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Richard Battin was an American aerospace engineer and professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a pioneer in the development of digital guidance systems for spacecraft, and was a key figure in the Apollo program. Battin was born on March 3, 1925 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1947. He then went on to earn a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949. Battin began his career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he worked on the development of digital guidance systems for spacecraft. He was a key figure in the development of the Apollo Guidance Computer, which was used to guide the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. In 1965, Battin joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught electrical engineering for the next 25 years. He was a professor emeritus at the time of his death in 2010. Battin was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2004. He was also a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Battin was married to his wife, Mary, for over 60 years. He had two children, a son and a daughter. He died on August 8, 2010, at the age of 85.

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Age 99 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 3 March 1925
Birthday 3 March
Birthplace Atlantic City, New Jersey, US
Date of death (2014-02-08) Concord, Massachusetts
Died Place Concord, Massachusetts
Nationality United States

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1981

Battin was noted for his teaching abilities, especially for his work in teaching, mentoring and inspiring many of the leaders in the world's guidance, navigation and control community. Three of the Apollo astronauts were his graduate students. To honor his teaching abilities, the students of MIT's Aeronautics and Astronautics Department honored Battin with their first Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1981.

1972

In addition to being a Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Battin was also a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society (AAS), a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Battin's many honors include the 1972 AIAA Louis W. Hill Space Transportation Award, the 1978 AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight Award, the 1989 AIAA von Kármán Lectureship in Astronautics, the 2002 AIAA Aerospace Guidance, Navigation and Control Award, and the 1996 AAS Dirk Brouwer Award.

1951

Battin began his career in 1951, serving as the assistant director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Instrumentation Laboratory. Battin left the laboratory in 1956, becoming a senior staff member at Arthur Little Inc., but returned to MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory in 1958. He subsequently became the technical director of the Apollo Mission Development program, as well as associate director of the laboratory. Under Battin's leadership, his team created the analytic and software design of the navigation, guidance and control systems for each of the Apollo spaceflights, making the lunar landing of Apollo 11 possible. In 1973, the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory became the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc., where Battin served as the associate head of the NASA Program Department. After his retirement from Draper in 1987, Battin continued to teach at MIT, where he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics until 2010.

1925

Richard "Dick" Horace Battin (March 3, 1925 – February 8, 2014) was an American engineer, applied mathematician and educator who led the design of the Apollo guidance computer during the Apollo missions during the 1960s.

Battin was born on March 3, 1925, in Atlantic City, New Jersey to Martha Scheu and Horace L. Battin.