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Edgar Cortright (Edgar Maurice Cortright) was born on 29 July, 1923 in Hastings, Pennsylvania, U.S., is a Senior NASA official-administrator (1923-2014). Discover Edgar Cortright's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

Popular As Edgar Maurice Cortright
Occupation Engineering and executive positions at NASA and private corporations
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 29 July 1923
Birthday 29 July
Birthplace Hastings, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date of death 4 May, 2014
Died Place Palm City, Florida, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1923

Edgar Maurice Cortright (July 29, 1923 – May 4, 2014) was a scientist and engineer, and senior official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States.

Cortright was born on July 29, 1923, in Hastings, Pennsylvania, a coal mining district in the west of the state.

His family moved to the Philadelphia area where he attended high school.

1941

Cortright enlisted in the United States Navy in September 1941 where he was a Lieutenant.

He went on to work at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (now the Glenn Research Center) at NACA, in Cleveland, Ohio.

1945

He married Beverly Jane Hotaling in 1945 and she died in 2012.

Their children were Susan and David, and Cortright had three grandsons at the time of his death.

1947

He earned a B.S. followed by an M.S. in aeronautical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1947 and 1949.

At RPI, he was roommates with George Low (who would go on to become NASA Administrator, and later President of RPI).

1948

There, he held the positions of Aeronautical Research Scientist (1948); Head of Small Supersonic Tunnels Section (1949–1954); and Chief, Eight-by-Six-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel Branch (1954–1958).

1957

He attended the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Nuclear Engineering School in 1957.

1958

He joined the newly formed NASA agency (successor to the NACA) as a founding member in 1958 and worked at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he was Chief of Advanced Technology (1958–1959); Assistant Director for Lunar and Planetary Programs, Office of Space Flight Programs, (1960–61); Deputy Director for Space Science and Applications (1961–1963); Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications (1963–1968); and Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Manned Space Flight, (1968).

1967

He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in October 1967.

1968

He was Director of the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, from 1968 to 1975.

1970

His most prominent positions during his career were Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, and Chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which investigated the explosion that occurred during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in 1970.

Following the spacecraft explosion during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in April 1970, Cortright was appointed chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which was established to investigate the cause of the accident.

The Board reported its findings to NASA in June 1970.

1975

Much later, in 1975, he got a Doctor of Engineering degree from Rensselaer (this was during the time while he was Director at NASA Langley).

Cortright gained membership to the Stephen Van Rensselaer Society of Patroons, people who have donate $1 million or more to Rensselaer.

His parents were Janet Pearsall Cortright and Edgar Maurice Cortright Sr. He had a sister, Janet, who died before him, and a brother, David.

Cortright left NASA to become Corporate Vice President and Technical Director at Owens Illinois Corporation from 1975–1979.

1978

He also held the positions of Senior Vice President for Science and Engineering (1978) and President (1979–1983) at Lockheed-California Company in Los Angeles, California.

2014

He died from a stroke in Palm City, Florida, on May 4, 2014, aged 90.