| LC control no. | n 81111220 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Beggs, James M., 1926-2020 |
| Variant(s) | Beggs, James Montgomery, 1926-2020 Beggs, James, 1926-2020 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000023788647 77642550 Q2915335 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1926-01-09 |
| Death date | 2020-04-23 |
| Place of birth | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Bethesda (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Space shuttles Outer space--Exploration Transportation |
| Affiliation | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration United States. Department of Transportation |
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| Found in | U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Nominations--NASA, 1981 (subj.) t.p. (James Montgomery Beggs) p. 3 (b. 1/9/26, Pittsburgh, Pa.) Washington Post website, article dated April 26, 2020, viewed May 4, 2020 (Former NASA administrator James M. Beggs, who led the agency during the early years of the space shuttle program and resigned after the Challenger disaster killed seven astronauts in 1986, died Thursday [April 23, 2020] at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. He was 94) OCLC database, 22 Aug. 2020 (access points: Beggs, James Montgomery, Beggs, 1926-2020 James M., 1926- , Beggs, James M.; usage: James M. Beggs, James Beggs) New York times, Apr. 29, 2020 (James Beggs; born James Montgomery Beggs Jan. 9, 1926 in Pittsburgh [Pa.], died Apr. 23 in Bethesda, Md., aged 94; the NASA chief who oversaw more than 20 successful space shuttle launches and who was on leave during the fatal Challenger explosion in 1986; before joining NASA, Mr. Beggs was the under-secretary of transportation from 1969 to 1973 for President[s] Lyndon B. Johnson [& Richard M. Nixon]) |
| Associated language | eng |
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