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Date of Birth
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02-October-1901
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Place of Birth
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Windsor
(Henry County, Missouri, Pettis County, 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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father of inertial navigation
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Profession
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Inventor, Engineer
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Charles Stark "Doc" Draper was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.
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