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Date of Birth
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08-October-1913
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Place of Birth
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Nashwauk
(Itasca County, Minnesota, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Robert Gilruth, Bob Gilruth, Robert Rowe Gilruth
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Profession
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Aerospace Engineer, Engineer
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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.
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