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Harrison Allen Storms, Jr. was an American aeronautical engineer at North American Aviation who managed the design and construction of the Apollo Command/Service Module. He also oversaw North American's work on the S-II second stage of the Saturn V rocket. He is sometimes called "the father of Apollo" within North American Aviation.
Storms was reassigned in 1967 following the Apollo 1 fire, which killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee on the 27th of January 1967. NASA Administrator James Webb demanded the resignation of either Storms or Lee Atwood. Atwood chose to reassign Storms rather than resign himself.
The Apollo 1 fire occurred on the 27th of January 1967 at Cape Kennedy during a launch rehearsal, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. CSM-012, the spacecraft involved, had accumulated problems with electrical wiring and ethylene glycol plumbing under Storms' management at North American Aviation. NASA's subsequent criticism of North American led directly to Storms' removal.
Storms grew up in Wilmette on Chicago's North Shore, attended Northwestern University where he graduated at the top of his class, and earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering there. He then studied at the California Institute of Technology for a second master's degree in aeronautical engineering under Theodore von Kármán. He joined North American Aviation and in 1955 led the company's successful bid for the X-15 airplane contract.
Screenwriter Mike Gray profiled Storms in the 1992 book Angle of Attack. Publishers Weekly described it as a swaggering portrait of NASA's Apollo project. The book was published in the same year Storms died.
In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Storms was played by actor James Rebhorn. He also appears in Stephen Baxter's alternate history novel Voyage, where the character J. K. Lee is described as an amalgam of Storms and Tom Kelly, and Storms himself appears as a friend of that character.