William Pickering (April 2, 1796 – 1854), British publisher and bookseller (biography: Keynes, Geoffrey Kt. William Pickering Publisher. New York: Burt Franklin, 1969) [1] (http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/bijou/youngcd/pick.html)
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William Hayward Pickering was born in Roxburgh Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington in 1910.
Pickering was the Lab Director; he had to bring these two geniuses together for a common goal in an incredibly short time frame, while breathing down their necks was the government, the Pentagon and the patriot demands of the American people.
Pickering retired from JPL in 1976 at the age of 66.
WilliamPickering, who has died from pneumonia aged 94, was an outstanding rocket scientist and a remarkable individual, with probably the best claim to the title of the father of the American space programme.
Pickering was born in Mount Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand, but his mother died when he was six, and he went to live with his grandparents at Havelock at the northern tip of South Island.
Pickering said in a lecture in 1993 that the launch of Sputnik should not have come as such a surprise, as both the Soviet and US governments had announced their intentions of experimenting with satellites.
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