'God of aerospace engineering': Hans Mark, former UT chancellor who fled Nazis, dies at 92
Aerospace engineer Hans Mark, a former University of Texas System chancellor who escaped the Nazis as a boy and grew up to help put a man on the moon, died Saturday morning.
Mark was 92. He died at Westminster senior home in Austin and had suffered from progressive dementia.
A native of Germany who spent his childhood in Austria, Mark served as a longtime aerospace engineering professor at UT, as well as secretary of the Air Force and deputy administrator of NASA. He worked in Mission Control during the first moon landing and persuaded President Ronald Reagan to establish the space station program.
Mark also helped turn UT and the entire city of Austin into research powerhouses.
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/12/19/hans-mark-obituary-ut-system-chancellor-austin-university-texas-aerospace-nasa-moon-landing/8962158002/
