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'''David Garratt Hoag''' (October 11, 1925 – January 19, 2015) was an American aeronautical [[engineer]] who was Director of the [[Apollo Program]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]'s Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the [[Charles Stark Draper Laboratory]]. The Program was responsible for the Apollo Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control Systems on the Apollo command module and the lunar landing spacecrafts..<ref>{{Cite web |last=Craven |first=Jasper |title=David Hoag, 89; developed systems for Apollo missions |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/25/david-hoag-medway-directed-guidance-system-development-for-apollo-missions/y8qQA5XHuBqDbRCxGv6mgK/story.html |website=www.bostonglobe.com}}</ref>. The Guidance and Navigation system included an inertial measurement unit, optical alignment telescope and space sextant, and [[Apollo guidance computer]], which was used during the [[Apollo missions]] <ref>{{Cite book |url=https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24773/memorial-tributes-volume-21 |title=Memorial Tributes: Volume 21 |date=26 September 2017 |publisher=National Academies Press |isbn=978-0-309-45928-0 |page=158 |access-date=21 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="NAE">{{Cite web |title=Hoag, David G. |url=https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/person/hoag-david-g.-8925?query=Hoag&resultIndex=0 |website=MIT Museum|access-date=21 September 2024}}</ref>.

== Early life and education ==

Hoag was born in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] on October 11, 1925 to Helen Garratt and Alden Hoag. After graduating from the [[Chapel Hill - Chauncy Hall School|Chauncy Hall School]] in Boston, he joined the Navy. While in the military, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's degree in electrical communications and later a masters in aeronautical engineering instrumentation<ref>{{Cite web |last=Craven |first=Jasper |title=David Hoag, 89; developed systems for Apollo missions |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/25/david-hoag-medway-directed-guidance-system-development-for-apollo-missions/y8qQA5XHuBqDbRCxGv6mgK/story.html |website=www.bostonglobe.com}}</ref>.

== Career ==

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