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GEORGE E. MUELLER
Pages 270-275

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... Kistler Aerospace Corporation
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... Having won one of the first television fellow­ ships offered by RCA, he elected to attend graduate school at Purdue University, where he participated in building a television transmitter on campus. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1940, joined Bell Labs, and moved 271
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... In the early 1960s, shortly after President Kennedy announced the goal of sending a man to the Moon and returning him safely to Earth within the decade, NASA administrator James Webb approached George about taking over the Office of Manned Space Flight. After some inquiries George said he would accept the job if the agency was restructured to make it more efficient.
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... And he was responsible for getting the Air Force involved with the program, bringing hundreds of experienced program m ­ anagers from the military, especially the Air Force, into the civilian space agency. During the Apollo Program, he recognized the need for a post-Apollo program and promoted ideas for a manned lunar base, a manned mission to Mars, and an orbiting space station.
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... . And in addition to his NAE membership, he was an honorary fellow of the AIAA and the British Interplanetary Society, and a fellow in the IRE/IEEE, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Astronautical Society, Royal Aeronautical Society, American Geophysical Union, and Institute for the Advancement of Engineering.
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