Nov 29 1977
From The Space Library
NASA held a press briefing on results from HEAO 1, launched 3.5mo ago, described by the project manager Dr. Frank McDonald of GSFC as "probably the largest scientific satellite" flown by the U.S. On hand for the briefing were Dr. Noel Hinners, associate administrator for space sciences; Dr. McDonald and Dr. Elihu Boldt from GSFC; Dr. Herbert Friedman of NRL, principal investigator on the large x-ray survey;. Dr. Gordon Garmire of CalTech, who with Dr. Boldt had worked on the cosmic ray experiment; Dr. Hale Bradt of MIT, principal investigator for the scanning-modulation collimator; and Dr. Hale Peterson of the Univ. of Calif. San Diego, principal investigator for the low energy gamma-ray experiment. The scientists gave the press brief statements of their results and responded to questions. (Text, Nov 29/77)
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