LEADER 02673oam 22005534a 450 001 9910965604603321 005 20191108100326.0 010 $a9781496218490 010 $a1496218493 010 $a9781496218476 010 $a1496218477 035 $a(CKB)4100000009590056 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5945869 035 $a(OCoLC)1124613427 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse74833 035 $a(Perlego)4520105 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009590056 100 $a20190206d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Ultimate Engineer$eThe Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low /$fRichard Jurek ; foreword by Gerald D. Griffin 210 1$aLincoln :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d[2019] 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2020 210 4$dİ[2019] 215 $a1 online resource (328 pages) 225 0 $aOutward odyssey. A people's history of spaceflight 311 08$a9781496229410 311 08$a149622941X 311 08$a9780803299559 311 08$a0803299559 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aNew beginnings -- A man in space, soonest -- Toward a worthy goal -- The longest days -- Post-Apollo -- Giving back to the future. 330 8 $aFrom 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. 606 $aAeronautical engineers$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aOuter space$xExploration$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAeronautical engineers 676 $a629.4092 676 $aB 700 $aJurek$b Richard$01811220 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965604603321 996 $aThe Ultimate Engineer$94362969 997 $aUNINA