November 1984
From The Space Library
Upon the departure at the end of November of Dr. Donald P. Hearth from NASA, Richard H. Petersen will move from deputy director to director of LaRC. Hearth had been center director at Langley since September 1975. He joined NASA in 1962 and had held various agency positions, including deputy director of Planetary Programs at NASA Head-quarters. Petersen had served as deputy center director at LaRC since July 1980. He began his career at ARC in 1957 and was chief of the Aerodynamics Division there from 1975 until he joined Langley. (NASA Release 84-163)
USA Today reported that Miss Baker, the squirrel monkey that joined another monkey, Able, in the U.S.'s first spaceflight May 28, 1959, died November 27 of kidney failure. She was buried in the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. (USA Today, Nov 31/84, 3A)
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