File:James Fletcher, official NASA portrait.jpg

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Dr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Fletcher" class="extiw" title="w:James C. Fletcher">James C. Fletcher</a> served as NASA Administrator from April 27, 1971, to May 1, 1977, and from May 12, 1986, to April 8, 1989. During his first administration at NASA, Dr. Fletcher was responsible for beginning the Shuttle effort, as well as the Viking program that sent landers to Mars. He oversaw the Skylab missions and Viking probes and approved the Voyager space probe, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. During his second tenure, he presided over the effort to recover from the Challenger accident. Dr. Fletcher died in December 1991 of lung cancer.

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current08:00, 6 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 08:00, 6 January 20172,208 × 2,806 (6.99 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)<p>Dr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Fletcher" class="extiw" title="w:James C. Fletcher">James C. Fletcher</a> served as NASA Administrator from April 27, 1971, to May 1, 1977, and from May 12, 1986, to April 8, 1989. During his first administration at NASA, Dr. Fletcher was responsible for beginning the Shuttle effort, as well as the Viking program that sent landers to Mars. He oversaw the Skylab missions and Viking probes and approved the Voyager space probe, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. During his second tenure, he presided over the effort to recover from the Challenger accident. Dr. Fletcher died in December 1991 of lung cancer. </p>
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