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Abraham "Abe" Silverstein^[2] (September 15, &#;&#; June 1, ) was an American engineer who played an important part in the United States space program.

He was a longtime manager at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). He was instrumental in the planning of the Apollo, Ranger, Mariner, Surveyor, and Voyager missions,^[2] and named the Apollo program after the Greek and Roman God.^[3]

Biography

Born into a Jewish family in Terre Haute, Indiana to Joseph and Eva Silverstein, Silverstein earned a B.S.

in mechanical engineering () and a Master of Engineering () from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in his hometown.^[4][5]

NASA career

He was hired by NASA's predecessor, NACA, in at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory as an aerodynamicist to work on the design of the Altitude Wind Tunnel to be built in Clevela