Human spaceflight pioneer Robert R. Gilruth dies
ROBERT R. GILRUTH, the first director of what is now known as Johnson Space Center, died yesterday. He was 86. Gilruth joined the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics in 1937, and ran Project Mercury from 1959 to 1961. He oversaw the Space Task Group at Langley Research Center, Va., and later...
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