"SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN, Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age"
Copyright:Copernicus/Springer Verlag (New York)
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Book description.
Bob Danchik* (Transit's penultimate project manager), Bill Guier* (physics), George Weiffenbach* (physics), Lee Pryor*
(software development and Transit's last project manager), Carl Bostrom* (physics and later the director of APL), Henry Elliott* (antennas),
Lee Dubois* (command, control, and tracking), Charles Pollow* (assistant program manager), Laurence Rueger* (time and frequency systems),
Tom Stansill* (receivers), Russ Bauer* (software), Charles Bitterli* (software), Harold Black* (physics/orbital mechanics), Ben Elder* (memory designer),
Eugene Kylie* (receivers), Barry Oakes* (rf systems), Charles Owen* (mechanical design), Henry Riblet* (antenna design on Transit), Ed Westerfield*
(receiver design), John O'Keefe (satellite geodesist), Gary Weir (naval historian), Commander William Craft (commander and director of seamanship at
the U.S. Naval Academy, in Annapolis), Brad Parkinson (GPS project manager), Group Captain David Broughton (director of the Royal illstitute of Navigation),
and Dave Smith (satellite geodesist, currently at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland).
An asterisk denotes that an individual was a member of the Transit team.
Some of the above were interviewed in great depth and over many hours, weeks, and in the case of Guier and Weiffenbach, months; a very few spoke to me for as little as half an hour.
Chapter five: Polaris and Transit
Information about Polaris (pp.49 and 51-53), its purpose and development emerged during many hours of interviews with members of the Transit team.
Books that provided background for chapter five include The Polaris System: Development: Bureaucratic and Programmatic Success in Government, by Harvey M. Sapolsky (Harvard University Press, 1972); Forged in War: The Naval Industrial Complex and American Submarine Construction, 1940-1961, by Gary Weir (The Naval Historical Center, 1993).
The potted history of navigation in this chapter (pages 50 and 51) draws on interviews with Commander William Craft and Group Captain David
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