page_title: Edgar Cortright
section_title: After NASA
hierarchical_section_title: Edgar Cortright / Career / After NASA
caption_attribution_description: English: Edgar Cortright, Director of NASA's Langley Research Center 1968-1975.
context_page_description: Edgar Maurice Cortright was a scientist and engineer, and senior official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States. His most prominent positions during his career were Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, and Chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which investigated the explosion that occurred during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in 1970.
context_section_description: Cortright left NASA to become Corporate Vice President and Technical Director at Owens Illinois Corporation from 1975–1979. He also held the positions of Senior Vice President for Science and Engineering (1978) and President (1979–1983) at Lockheed-California Company in Los Angeles, California.
  He died from a stroke in Palm City, Florida, on May 4, 2014, aged 90.
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