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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alex A. McCool
Jr. is manager of the Space Shuttle Projects Office at the NASA George
C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. During his
career, McCool contributed to several space developments including
Skylab and the Space Shuttle program. After college, McCool first went
to work for the Army Corps of Engineers, which assigned him to work on
hydraulics projects in Mississippi. Soon afterward, he began his career
in rocket development in 1954 at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, working
on the design of the Redstone Jupiter rocket. In 1960 he joined NASA. As
a charter member of the Marshall Center, McCool was instrumental in the
design of the propulsion systems for the Saturn launch vehicles that
propelled Project Apollo to the Moon and directed project engineering
for Skylab, the first space science laboratory.
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