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... had applied for a job with what is known as the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. This is not the USGS U.S. Geological Survey . This is the Coast and Geodetic Survey, which ... know, but a very, very nice guy, very brilliant. The reason I say he’s brilliant, he’s probably the only person I’ve ever met that could go sit in the ... combination?” He said, “You’ve got one and I’ve got one, and that’s all that’s needed right now.” We locked them out. I came to work the next day ...

... although my family was not in the oil business—my dad actually worked for the U.S. government, Corps of Engineers, there in Tulsa—many, many of our friends and the parents ... fiction; never going to come about. Suddenly the Russians did their Sputnik thing and the U.S. got interested, and then President John F. Kennedy announced the human space program, and it ... fire. So we’d go, “Five, four, three, two, one,” imitates noise , and that’s it; it’s a ten-millisecond thing. The guy said, “It didn’t work.” “Hell, yeah, it ...

... City, Utah in 1953. Then the next year you began service, active service, with the U.S. Navy as an aviator. Tell us how these beginnings evolved into you becoming interested in ... important single piece of equipment they could send up there was a seismometer, because that’s how we understand the interior of the Earth by detecting earthquake generated seismic waves as ... considerations of that arm. It was built by the Canadians with the agreement through the U.S. State Department, and I was assigned to work on that. So I made a lot ...

... terrestrial source duplicates the unique space radiation environment. The BioSentinel biosensor uses the budding yeast S. cerevisiae to detect and measure double strand breaks (DSBs) that occur in response to ambient ... , the deadline to apply for access to CCAFS is 5 p.m. Feb. 18 for U.S. citizens and Feb. 5 for non-citizens. The deadline to apply for media access to Kennedy is 5 p.m. on March 1 for U.S. citizens and Feb. 22 for non-citizens. All media accreditation requests for Kennedy must be ...

... to destinations well beyond low Earth orbit." NASA's Space Technology program is seeking proposals for solar array system structures from all potential U.S. organizations, including NASA centers and other government agencies ... space spacecraft requiring high power," said Stephen Gaddis, Game Changing Development program manager at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The NASA solicitation will cover two acquisition phases and ...

... and science to catch up to the Russians. Then I started following all of the U.S. activities from a relatively small town in Colorado. Greeley is where I grew up, and ... made computers in the sixties, and they were marketing them. So as part of CSU’s Colorado State University getting RCA computers, some of their people from Denver Colorado drove up ... ’d have a clean slate to start with, and planning—overnight is when the crew’s activity were planned, and the procedures, if any new procedures were needed, were developed. '''Wright ...

... out good. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' What sort of interaction did you have with people from USGS U.S. Geological Survey or Bellcom Inc. ? '''Bennett:''' USGS was some of the scientist groups and everything ... to use it?” Laughter And he did, and he tracked it beautifully. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' He’s a character. '''Bennett:''' Yes, he is. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' You mentioned that you returned back to ...

... a lot of anti-technology sentiment. We had the war going in Vietnam, and the U.S. in some eyes was looked upon as technologically superior, and using that technology for a ... the commander. Bill William R. Pogue was a pilot who used to fly with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, extremely competent guy who'd never get sick on the ground, and ... , because the guys down there because of the politics and all that, let's not stir the hornet's nest. We'll just press on and do the mission and tell them when ...

... so well that NASA decided—well, it wasn't NASA again, it was the U.S. Geological Survey. U.S. Geological Survey thought they wanted to put up a remote-sensing satellite, an Earth ... resource? How do we protect the U.S. fishermen? How do we manage the relationships internationally with some of the people who like to fish in U.S. waters? The richest waters, as far ... . A tough business. We've fished out the North Atlantic, not just due to U.S. fisheries. It's very sad what has happened there with respect to swordfish and a few other ...

... . White House and State Dept. officials denied report by French newspaper Paris-Presse that U.S. and U.S.S.R. negotiators had signed cooperative agreement to send team of Russians and Americans to the ... % said U.S. would probably exceed U.S.S.R. in space achievements by 1970, while 40% said U.S. would approximately equal U.S.S.R. by 1970. 45% said prime objective of U.S. in space was to exceed U.S.S.R ...

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