Jack Froehlich

Jack Froehlich

Jack Edward Froehlich (sometimes Froelich) (May 7, 1921–November 1967) was an American aerospace engineer (rocket scientist).

He worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, [cite news
title=1958 Alpha | publisher=Time | date=February 10, 1958
url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,868259-4,00.html
accessdate=2007-07-31 ] where he was a project director for the Explorer 1 program. [cite journal
author=Menzel, D. H.; Minnaert, M.; Levin, B.; Dollfus, A.; Bell, B.
title=Report on Lunar Nomenclature by The Working Group of Commission 17 of the IAU
journal=Space Science Reviews
year=1971 | volume=12 | pages=136–185
url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1971SSRv...12..136M
accessdate=2007-07-31
doi=10.1007/BF00171763 ]

CalTech's "Jack E. Froehlich Memorial Award" [ [http://mr.caltech.edu/media/commence/prizes.html Caltech Prizes and Awards] ] is named after him, as is the Froelich crater on the Moon.

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*cite web
last = Britt | first = Robert Roy | date =February 10, 2003
url =http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/triumph_tragedy_030210-1.html
title =Triumph and Tragedy: NASA's Five Decades of Bold Space Explorationl
publisher =Space.com | accessdate =2007-07-31


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