02673oam 22005534a 450 991096560460332120191108100326.09781496218490149621849397814962184761496218477(CKB)4100000009590056(MiAaPQ)EBC5945869(OCoLC)1124613427(MdBmJHUP)muse74833(Perlego)4520105(EXLCZ)99410000000959005620190206d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Ultimate EngineerThe Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low /Richard Jurek ; foreword by Gerald D. GriffinLincoln :University of Nebraska Press,[2019]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2020©[2019]1 online resource (328 pages)Outward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight9781496229410 149622941X 9780803299559 0803299559 Includes bibliographical references and index.New beginnings -- A man in space, soonest -- Toward a worthy goal -- The longest days -- Post-Apollo -- Giving back to the future.From the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, 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. 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. Chronicling Low's escape from Nazi-occupied Austria to his helping land a man on the moon, The Ultimate Engineer sheds new light on one of the most fascinating and complex personalities of the golden age of U.S. human space travel. Aeronautical engineersUnited StatesBiographyOuter spaceExplorationUnited StatesElectronic books. Aeronautical engineers629.4092BJurek Richard1811220MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910965604603321The Ultimate Engineer4362969UNINA