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NEWS RELEASES

  DR. ROBERT GILRUTH, AN ARCHITECT OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT, DIES



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NEWS RELEASES


DR. ROBERT GILRUTH, AN ARCHITECT OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT, DIES

Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, an aerospace scientist, engineer, and one 
of the pioneers of human space flight, died early today. He was 
86.

Dr. Gilruth is best known as the first director of what would 
become the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. With the beginning 
of the space age and the creation of NASA, Dr. Gilruth was given 
the task of putting a man in orbit with project Mercury.  While at 
the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Dr. Gilruth conceived and 
directed the Gemini program, which tested man's ability to 
control, rendezvous, and dock spacecraft in Earth orbit. 


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Bob Jacobs (Phone: 
202/358-1600)
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX:  Ed Campion 
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

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