"Amiable Strangers"
Three distinct personalities, one goal: reach the moon.
- By Michael Klesius
- AirSpaceMag.com, May 21, 2009
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The crews of Apollo 10 and 11 huddle on June 3, 1969, shortly after the Apollo 10 mission took the lunar module on a dress-rehearsal flight to within 50,000 feet of the moon’s surface. Clockwise from left: Mike Collins and Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 10 lunar module pilot Gene Cernan, Apollo 10 commander Tom Stafford, Neil Armstrong, and Apollo 10 command module pilot John Young.
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While the astronauts were deserving heros of the Apollo project your series needs a section on one person in particular, George M. Low. It was he who met the challange of the disastrous fire that killed three astronauts and brought together the science and engineering that made the capsule workable.
George was originally brought from the Cleveland NASA lab to the Office of Manned Space Flight by Abe Silverstine. After the fire he was transferred to Houston to take over the design of the capsule. Without him the Moon landing may never have happened. After the landing and the instigation of the Space lab project he was made Deputy Administrator of NASA. His life story would be worth an article.
Posted by Robert E. Blue on June 24,2009 | 12:16 PM