Robert R. Gilruth
Robert R. Gilruth, who headed the Space Task Group which conceived Project Mercury, and then became the first director of the NASA Johnson Space Center, died in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 17. He was 86 and had Alzheimer's disease. In the 1940s as a young engineer, Gilruth joined the National...
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