Tecwyn Roberts (10 October 1925 to 27 December 1988) was a Welsh spaceflight engineer who in the 1960s played important roles in designing the Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and in creating NASA's worldwide tracking and communications network. Born in Liverpool and raised largely on Anglesey, he studied aeronautical engineering at Southampton and worked for Saunders-Roe before joining Avro Canada, where he was part of the team that built the CF-105 Arrow interceptor. When that project was cancelled in 1959 he followed Jim Chamberlin to NASA's Space Task Group, served as the first Flight Dynamics Officer for Project Mercury, and later directed the global tracking network at the Goddard Space Flight Center that supported crewed and uncrewed low Earth orbit flights.
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Tecwyn Roberts (10 October 1925 – 27 December 1988) was a Welsh spaceflight engineer
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Tecwyn Roberts (10 October 1925-27 December 1988) was a Welsh spaceflight engineer
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Roberts served as NASA's first Flight Dynamics Officer with Project Mercury that put the first American into space.
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the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas
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Roberts served as NASA's first Flight Dynamics Officer with Project Mercury that put the first American into space
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