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Topic: Alex McCool, shuttle manager (1923-2020)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-14-2020 07:18 PM
   
Alex McCool, who worked with Wernher von Braun as a member of the original staff at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama before rising to lead the center's space shuttle projects office, died on Tuesday (July 14, 2020). He was 96.The Huntsville Times profiled McCool in July 2019. McCool was an original member of the Marshall staff when the NASA center in Huntsville, Ala., was created in 1960, and he worked on the Saturn V rocket's propulsion system and the Skylab mission that used Saturn V to launch America's first space station. He managed the space shuttle propulsion program when it was a $1 billion line item in NASA's budget every year."I did learn a lot from some of the teachers we had like von Braun and the German team and what they allowed us to do," McCool said. "And I carried that over." "Flying to the moon and Mars is hard," McCool said. "It takes leadership. Leadership (for Apollo) came from (President) Kennedy, but the other part was von Braun. He's the one that said we can beat 'em to the Moon, and he did that before Al Shepard flew." In 2011, McCool participated in NASA's STS Recordation Oral History Project. |
GACspaceguy
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