Jan 1 1974
From The Space Library
Appointment of Gerald J. Mossinghoff as Assistant General Counsel of NASA became effective. Mossinghoff had been Deputy Assistant Administrator for Legislative Affairs since 1971, after earlier serving as Director of Legislative Liaison. He would continue to serve as Acting Deputy Assistant until a successor was appointed. (NASA Ann, 3 Jan 74; NASA Release 74-1)
Josef Boehm, rocket pioneer from Peenemünde, Germany, and Chief of Marshall Space Flight Center's Electromechanical Engineering Div., died at the age of 65. An associate professor of kinematics before joining Dr. Wernher von Braun in 1939 at the Rocket Research Center in Peenemünde, Boehm came to the United States in November 1945 with Dr. von Braun under U.S. contract. He was instrumental in designing and engineering the first U.S. spacecraft for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, beginning with Explorer I (launched 31 Jan. 1958) , and continued with MSFC after it was formed in 1960. He had a major role in developing the Skylab Workshop's Apollo Telescope Mount. (Marshall Star, 9 Jan 74, 4; Huntsville Times, 1 Jan 74)
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