Fwd: [New post] NASA ‘Space Planner’ Brainerd Holmes, Dead at 91

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From: AmericaSpace <donotreply@wordpress.com>
Date: January 14, 2013 5:56:45 AM GMT-06:00
To: bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com
Subject: [New post] NASA 'Space Planner' Brainerd Holmes, Dead at 91

Ben Evans posted: "[caption id="attachment_30111" align="aligncenter" width="491"] Brainerd Holmes (far left) was one of the men directly responsible for sending men to the Moon on project Apollo. Holmes passed away last week - he was 91. Photo Credit: NASA / MSFC[/caption]" New post on AmericaSpace NASA 'Space Planner' Brainerd Holmes, Dead at 91 by Ben Evans In spite of a relatively short career within NASA's senior leadership, D. Brainerd Holmes – who died on Friday, aged 91, from complications of pneumonia – established himself as a shining star in the Apollo era, to such an extent that he found himself on the cover of Time magazine in August 1962 as the [...] Read more of this post Ben Evans | January 14, 2013 at 6:00 am | Tags: aerospace, AmericaSpace, Apollo, Astronaut, Brainerd Holmes, Cape Canaveral, Exploration, Explore, Gordon Cooper, Human Space Flight, James Webb, Joe Shea, John Glenn, Lunar, Lunar Orbital Rendezvous, Mercury Mark II, Moon, NASA, Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF), Project Gemini, Robert Gilruth, Robert Seamans, rocket, Rockets, Saturn V, Scott Carpenter, Space, space exploration, Wally Schirra, Werner Von Braun | Categories: Apollo, Ben Evans, Space | URL: http://wp.me/p1YCNG-7Pl Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.americaspace.org/?p=30091