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October 18, 2015 02:00 am
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"Father of the Space Shuttle" George Muller Dies At 97
The Washington Post reports that long-time NASA engineer and administrator George Muller died on October 12 of congestive heart failure, at 97. Muller had a hand in NASA programs as Associate Administrator of the NASA Office of Manned Space Flight going back to the Apollo program, but not only as an administrator: he played a large role in the design of Skylab, and in lobbying for the Space Shuttle; this last earned him the (sometimes disputed) nickname of "Father of the Space Shuttle." During his Apollo days, Muller became well known for his insistence on "all-up" testing, rather than incremental, per-component tests. From the Washington Post's story:As applied to the space program, [all-up testing] implied specifically such techniques as the testing of all three stages of the giant Saturn V booster rocket while they were coupled together and with a payload attached to boot. It was reported that the scheme had its doubters, among them such leading lights of rocketry as Wernher von Braun. But in time, the forceful Dr. Mueller proved persuasive enough to overcome all such reservations, and it was “all up” for the mammoth Saturn V, the launch vehicle upon which NASA pinned its hopes of sending Americans to the moon.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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