The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low.

Jurek (Marketing the Moon, coauthor), an Air & Space magazine contributor, gives a now obscure, yet vital, player in America's space program his due in this solid biography. Low (1926-1984), who immigrated to the U.S. from Austria in 1940, joined NASA precursor NACA (the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) in 1949 as an aeronautical research scientist, and transferred to NASA upon its formation nine years later. While according the most attention to Low's professional achievements - which also included being named deputy NASA administrator in December 1969 - Jurek takes care to humanize his subject, with appealing descriptions of Low's devotion to his wife and to their five children. [Extracted from the article]