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| Born | January 9, 1928 Santa Ana, California, U.S. |
| Died | December 20, 2016 (aged 88) La Crescenta, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Caltech |
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Raymond L. Heacock (January 9, 1928 – December 20, 2016) was an American engineer who spent his career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he worked on the Ranger program[1] in the 1960s and on the Voyager program in the 1970s and 1980s.[2][3][4] A Caltech engineering graduate, he was the winner of the James Watt International Medal for 1979.[5]
- ^ Caidin, Martin (1963). The moon: new world for men. Bobbs-Merrill. p. 336. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
- ^ Swift, David W. (1997). Voyager tales: personal views of the grand tour. AIAA. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-1-56347-252-7. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
- ^ Tomayko, James E. (August 3, 1987). Computers in spaceflight: the NASA experience. CRC Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-8247-2268-5. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
- ^ Kluger, Jeffrey (July 10, 2001). Moon hunters: NASA's remarkable expeditions to the ends of the solar system. Simon and Schuster. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-0-684-86559-1. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
- ^ Netburn, Deborah (December 23, 2016). "Raymond Heacock, JPL engineer who worked on Voyager mission, dies at 88". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 26, 2016.