D. Brainerd Holmes, Early Spaceflight Director
D. Brainerd Holmes, who led NASA's human spaceflight effort in the early 1960s, died Jan. 11 in Memphis, Tenn., of pneumonia. He was 91. An experienced executive who was trained as an electrical engineer at Cornell University, Holmes was project manager at RCA for the Ballistic Missile Early Warning...
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