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Judith Love Cohen

American aerospace engineer

1933 – 2016aged 82

Judith Love Cohen worked as an electrical engineer on the Minuteman missile, the Hubble Space Telescope's ground station, and the Apollo program's Abort-Guidance System -- the system credited with helping bring the crew of Apollo 13 home safely after their spacecraft was crippled. She later founded a children's publishing company and was the mother of engineer Neil Siegel and actor-musician Jack Black.

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