George Low
George Low · Technology & Engineering
NASA engineer who steered the Apollo Moon program; National Medal of Science (1983)
1926, Vienna, Austria — 1984, Troy, New York, USA
Austria · United States
George Low is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — NASA engineer who steered the Apollo Moon program; National Medal of Science (1983)
Low (born Georg Michael Löw) was the NASA manager who steered the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, directed the redesign of the Apollo craft after the Apollo 1 fire, and championed the bold Apollo 8 flight to lunar orbit; he later became NASA Deputy Administrator and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, receiving the National Medal of Science in 1983. His family, being Jewish, fled Austria for the United States after the 1938 Nazi annexation.
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NASA engineer who steered the Apollo Moon program; National Medal of Science (1983)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science
