Robert F. Scott
Robert F. Scott, the California Institute of Technology engineer who developed the soil-sampling scoops for the unmanned Surveyor lunar landers and the Viking Mars landers, died Aug. 16 of cancer at home in Altadena, Calif. He was 76. Scott joined the Caltech faculty in 1958. It was there in the...
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