollo world. Chronicling Low's escape from Nazi-occupied Austria to his helping land a man on the moon, The Ultimate Engineer sheds new light on one of the most fascinating and complex personalities of the golden age of U.S. human space travel.

Contents:

New beginnings

A man in space, soonest

Toward a worthy goal

The longest days

Post-Apollo

Giving back to the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496218490

1496218493

9781496218476

1496218477

OCLC:

1124613427