Apollo 11, George Mueller in Launch Control Center, 1969
George Mueller follows the progress of the Apollo 11 mission. George Edwin Mueller (July 16, 1918 - October 12, 2015), was an American electrical engineer who headed the Office of Manned Space Flight from September 1963 until December 1969. During the fall of 1963 Webb worked with Associate Administrator Robert Seamans to restructure NASA, shifting three key centers (Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), and the Launch Operations Center (LOC)) to report directly to Mueller, as well as a local staff at Headquarters. Mueller accepted the job, and took a substantial pay cut. The reorganization of NASA and the Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF) was announced in November 1963. Hailed as one of NASA's most brilliant and fearless managers, he was instrumental in introducing the all-up testing philosophy for the Saturn V launch vehicle, which ensured the success of the Apollo program in landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth by the end of 1969. Almost everyone who worked with Mueller on Apollo agreed he was technically brilliant and exceedingly capable. Mueller also played a key part in the design of Skylab, and championed the space shuttle's development, which earned him the nickname, the father of the space shuttle. Mueller died of congestive heart failure in 2015 at the age of 97. This photo was taken on July 16, 1969 in the Launch Control Center at the Spaceport on the morning of the launch.
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