William H. Pickering
William H. Pickering, one of the pioneers of the U.S. space program and a longtime director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, died Mar. 15 of pneumonia at home in La Canada Flintridge, Calif. He was 93. Pickering was one of the leaders of the team that orbited Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite...
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