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A prominent engineering administrator in the American space program. Buckley joined the Langley facility
of NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) in 1930 after earning his
B.S. in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He became chief of the instrument
research division in 1943 and was responsible for instrumentation at Wallops Island
and at the Flight Research Center at Edwards, California. In 1959 he became assistant director for
spaceflight operations at NASA Headquarters. Two years later, his title changed
to director for tracking and data acquisition, and from 1962 to 1968 he was associate administrator for
tracking and data acquisition. He retired in 1969 as special assistant to Administrator James Webb.
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