In 1961, President Kennedy outlined a bold plan for America: to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade. Even for a nation of dreamers and builders, it was ...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy outlined a bold plan for America: to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade. Even for a nation of dreamers and builders, ...

NASA Engineer George Mueller, who was known as the "father of the space shuttle" and a leader in the U.S. space agency's spaceflight efforts through the historic moon landing in the 1960s, died on ...

Last week, the world lost a quiet giant. The lessons he taught us may yet save us. Perhaps the single most important man in the group responsible for bringing to life John F. Kennedy’s goal of putting ...

George Mueller, the celebrated creator and first leader of NASA’s Office of Manned Spaceflight during the Cold War, died last week at his residence in Irvine, Calif. He was 97. Born on July 16, 1918, ...

George Mueller, the NASA administrator who helped steer the agency during the 1960s and was known as the ‘father of the space shuttle’, died earlier this week at the age of 97. Mueller joined NASA in ...

George Mueller, a coolly decisive, hard-driving engineer, scientist and administrator who was given much of the credit for enabling NASA to meet President John F. Kennedy’s manned moon landing ...

Long before Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos started pouring money into outer space ventures, George Mueller, often called the “father of the space shuttle,” was developing a reusable rocket in Kirkland.