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Burton Irving Edelson was an American engineer with an involvement from the early 60s through the end of the century is space science and applications.

Professional Life

Awards He was awarded the Wilbur Cross Medal by Yale University in 1984 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Cross_Medal ) He was awarded posthumously the Arthur C Clarke Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in July 2015 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Launch of the Hubble Telescope.

Personal Live

Burton Edelson was born in NYC, the first of two sons of Samuel and Margaret Edelson. His family moved to East Lansing MI. He won a commission in the US Naval Academy and graduated in 1948. More School...

He married Betty Francis Good of Baltimore and Havre de Grade MD in. They lived in Washington DC from 1960-65, London England from 1965-67, and Chevy Chase MD for the rest of his life. He had three boys: Stephen Edelson, John Edelson, and Daniel Edelson. He died January 6th, 2002. He was survived by his wife Betty Good Edelson (1934-2014).

Sources http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/14/us/burton-i-edelson-dies-at-75-nasa-space-science-leader.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Cross_Medal Burton I Edelson, Oral History, Privately Published