William Hayward Pickering, known as Bill Pickering, was a New Zealand aerospace engineer who headed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for 22 years until he retired in 1976. Born in Wellington in 1910 and dying in 2004, he moved to the United States to study at the California Institute of Technology, where he took a doctorate in physics in 1936 specialising in telemetry. He became involved with JPL in 1944 and was its Director from 1954. Under him JPL worked on the Private and Corporal missiles for the US Army, launched Explorer 1 on 31 January 1958, and after the laboratory's projects moved to NASA that year led the Ranger, Surveyor and Mariner missions. He was a founding member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.
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