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Memorial Tributes Volume 5 (1992) / Chapter Skim
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Kendall Perkins
Pages 214-219

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... In the 1 950s his yearIong study of manned spacecraft culminated in McDonnell's contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to produce the Mercury capsule that carried the first Americans into earth orbit.
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... Early in 1940 Ken Perkins joined American Airlines as a research engineer. Based in New York, he served as a consultant to the vice-president of engineering and advised on transport aircraft design requirements and associated engineering problems.
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... Unmanned vehicles included the GAM-72 Quail decoy and the Asset hypersonic testvehicle along with a variety of related electronic products. Manned space vehicles included the Mercury spacecraft and the Gemini spacecraft, which carried the first two Americans into orbit.
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... Louis on February 23, 1 90S, the son of Robert Fulton Perkins and Florence Gleason Perkins. He married Elizabeth Dorothy MacIvor on October 16, 1934.
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