
The Ultimate Engineer
The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low
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Mike Chamberlain
Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, George M. Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's decision to make a lunar landing NASA's primary goal in the 1960s. After the tragic 1967 Apollo 1 fire that took the lives of three astronauts and almost crippled the program, Low took charge of the redesign of the Apollo spacecraft, and he helped lead the program from disaster and toward the moon. Under Low there were five manned missions, including Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing.
Low's clandestine negotiations with the Soviet Union resulted in a historic joint mission in 1975 that was the precursor to the Shuttle-Mir and International Space Station programs. At the end of his NASA career, Low was one of the leading figures in the development of the space shuttle in the early 1970s, and he was instrumental in NASA's transition into a post-Apollo world. Afterward, he embarked on a distinguished career in higher education as a transformational president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his alma mater.
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This book gives some excellent advice
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Finally, well researched and written book about one of the most important - and little known - men behind the success of Apollo.
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Only one.
The narrator keeps mispronouncing “S-IVB”, the second stage of the Saturn IB, and third stage of the Saturn V.
IT’S PRONOUNCED “S-FOUR-B”, NOT “S-1-V-B”!
An Excellent Biography of an Underrated Engineer
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The difference in work ethic between the 60’s, 70’s and lack of it, now.
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The man behind Apollo 11 and NASA
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George M Low was awesome but this book wasn't
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Interesting but obsequious
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