Rocket scientist
January 8, 2012, Sunday
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LOWELL Randall, a pioneer rocket scientist who helped launched the US space program and tested intercontinental ballistic missiles, has died. He was 96. He died on Tuesday of natural causes at the Good Samaritan Las Cruces Village, a nursing home in New Mexico. Randall was part of a team lead by rocket pioneer Robert Goddard, who developed liquid Jet Assist Take Off rocket engines, a key element for moon spaceflights.
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