Charles Stark Draper
(1901-1987)
American engineer
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Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.
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2 October 1901 Windsor, Missouri
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25 July 1987 (aged 85) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
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