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Harry Julian Allen, Director of Ames Research Center (1965-1969), and creator of the "Blunt Body Theory" of aerodynamics, a design technique for alleviating the severe re-entry heating problem, which led to the design of ablative heat shields that protected the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts.

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Great Images In NASA - http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001777.html

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1957

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