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Watching the World's Weather, by W.J. Burroughs (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Weather Cycles: Real or Imaginary, by W.J. Burroughs (Cambridge University Press, 1992).


Communications section

There was so much material for this section that the only way to make sense of it was to put it all together into one big pot, to arrange it chronologically, and to construct a series of calendars for the years in which I was interested. I also put the dates of major importance for world events and other developments in the space program on the same calendars. This gave me a good feel for what was happening when, and highlighted some nice ironies between the Telstar and Syncom programs that I would otherwise have missed.

Primary source material came from AT&T, the Hughes Aircraft Company, John Rubel, Bob Roney, the NAS, NASA, and the American Heritage Center.

Interviewees were John Pierce, Harold Rosen, Tom Hudspeth, Bob Roney, Robert Davis.

AT&T's highly professional archive yielded masses of information about Telstar and some, though to a lesser extent, about Echo.

The HAC archives give a good sense of the work that Harold Rosen and Don Williams et al. did, as well as demonstrating the company's internal wrangles and its lobbying of NASA and the DoD.

Bob Roney had personal papers that supplemented the more extensive records from the HAC archive.

John Rubel's papers cover the ground from the perspective of the Office of Defense Research & Engineering. The view from this office is not always the same as that from other departments of the DoD.

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