The Challenge of Spaceflight: Communication and Navigation Satellites

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

From the original press release:

The role of communication and navigation satellites in the nation's space program will be discussed by leading scientists and engineers on the WNYC Challenge of Space Flight series, Sunday, December 24, from 3:00 to 3:55

Irwin Hersey, Editor of Astronautics and Director of Publications for the American Rocket Society will have as his guests: Sidney Sternberg, Chief Engineer on the Tiros Weather Satellite Project for the Astro-Electronic Divisions of RCA; F.W. Reichelderfer, Chief, U.S. Weather Bureau, Washington, D.C.; John R. Pierce, Director of Research, Bell Laboratories; Arthur R. Kantrowitz, Director, Avco Everett Research Lab; James E. Webb, Administrator NASA; Arthur Clark, science writer; Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administator, NASA; and F.J. Krieger, Physics Dept., Rand Corporation.

The Challenge of Space Flight was produced by Harold K. Halpern and Bob Costigan.


WNYC archives id: 46415

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