← all shorts

Person

Charles Stark Draper

A man with white hair and glasses wears a dark suit, light blue shirt, and patterned tie, set against a dark background.

American aeronautical engineer (1901–1987), founder of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and the principal architect of inertial guidance. He famously offered, when pitching Apollo to NASA, to fly the mission himself as proof his system would work. He did not, but the system did. His name now sits on the laboratory that built it.

Mentioned in 2 articles