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Article #6958Re: NASA Criticism and other...PART II
From: Steinn Sigurdsson
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:50
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:50
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On the question of NASA spin-offs, I seem to recall that CCDs were originally developed at JPL in the 70's - can someone confirm/deny this - have I fallen victim to JPLs superb PR machine :-) (and can we say Sony successfully transferred the technology PROMPTLY to the benefit of all mankind?) | Steinn Sigurdsson |I saw two shooting stars last night | | Lick Observatory |I wished on them but they were only satellites | | steinly@lick.ucsc.edu |Is it wrong to wish on space hardware? | | "standard disclaimer" |I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care - B.B. 1983 |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!hal.com!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!darkstar!steinly From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: NASA Criticism and other...PART II Message-ID: <STEINLY.93Jan24145026@topaz.ucsc.edu> Date: 24 Jan 93 22:50:26 GMT References: <1993Jan24.003103.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> Organization: Lick Observatory/UCO Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu In-reply-to: shanleyl@ducvax.auburn.edu's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:31:03 GMT