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Paul C. Donnelly
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![]() Official NASA portrait, 1969
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Born | |
Died | March 12, 2014 |
(aged 90)
Known for | Apollo launch operations management |
Awards | NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2) NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (3) NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Guided missiles, electrical engineering |
Institutions | 1942–45: National Hydraulic Lab 1946–58: Navy Bur. of Ordnance |
Influences | Hugh L. Dryden |
Influenced | George Page, Robert Sieck |
Paul Charles Donnelly (March 28, 1923 - March 12, 2014) was an American guided missile pioneer and a senior NASA manager. He was the manager during the Apollo moon landing program at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Donnelly helped develop the U.S. Navy's Bat, the first "smart bomb" in the history of warfare. He was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Donnelly died on March 12, 2014 in Melbourne, Florida, aged 90.
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Donnelly (r) with John Glenn (c) and T.J. O'Malley in front of Friendship 7 in 1962.
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