Brooks Moore, MSFC charter member, dies at 97

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A charter member of the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) when it was created in 1960, Brooks Moore, has died at 97.

Moore was part of the team at Marshall that worked under Doctor Wernher von Braun to design and develop the Saturn V moon rocket. Before that, he  directed the design of control systems for army missiles like the “Redstone,” “Jupiter” and “Pershing.”

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The NASA veteran was a 1948 graduate of Auburn University, and for many years was a docent at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. He was inducted into the Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame in 1997.

At Marshall, he was involved with Skylab, the world’s first space station, and later, among other projects, he helped develop the Hubble Space Telescope.

But, the Saturn V was the big one – that and working with the team at Marshall to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s promise that America would put a man on the moon.

Below, you can see some footage of Moore in our documentary about Apollo 11 that aired in 2019.

News 19’s own Steve Johnson was part of a series of oral history interviews for NASA and sat down with Moore to talk about his background, his career at MSFC and with NASA and more at length. You can read that interview here.

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