Arthur L. Levine

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in Cleveland, the agency that in 1958 became NASA. His first job was recruiting astronauts and he hired Neil Armstrong and John Glenn. In 1961, he and his family relocated to New York where he became the first administrative head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) which was established by Dr. Robert Jastrow. Together they recruited the physicists whose job it was to get man to the moon. After his successful career in NASA he left to become a full professor of Public Administration at Baruch College of the City University of New York and stayed there until his retirement.

Dr. Levine is survived by his wife, Judith Ludwig Levine and his former wife Israela Tick, with whom he had two children, David L. Levine and Karen Weitzner and his grandchildren, Andrew Weitzner, Rachel Levine (and her husband Bill Cohen) Benjamin Levine, Laura Weitzner, Brinna Ludwig, Zachary Ludwig, Miriam Ludwig, Annie Ludwig and Max Ludwig.

In a note to David and Karen he wrote, "Please do not be sad. I have had a long and wonderful life and wish you along with my grandchildren good health and happiness."