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- Wendell F. Moore was born on March 6, 1918 in Canton, Ohio, USA. He died on May 29, 1969.
- For his rocket belt inventions he received the Aerospace Pioneer Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1964. In 1965, he was presented with the John Price Weatherill Medal from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia.
- Inventor, engineer and rocket propulsion innovator whom made historic contributions to aerospace technology while working for Bell Aerosystems Corporation of Niagara Falls, New York.
- Designed and built the world's first Astronaut Maneuvering Unit in 1960, a full year before the first manned Mercury flight into space by Alan Shepard. He called it the "Zero Gravity Maneuvering Unit" or "Zero-g Belt", which would permit occupants of manned space vehicles to have a means of maneuvering when they leave their spacecraft for inspection, repair or assembly tasks.
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