Word: lowing
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AMONG the thousands of groundlings who worked to make Apollo 8 a success, the person most responsible for the flight was a Vienna-born engineer named George Low, who is little known outside the NASA community. Low's title is that of manager of the Apollo spacecraft program, and as such he was in charge of making certain that all the essential hardware, from the spaceship structure down to the smallest switch and relay, was in working order. But Low's role in the Apollo program goes far beyond that: other, higher-ranking officials in NASA agree that...
...Low, 42, came with his family from Austria to the U.S. in 1940, when he was 14. He took his degrees in aeronautical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA's predecessor) in 1949, and nine years later became NASA's chief of manned space flight...
...that time, Apollo was a hazy project, with some sort of circumlunar flight scheduled for some time in the unforeseeable future. In October 1960, Low made the first official proposal that Apollo's aim should be to land Americans on the moon. As NASA's Washington-based chief of manned-space-flight programming, Low wrote: "It has become increasingly apparent that a preliminary program for manned lunar landings should be formulated. This is necessary to provide a proper justification for Apollo...
Seven months later, as chairman of a committee investigating the problems of lunar landing, Low provided the facts and figures that persuaded newly elected President John F. Kennedy to declare that the nation's aim should indeed be to achieve lunar landing within...
...these efforts have helped raise U.S. Steel's share of the market a bit-from a low of 23.5% last year to the current 25%. Meanwhile the company has diversified fairly rapidly by expanding its petrochemical operations and by venturing into such varied fields as aircraft leasing and lumber products...