Milton William Rosen (25 July 1915 to 30 December 2014) was a United States Navy engineer and project manager in the American space program between the end of World War II and the early days of Apollo. Born in Philadelphia, he graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937 and joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1940. He led development of the Viking sounding rocket, the first large American liquid-fuelled rocket, whose twelve flights between 1949 and 1955 explored the upper atmosphere, and he was project manager of Project Vanguard, the satellite launcher built on Viking. In 1959 he was principal author of a report to President Eisenhower proposing three families of launch vehicles, work that fed into the definition of the Saturn rockets that carried Apollo to the Moon.
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Milton William Rosen (July 25, 1915 – December 30, 2014) was a United States Navy engineer and project manager in the US space program
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Milton William Rosen (July 25, 1915, December 30, 2014) was a United States Navy engineer and project manager in the US space program
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Rosen went on after Vanguard to be involved in a number of important NASA studies and committees
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He led development of the Viking and Vanguard rockets, and was influential in the critical decisions early in NASA's history that led to the definition of the Saturn rockets
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