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Ukrainian boy was catching sweets from American planes during the Berlin Airlift in 1948. Inspired by those huge planes, he became an airspace engineer, worked for NASA on Apollo program. As Chief Scientist of US Airforce, he was credited with initiation of GPS: Michael Yarymovych
One of the engineers laying the foundation of the Apollo systems in 1962 was Michael Yarymovych, born Mikhail Yarymovych in pre-WWII Ukraine. In his brief interview in 2014 with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) after receiving the Distinguished Service award for “60 years of dedicated service to IAS, ARS, AIAA, and IAF, […]
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