http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/publications/reports/yearbooks/year2004/obituaries/william-pickering/ A seminal figure of the age of space, New Zealand-born William Hayward Pickering was internationally known for his significant contributions to the founding of the space age, and for the first robotic explorations of the Moon, Venus and Mars. William Pickering was a former director of the world-famous JetContinue Reading