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John Houbolt

1919 - 2014

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John Cornelius Houbolt (April 10, 1919 – April 15, 2014) was an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode, a concept that was used to successfully land humans on the Moon and return them to Earth. This flight path was chosen for the Apollo program in July 1962. The critical decision to use LOR was viewed as vital to ensuring that man reached the Moon by the end of the decade as proposed by President John F. Kennedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Houbolt has received more than 148,805 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John Houbolt is the 333rd most popular engineer (down from 296th in 2019), the 11,630th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,823rd in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, John Houbolt ranks 333 out of 323. Before her are Sydney Camm, John Lombe, Mehdi Jomaa, Thomas Sopwith, James Allison, and Mike Coughlan. After her are Tessy Thomas, Tom Kilburn, Mike Gascoyne, Nicholas Tombazis, Naoki Hattori, and Brian McGuire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, John Houbolt ranks 305. Before her are Marga Petersen, Nellie Connally, Pauline Betz, Shirley Clarke, Jack McGrath, and Johnny Carey. After her are Isabella Abbott, Walt Hansgen, Ellen Stewart, Naushad, George Avakian, and Gretchen Fraser. Among people deceased in 2014, John Houbolt ranks 464. Before her are Gerald Wilson, Ann B. Davis, Zohra Sehgal, Béla Várady, Viscera, and Peter Sculthorpe. After her are Barbara Prammer, Mónica Spear, Imre Gedővári, Rainer Hasler, Leslie Feinberg, and Dave Power.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Houbolt ranks 11,630 out of 18,182. Before her are Nima Arkani-Hamed (1972), Chelsea Manning (1987), Pamela Adlon (1966), Tony Bettenhausen (1916), Henry M. Jackson (1912), and Bill Wheatley (1909). After her are George Stoneman (1822), Lawrence Taylor (1959), Mo'Nique (1967), Brooklyn Decker (1987), Marguerite Churchill (1910), and Justina Machado (1972).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, John Houbolt ranks 41. Before her are Robert H. Dennard (1932), Chuck Peddle (1937), Sidney Darlington (1906), Gordon Bell (1934), Robert Zubrin (1952), and Tom Dowd (1925). After her are Ted Jensen (1954), Douglas H. Wheelock (1960), Jonathan James (1983), Randall Munroe (1984), and Alia Sabur (1989).

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