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    John Cornelius Houbolt (April 10, 1919 – April 15, 2014) was an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)...
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    Service Module. Dr. John Houbolt would not let the advantages of LOR be ignored. As a member of Lunar Mission Steering Group, Houbolt had been studying...
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    would be nearly impossible in lunar orbit. LOR advocates including John Houbolt at Langley Research Center emphasized the important weight reductions...
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  • Administrator until 1965. John Carroll Lynch as Robert R. Gilruth, first Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center Reed Birney as John Houbolt, the NASA Langley...
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    the city to the region. John Falsey (1951–2019), writer, director, and producer of TV shows such as Northern Exposure John Houbolt (1919–2014), Aerospace...
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  • Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage" 1998 From the Earth to the Moon John Houbolt Episode: "Spider" 2000 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Harry Waters...
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    superiority, by fulfilling a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and...
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    assembled while still in orbit around the Earth. However, dissenters such as John Houbolt, a Langley engineer, favored an approach that was then considered to...
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  • it was largely ignored by NASA administrators until Langley engineer John Houbolt began championing the concept in 1961. The proposed idea outlined a smaller...
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    Several NASA officials, including Langley Research Center engineer John Houbolt and NASA Administrator George Low, argued that a lunar orbit rendezvous...
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    astronaut on the Moon. Chamberlin had been impressed with NASA engineer John Houbolt's advocacy of Lunar orbit rendezvous as the method to go to the Moon....
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    enhanced understanding of this field. 1962 – Robert E. Bourdeau 1963 – John Houbolt 1965 – Jack N. James 1966 – Richard Franz Joseph Arenstorf (He was awarded...
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    Oliver Press, ISBN 1-881508-77-3, (p. 66) John Cornelius Houbolt was born in Altoona ... In spring 1936, John graduated from Joliet Township High School...
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  • Live Wendy Anderson Halperin, children's book illustrator and writer John Houbolt (1919–2014), aerospace engineer Mort Kondracke (born 1939), political...
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  • A6M Horten brothers (1913–1998) (1915–1994) – flying wing designers John Houbolt (1919–2014) – NASA engineer, lunar orbit rendezvous proponent Kathleen...
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  • American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) 1919 – John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (d. 2014) 1921 – Chuck Connors, American...
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  • 1946) 2013 – Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (b. 1928) 2014 – John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (b. 1919) 2014 – Eliseo Verón, Argentinian...
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  • U.S. (1988) Hipparchus, Greece (2004) Walter Hohmann, Germany (1976) John Houbolt, U.S. Edwin Hubble, U.S. (2001) James Irwin, U.S. (1983) Alexei Isayev...
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  • controllers Gene Kranz, Christopher Kraft, John Hodge and Sy Liebergot, engineers Günter Wendt, Max Faget, John Houbolt, Bob Gore, Robert Sieck and Richard Dunne...
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  • and orbital mechanics 'genius' from the Langley Research Center", and John Houbolt, NASA engineer who advocated for the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR). Fishman...
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  • considered the foremost designer of North American movie theatre interiors John Houbolt (1919–2014), aerospace engineer, Apollo 11 route planner Arend Lijphart...
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    rendezvous (LOR) was studied at Langley Research Center as early as 1960. John Houbolt's memorandum advocating LOR for lunar missions in November 1961 to Robert...
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  • complications from hip surgery. William Hird, 92, Australian cricketer. John Houbolt, 95, American aerospace engineer, complications from Parkinson's disease...
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  • From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries) (category John Young (astronaut))
    Wolk April 19, 1998 (1998-04-19) Returns to 1961, and NASA engineer John Houbolt's lonely fight to convince management that the easiest way to land men...
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    Lunar modules. This early work by engineers like Lau helped to convince John Houbolt and others that LOR was the best way to get to the moon. Lau and his...
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  • (ft) Length (m) Cash tolls (automobile) Notes Houbolt Road Extension Bridge United Bridge Partners Houbolt Road Des Plaines River 2,112.0 643.7 $5.50 Pay-by-Plate...
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  • American dancer, choreography, author, educator and social activist Dr. John C. Houbolt, 1938 - NASA scientist George Sangmeister, 1951 - former Illinois Congressman...
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    Press of Florida, 2009), with Allan J. McDonald Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept (1995), with...
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  • as airport Security officer Erdil Yaşaroğlu as Professor Günhan Sarah Houbolt as airport Djinn Aamito Lagum as the Queen of Sheba Sabrina Dhowre as the...
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  • Aerialist Lutz Halbhubner as Ringmaster John Clarke as Sad Clown Dallas Barnett as Boss Tanya Drewery Sarah Houbolt Ascia Maybury Damien Gordon Zach Brickland...
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