Lockheed Martin / Stanford Physics / Aero-Astro / Fairbank / Lockheed Missiles & Space Company / William Fairbank / /
Country
United States / Saudi Arabia / /
Event
Funding / Business Partnership / /
Facility
International Space Sciences Institute / Vandenberg Air Force Base / NASA Headquarters / /
IndustryTerm
polar-orbiting satellite / dozen new technologies / control systems / manufacturing techniques / cuttingedge technologies / /
Organization
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics / NASA’s office of Space Sciences / International Space Sciences Institute / American Physical Society / GP-B Mission Operations Center / GP-B Flight Mission / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / Science Instrument Assembly / Stanford / /
Person
Marshall Space / Leonard Schiff / Gaylord Green / Hans Thirring / Bob Cannon / Josef Lense / Nancy Roman / Brad Parkinson / George Pugh / Francis Everitt / Dan DeBra / John Turneaure / Bill Fairbank / /
Position
King / Program Manager / chairman / Professor / Principal Investigator / Program Advisor / patent clerk / low-temperature physicist / first U. S. woman astronaut / an aerospace CEO / General / GP-B Program Manager / /
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