Everything about The Space Task Group totally explained
The
Space Task Group was a working group of engineers based at
Langley Research Center in
Hampton, Virginia. Created in 1958, the group was part of
NASA and was tasked with superintending America's
manned spaceflight program.
Created on
November 5,
1958, the Space Task Group was headed by
Robert Gilruth. Originally it consisted of only forty-five people, including eight secretaries and "computers" (the term for women who ran calculations on mechanical adding machines). Of its thirty-seven engineers, twenty-seven were from
Langley Research Center and ten had been assigned from
Lewis Research Center in
Cleveland, Ohio. Original members of the group included Charles Donlan, Gilruth's deputy;
Max Faget, head of engineering; Chuck Mathews, head of flight operations;
Chris Kraft, also in flight operations; and
Glynn Lunney, who at twenty-one was the youngest member of the group.
In 1959, the group was greatly expanded by the addition of thirty-two engineers from Canada, who had been left without jobs when the
Avro Arrow project was cancelled. These new additions, Canadians and some British, included
Jim Chamberlin,
John Hodge,
Owen Maynard,
Rodney Rose and
Tecwyn Roberts.
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