Archival Adventures: NASA Papers of Robert Gilruth
Archival Adventures: NASA Papers of Robert Gilruth
It's time for an adventure! This week we’re exploring the NASA papers of Robert R. Gilruth (1913-2000). Gilruth was an aerospace engineer and NACA/NASA administrator. He was a flight research engineer for Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1937-1945), then chief of the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division (1945-1950), and later its assistant director (1950-1958). He headed the Space Task Group for NASA (1958-1961) and was charged with directing Project Mercury. From 1961 to 1972, he was the first director of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston. Find out what’s in the collection here: https://bit.ly/Ms1990-053
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