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Dr. Hugh L. Dryden NASA history collection

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Dr. Hugh L. Dryden was appointed NASA's first Deputy Administrator on August 19, 1958. In the interim after Dr. T. Keith Glennan's resignation and before James E. Webb's appointment, Dryden also served as the agency's Acting Administrator from January 21, 1961 to February 14 of the same year. Additionally, he held the position of Director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), NASA's predecessor, from 1947 until October 1958. Dr. Dryden was born in Pocomoke City, Maryland on July 2, 1898. He completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. Before joining the NACA, he was Associate Director of the National Bureau of Standards, where he had served since 1918. He was Deputy Administrator of NASA until his death in December 1965...Center: HQ.GRIN # : GPN-2002-000105.Image # : dryden01

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