Background
MacNABB, Byron was born on August 14, 1910 in Gary, Indiana, United States. Son of Walter S. and Leila B. (nee Mogle) MacNabb.
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Byron Gordon MacNABB
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Education
Rose-Hulman Institute Technology, Terre Haute, and Illinois Institute of Technology.
Career
Worked for Camegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, South. Chicago 1930-1943. United States.N. officer 1943-1948. Assistant to Director of Research for Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, working on A-bomb 1948-1950.
Assistant to Director of Research, Pullman Standard Carolina Company 1950-1953.
Operations Manager for Cambridge Corporation, working on H-bomb 1953-1955. Joined Convair-Astronautics (now General Dynamies/Convair) 1955.
Operations Manager at Air Force Missile Test Center, Cape Canaveral 1955-1963, Director of Operations 1962-1963. Director of Test Engineering, General Dynamics/Astronautics, San Diego 1963-1965.
Operations Manager General Dynamies/Convair, Cape Kennedy 1965-1966.
Responsible for launch of first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, first four American astronauts to orbit Earth (Mercury Program), first payload to the Moon (Ranger), first fly-by of Venus and Mars (Mariner), first soft landing on the Moon (Surveyor), first hydrogen-propelled rocket (Centaur). Manager Tests and Operations, Advanced Interplanetary Programs, General Electric Company, Missile & Space Division 1966-1968. Consulting Engineer General Electric, Space and Re-entry Systems 1968-1975.
Presidential Citation for development of first antikamikaze anti aircraft weapon, and other.
Connections
Married 1st Iris L. Cook in 1939 (divorced in 1977). Married 2nd Kathryn F. Naylor in 1978.
