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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 name=BGobit>{{Cite webnews |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 |websitework=www.bostonglobe.com[[The Boston Globe]]}}</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 |websitename=www.bostonglobe.com}}<BGobit/ref>

== Career ==

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== Awards ==

Hoag received the Col. Thomas L. Thurlow Award in 1969 from the Institute of Navigation, the NASA Public Service Award in 1969, the Navy Certificate of Merit in 1970, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautic's Louis W, Hill Space Transportation Award in 1972 along with [[Richard Battin|Dick Battin]].<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 |access-date=21 September 2024}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=Septemberr 2024}}

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