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Frank Kelly, EROS Director
Dr. Frank P. Kelly has been selected to serve as the Center Director and USGS Space Policy Advisor for the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, S.D....
Secretary Salazar Charts Future for Landsat Satellite Program
Secretary Salazar visits the Ball Aerospace facility in Boulder, CO. This company produces components to the Landsat satellite series. The Secretary is shown here with Ball Aerospace President and CEO Dave Taylor. ...
Secretary Salazar Charts Future for Landsat Satellite Program
Landsat satellites capture data about the Earth's surface that no other private or public source can provide. This unique data has become vital to agricultural, water management, disaster response, scientific, and national security uses, providing hundreds of millions of dollars in estimated value t...
Secretary Salazar Charts Future for Landsat Satellite Program
The Secretary learns about Ball's Landsat technology from Program Manager of the NPOESS Prep Project Scott Tennant....
Secretary Salazar Charts Future for Landsat Satellite Program
Taylor, Tennant, Secretary Salazar, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Anne Castle, and U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt tour the Ball Aerospace facility....
Secretary Salazar Charts Future for Landsat Satellite Program
Castle, McNutt, Salazar, and Taylor meet inside the Ball Aerospace facility....
Secretary Salazar Charts Future for Landsat Satellite Program
"As our future scientists, it is important that these students understand the Department's role in space-based science and how they can make a positive impact on the Colorado economy by pursuing high tech jobs," said Secretary Salazar. "I applaud schools like Skyline for providing the resources and ...
Neil Armstrong on Mule
Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong piloting a mule in the Grand Canyon, Ariz., March 1964....
Crater Creation
Blasting craters for a new section of the Cinder Lakes outside Flagstaff, Ariz.(July 1968). USGS Astrogeology constructed a mockup of a section of the moon's Sea of Tranquillity in a cinder field to aid with training and time-and-motion studies....
Grover
Grover was built in just four months in 1971 by the USGS Astrogeology Research Program (called the Branch of Astrogeology at the time) and used to training Apollo 15-17 astronauts at the Cinder Lakes training ground near Flagstaff, in California's Mojave Desert, and in the Rio Grande gorge near Taos... |