Awards & Winners

George Mueller

Date of Birth 16-July-1918
Place of Birth St. Louis
(Missouri, United States of America, Area code 314, Area code 557)
Nationality
George Mueller, born July 16, 1918, was Associate Administrator of the NASA Office of Manned Space Flight from September 1963 until December 1969. Hailed as one of NASA's "most brilliant and fearless managers", he was instrumental in introducing the all-up testing philosophy for the Saturn V launch vehicle, which ensured the success of the Apollo program in landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth by the end of 1969. Mueller also played a key part in the design of Skylab, and championed the space shuttle's development, which earned him the nickname, "the father or the space shuttle." More recently, Mueller was Chairman & Chief Vehicle Architect of the now defunct Kistler Aerospace Corp.

Awards by George Mueller

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1970


National Medal of Science for Engineering
(For his many individual contributions to the design of the Apollo system, including the planning and interpretation of a large array of advanced experiments necessary to insure the success of this venture into a new and little known environment.)