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William E. "Bill" Brunk (born 1928) was an American astronomer and NASA administrator. He was educated at high school in Cleveland, Ohio and attended the local Case Institute of Technology in 1948, gaining a B.S. in 1952 and an M.S. in Astronomy in 1954. He worked as a research scientist and aeronaut in the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory from 1954 until 1958, before moving to the NASA Lewis Research Center as an aerospace research engineer, working there from 1958 to 1964. He retired from NASA in 1985.