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Petrone, Rocco
Petrone
Petrone
Credit: NASA
American engineer, managed development of the Redstone at Huntsville, then the Saturn V at NASA, 1960-1974.

Born: 1926-03-31. Died: 2006-08-24.

Rocco Petrone was heavily involved at NASA with the development of the Saturn V booster used to launch Apollo spacecraft to the Moon in the 1960s and early 1970s. He worked at the Marshall Space Flight Center, and became its director in 1973. He left Marshall in 1974 for a position at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1974, and retired from the agency in 1975. He than became president and chief executive officer of the National Center for Resource Recovery.



Country: USA. Agency: NASA. Bibliography: 535, 5885.

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