George M. Low
contributorProgram Leadership & Administration
NASA engineer and manager who helped formulate the lunar-landing program, rebuilt Apollo spacecraft management after the Apollo 1 fire, and proposed Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission.
- Primary role
- Apollo spacecraft program manager and NASA deputy administrator
- Lifespan
- 1926–1984
- Relationships
- 12
- Sources
- 3
Biography
Place in spaceflight history
Low worked on early Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo planning; assumed management of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office after the 1967 fire; tightened testing and configuration control; and proposed the lunar-orbit flight that became Apollo 8.
His program decisions connected post-fire spacecraft reform to an incremental flight sequence that restored confidence and advanced Apollo toward a lunar landing.
George M. Low’s archive record spans Aeronautical engineer, Apollo Spacecraft Program Office manager, NASA deputy administrator through work connected with NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Headquarters, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. The linked record places that work within Project Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, Space Shuttle.
Career profile
Roles, organizations, and programs
Roles
- Aeronautical engineer
- Apollo Spacecraft Program Office manager
- NASA deputy administrator
Programs
- Project Mercury
- Gemini
- Apollo
- Skylab
- Apollo-Soyuz
- Space Shuttle
Archive relationships
Named records, programs, and organizations connected to this archive identity.
- Apollo 1Took charge of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office after the fire and directed the spacecraft corrections required for a safe return to flight
- Apollo 8Developed the proposal to send the first crewed Saturn V and command-service module mission to lunar orbit
- Apollo 11Managed the Apollo spacecraft program through the redesign and flight sequence that preceded the first lunar landing
- NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion LaboratoryCanonical organization
- NASA HeadquartersCanonical organization
- NASA Manned Spacecraft CenterCanonical organization
- Project MercurySpaceflight program
- GeminiSpaceflight program
- ApolloSpaceflight program
- SkylabSpaceflight program
- Apollo-SoyuzSpaceflight program
- Space ShuttleSpaceflight program
Sources
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