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The Apollo Era: Working at Marshall in the Sixties

September 1, 2008 // by Glenn A. Robinson, Jr.

By Glenn A. Robinson, Jr. I graduated in 1963 with a degree in aerospace engineering from North Carolina State University and immediately went to work at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

Dedicated in May 1964, the new Space Flight Operations Facility used state-of-the-art equipment for mission operations and communications with JPL’s unmanned spacecraft. One of the first missions to use the facility was Ranger 7.

Early Lunar Missions: A Memoir

September 1, 2008 // by J.D. Burke

By J.D. Burke When the world changed with Sputnik on October 4, 1957, we at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) were jubilant.

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