Mittauer, Richard T
Person · USA
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American journalist, worked in NASA public information 1959-1972.
Richard T. Mittauer had worked as a news editor for radio station WOW in his native Omaha, Nebraska, and as a news writer for ABC in Chicago before coming to Washington, D.C., in 1954 as a congressional intern at the American Political Science Association. From 1955-1959 he was press secretary for Senator Roman L. Hruska before joining NASA's office of public information the latter year. He became director of that office in 1972.