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[i]...the successful Atlas rocket that the effort produced eventually served as the launch vehicle for the Project Mercury program, which sent John Glenn orbiting the Earth. A subsidiary that Dr. Ramo established on a 100-acre campus in Redondo Beach, Space Park, later won the first spacecraft contract issued by NASA. Noting that Southern California's weather was perfect for flying airplanes, he helped turn the region into the center of the aerospace and weapons industry. "He was among America's greatest scientists and business and defense innovators," Wes Bush, the chairman of Northrop Grumman, said in a statement. "He was a true aerospace visionary."[/i]
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