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806 Biographical Appendix
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Charles H. Zimmerman (1907– ) was handpicked by Robert R. Gilruth to serve
on the first Space Task Group in 1958 and served as Director of Aeronautical
Research in NASA’s Office of Advanced Research and Technology from 1962­
1963. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas
in 1929 and joined the staff of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
in that same year. He spent the next 33 years of his life in government and private
industry developing and improving new aircraft. Zimmerman earned a master’s
degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Virginia in 1954 and
two years later was the recipient of both the Alexander Klemin Award of the
American Helicopter Society and the Wright Brothers Medal of the Society of
Automotive Engineers. See “Charles H. Zimmerman,” biographical file 002882,
NASA Historical Reference Collection, History Division, NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC.