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4 unusual facts about John Muratore


John Muratore

He served four years as a research associate professor at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, TN.

John F. Muratore is an American engineer, former professor of Aviation Systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, TN and current Director of Vehicle Certification at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA.

From 1996 to 2003, he was the Program Manager of the X-38 program, an unmanned demonstrator which performed a series of successful demonstration flights at Edwards Air Force Base.

He gathered a team of young, relatively inexperienced but highly motivated engineers to try to apply the 'faster, better, cheaper' method advocated by Daniel Goldin to human spaceflight, in order for NASA to obtain at affordable cost a Crew Return Vehicle.



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