Joseph Francis Shea (September 5, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an

American aerospace engineer and NASA manager. After working for Bell

Labs on the radio inertial guidance system of the Titan I

intercontinental ballistic missile, he was hired by NASA in 1961. As

Deputy Director of NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight, and later as

head of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, Shea led NASA to decide in

favor of lunar orbit rendezvous and supporting "all up" testing of the

Saturn V rocket. Deeply involved in the investigation of the 1967

Apollo 1 fire, Shea suffered from stress. He was moved to an

alternative position in Washington and left NASA shortly afterwards.

>From 1968 until 1990 he was a senior manager at Raytheon in Lexington,

Massachusetts, then worked as an adjunct professor of aeronautics and

astronautics at MIT. Shea served as a consultant for NASA on the

redesign of the International Space Station in 1993, but resigned due to

health issues.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1774:

In response to the British Parliament's enactment of the so-

called Intolerable Acts, representatives from twelve of the Thirteen

Colonies convened the First Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in

Philadelphia.

1970:

During the practice session of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza

Circuit, Jochen Rindt was killed and subsequently became motor racing's

only posthumous world champion.

1972:

The Palestinian militant group Black September took hostage

eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic Games in Munich, West

Germany; all of the hostages were killed less than 24 hours later.

2020:

California wildfires: A pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal

party ignited the El Dorado Fire, burning for 71 days and killing one

firefighter.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

penury:

1. (uncountable) Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; (countable)

an instance of this.

2. (countable, now chiefly poetic) Followed by of: a lack of something;

a dearth, a scarcity.

3. (uncountable, obsolete) The quality of being miserly; miserliness,

parsimoniousness, stinginess.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of

politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so

heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting.

Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.  

--John Danforth

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