Awards & Winners

Robert R. Gilruth

Date of Birth 08-October-1913
Place of Birth Nashwauk
(Itasca County, Minnesota, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Robert Gilruth, Bob Gilruth, Robert Rowe Gilruth
Profession Aerospace Engineer, Engineer
Robert Rowe Gilruth was an American aviation and space pioneer. He is noted for being the first director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, later renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. He worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics from 1937 to 1958 and its successor NASA, until his retirement in 1973. He was involved with early research into supersonic flight and rocket-powered aircraft and then with the United States manned space program, including the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.

Awards by Robert R. Gilruth

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