Bill Pickering (rocket scientist) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-18

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00:00:30 1 Origins and education
00:01:15 2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory
00:02:47 3 Retirement
00:03:25 4 Death
00:03:41 5 Gifford Observatory
00:04:03 6 Honours
00:05:09 7 Honorific eponyms



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William Hayward "Bill" Pickering  (24 December 1910 – 15 March 2004) was a New Zealand-born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space. Pickering was also a founding member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.