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Jakob van Zyl, key Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, dies

| August 27, 2020 4:06 PM

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Jakob van Zyl, an engineer who held crucial positions at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was involved in numerous space exploration missions over decades, has died. He was 63.

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