Director of LM program has died

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Director of LM program has died

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NY Times wrote:Joseph G. Gavin Jr., who rode herd over the immensely complex design, construction and testing of the first vehicle to visit the moon — a task that included anticipating 400 different landing surfaces, from ice to boulders to dust to potholes — died on Saturday in Amherst, Mass. He was 90.

The cause was acute leukemia and pneumonia, his family said.
Joseph Gavin, Who Helped Put First Man on Moon, Dies at 90
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