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John Houbolt

1919 - 2014

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John Cornelius Houbolt (April 10, 1919 – April 15, 2014) was an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode, a concept that was used to successfully land humans on the Moon and return them to Earth. This flight path was chosen for the Apollo program in July 1962. The critical decision to use LOR was viewed as vital to ensuring that man reached the Moon by the end of the decade as proposed by President John F. Kennedy. In the process, LOR saved time and billions of dollars by efficiently using the available rocket and spacecraft technologies. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Houbolt is the 368th most popular engineer (down from 336th in 2019), the 13,491st most popular biography from United States (down from 9,917th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Houbolt ranks 368 out of 389. Before her are David S. Johnson, Tom Kilburn, Pat Fry, Mike Gascoyne, Mike Coughlan, and John Rennie the Elder. After her are James Allison, Rajeshwari Chatterjee, Sergey Volkov, Sydney Camm, Charles Ingram, and C. H. Douglas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, John Houbolt ranks 347. Before her are Gretchen Fraser, Kaifi Azmi, Marie Windsor, Stanley Middleton, George Avakian, and Jayne Meadows. After her are Mason Adams, Wally Hickel, Shamshad Begum, Steve Brodie, Janet Waldo, and Beryl Reid. Among people deceased in 2014, John Houbolt ranks 531. Before her are Philippe Mahut, Malik Bendjelloul, Abdelkader El Brazi, Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Elena Baltacha, and Man Haron Monis. After her are Wayne Frye, Paul Horn, Rainer Hasler, Robert Ashley, Krzysztof Krauze, and Alex Chandre de Oliveira.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Houbolt ranks 13,495 out of 20,380. Before her are Mike Inez (1966), Smith Thompson (1768), Percy Lavon Julian (1899), Erika Christensen (1982), Norman Powell (1993), and Robert Frazer (1891). After her are William P. Fessenden (1806), Paul Caligiuri (1964), Kevin Connolly (1974), Rick Steiner (1961), Ryan Guzman (1987), and William B. Saxbe (1916).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, John Houbolt ranks 46. Before her are T. Keith Glennan (1905), Chuck Peddle (1937), Robert R. Gilruth (1913), Tom Dowd (1925), Robert Zubrin (1952), and David S. Johnson (1945). After her are Douglas H. Wheelock (1960), Henry M. Morris (1918), Ted Jensen (1954), Jonathan James (1983), Randall Munroe (1984), and Alia Sabur (1989).

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