Paul C. Donnelly Scientist

Paul Charles Donnelly (March 28, 1923 – March 12, 2014) was an American guided missile pioneer and a senior NASA manager during the Apollo moon landing program at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Responsible for the checkout of all Apollo launch vehicles and spacecraft, he was also involved in every U.S. manned launch from Alan Shepard's Mercury suborbital flight in 1961 through the tenth space shuttle mission (STS-41B) in 1984.During World War II, Donnelly helped develop the U.S. Navy's Bat, the first "smart bomb" in the history of warfare, which his Navy squadron dropped on Japanese ships in Borneo's Balikpapan Harbor in 1945.

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Paul C. Donnelly
Birth dateMarch 28, 1923
Birth place
Altoona Pennsylvania
Date of deathMarch 12, 2014
Place of death
Florida , Melbourne Florida
Residence
United States
Known for
Apollo program

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awards
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal
NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
Field of study
Electrical engineering
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