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John Houbolt

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John Houbolt was an American aerospace engineer whose advocacy of lunar-orbit rendezvous helped define NASA's successful Apollo Moon-landing strategy.

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John Houbolt ranks #11 of 196 in the Engineer ranking, behind W. Edwards Deming, ahead of Alec Skempton.

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John Houbolt scores 9.26/10 (Excellent) on Lunoo, making it one of the highest-rated options in the Engineer category. His lunar-orbit-rendezvous advocacy made Apollo's landing architecture feasible; initially controversial judgment became one of aerospace engineering'...
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