George Edwin Mueller was Associate Administrator of the NASA Office of Manned Space Flight from September 1963 until December 1969. George Mueller was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 16, 1918. George Mueller, a coolly decisive, hard-driving engineer, scientist and administrator who was given much of the credit for enabling NASA to meet President John F. Kennedy’s manned moon landing timetable, as well as for initiating the Skylab and space shuttle programs. Trained as an electrical engineer, with a B.S. from the Missouri School of Mines (1939) and M.S. from Purdue (1940), Mueller served as a researcher at Bell Telephone Laboratories during World War II.  After the war he taught at Ohio State University, while completing his Ph.D. in physics (1951).  By the mid-1950s he was consulting with major aerospace companies and quickly rose to management positions of space programs at the Space Technology Laboratories (STL), a division of TRW, Inc.  He was serving as Vice President, Research and Development, for STL when NASA hired him in 1963.  In 1969, after the success of Apollo 11, Mueller returned to industry where he had a long and distinguished career.  He was also active in, and served as a leader in, a number of professional societies.  His many awards and honors include three NASA Distinguished Service Medals and the National Medal of Science (1970).