Charles Stark (Doc) Draper
In 1961, Draper and his lab were awarded the contract for guidance and navigation for the Apollo program, the first program contract to be awarded and under his leadership, MIT/IL developed the highly innovative and successful AGC. Personally, Draper was strongly in favour of the US space program, going so far as to offer his services as navigator for the Apollo flights. In 1973, the Instrumentation Laboratory was spun off from MIT and the new lab was named the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Draper died in 1987. Read Draper's letters to Bob Seamans, offering his services as Apollo navigator [letter1, letter2] Sources
-- A.B., Jan, 2002. |
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