biography
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Gilruth, Robert (Rowe)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1913–2000)
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| biography:
| Aeronautical engineer, born in Nashwauk, Minnesota, USA. He studied at the University of Minnesota. In 1958 he was appointed head of the NASA programme which put the first American, John Glenn, into Earth orbit in 1962, and the first men on the Moon in 1969. |
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