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Usa: space, the New Zealand Pickering died

Washington, Usa - He was the American astronautics pioneer

Nasa announced the death of William Pickering, pioneer of the space conquest by the American astronautics. Born in New Zealand in 1910, "Mr JPL" as he was dearly called, went to Usa in 1929 to study at the California Technology Institute (Caltech), obtained the American nationality in '41 and was director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Nasa in Pasadena from '54 to '76. He was one of the most outstanding...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 60223
Rome, Italy, 03/17/2004 17:46
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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