#Jakob van Zyl, key Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, dies
“#Jakob van Zyl, key Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, dies” 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. Van Zyl, who retired in 2019 after a 33-year career, suffered a heart attack on Monday and…