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Our Enshrinees
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Engineer
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Enshrined: 1994
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Birth: October 8, 1913
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Death: August 17, 2000
Robert Rowe Gilruth
- Joined the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which would later become the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), upon graduating college.
- Selected to manage a free-flight guided missile range at Wallops Island, Virginia at the meer age of 31.
- Directed Project Mercury which was responsible for the first American astronaut to orbit the earth and was accomplished only three years after NASA was created.
- Named the Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center and assigned the responsibility of designing and developing spacecraft and associated equipment, planning and controlling missions, and training flight crews.
- Greatly contributed to the success of the Apollo Program.
- Appointed as Director of Key Personnel Development in 1972 where he identified and helped to prepare the future leaders of NASA.
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Engineer
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Enshrined: 1994
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Birth: October 8, 1913
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Death: August 17, 2000
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