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Topic: David Hoag, Apollo GNC manager (1925-2015)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 02-25-2015 08:04 AM
   
Aeronautical engineer David Hoag, who in 1961 was tapped to lead the development of the guidance, navigation, and control systems on the Apollo command module and lunar module, died of complications from dementia on Jan. 19, 2015. He was 89. Interviewed by the [Boston] Globe in early 1969, Mr. Hoag described his job simply as "keeping the project together."After he and his team spent years creating and reworking the guidance system, astronauts first landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Mr. Hoag marveled at the amazing ingenuity of all those involved in the historic achievement. "In an incredible and audacious task, the landing of men on the moon, the guidance equipment for the mission was created out of primitive principles, prolific imagination, and a lot of hard work," he wrote in the 1976 report. |
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