Biography

George E. Mueller was born on July 16, 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was married to Maude Rosenbaum and Darla Hix Schwartzman. He died on October 12, 2015 in the USA.

He received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. He worked on the development of microwave tubes, television, and radar. He worked at Bell Labs in New Jersey and took graduate courses at Princeton University. While he was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Ohio State University, he received a PhD in physics.

He was an engineer, scientist, and administrator who was given much of the credit for enabling NASA to meet President John F. Kennedy's manned moon landing timetable.

As a boy, he loved science fiction. He built model airplanes powered by rubber bands, as well as radio receivers.

In the 1950s, he went to work in the aerospace industry. After joining Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., he remained there through a merger into what was to become TRW. He was influential in the development of the intercontinental ballistic missile.

He helped design Skylab, the USA's first space station, and spoke out strongly in favor of a lower-cost, reusable launch vehicle.

[on direction] It is comforting to know that not only the steps but also the stops of a good man are ordered by the Lord.