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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
MANNEDSPACEC
II/IIICENTE
Hous'tor,
,. Texas
483-5111 December 17, 1970
MSC 70-133
HOUSTON, TEY_S---R. Bryan Erb, former manager of Lunar Receiving
Laboratory (LRL), has been named to the position of Manager of the
Applications Office at MSC's Earth Observation Division.
The promotion to the newly established office includes responsibility
for the development and application of remote sensing techniques and
direction of the sensing program at the Houston test site.
Prior to his new assi=_nment, Erb served both as assistant manager
and manager of the LRL. He held those positions during the historic
Apollo 11 and 12 missions. He was responsible for the operation of the
laboratory in the functions of crew quarantine, biological containment
and scientific testing of returned lunar samples.
Erb entered NASA in May_ 1959 as an aerospace technologist. His
early assignments included assessment of heating on the Mercury spacecraft.
He also studied thermal protection and research on spacecraft during
the Gemini and Apollo pro,rams.
Special honors to Erb include the Athlone and Sloane Fellowships.
He is a member of the Amezican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
and the Ontario_ Canada Pzofessional Engineers.
Frb's education includes degrees from the University of Alberta_
Edmonton_ Canada; from th_ College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, England
and from the Massachusett_ Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
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