Rocco A. Petrone
Rocco A. Petrone (born March 31, 1926 in Amsterdam , New York , † August 24, 2006 in Palos Verdes Estates , California ) was an American engineer (NASA).
Petrone studied at the US Military Academy at West Point and entered the US Army in 1946, most recently in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel . After receiving a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Rollins College in 1951 .
In the US Army, Petrone worked as an engineer on various missile programs, including a. also on the Redstone project, the armed forces’s first ballistic missile.
In 1960 he moved to NASA and worked in the later Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on the development of the Saturn . In particular, he was involved in the development of the Saturn launcher, which was also used for the Apollo mission in the late 1960s / early 1970s. From 1966 to 1969 he was director of all launching devices. He then became director of the Apollo program at NASA headquarters; In 1972 he also became director of the Apollo - Soyuz Test Project. In 1973/74 he became director of the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Alabama. In 1974 he moved to Washington, DC as the official NASA representative. On his retirement in 1975 he became CEO of the National Center for Resource Recovery .
He was married and had four children.
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| SURNAME | Petrone, Rocco A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer (NASA) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 2006 |
| Place of death | Palos Verdes Estates , California |