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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
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Subject: Re: NASA Installations, part 2
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Date: 5 May 88 18:11:11 GMT
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In article <11974@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> khayo@MATH.ucla.edu (Eric Behr) writes:
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>GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER
>Goddard Space Flight Center (130)
>Greenbelt, MD 20771

>   This NASA field center, 10 miles northeast of Washington,
>D.C., has put together a multitalented spaceflight team --
	Sometimes I wonder......(oops, you didn't hear that ;-)

Actually, from the computer standpoint, they have a deserving but largely
unrecognized project: the Goodyear (now Loral Defense) Massive Parallel
Processor (MPP) which has largely, but independently been eclipsed by the
Connection Machine.  Remember, flight projects are everything.
Computing is a secondary technology.

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>JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
>Jet Propulsion Laboratory (180-205)
			    ^^^^^^^ `Engineering'/Admin Bldg, PIO.
>4800 Oak Grove Drive
>Pasadena, CA 91109

>   NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is located near
>Pasadena, Calif., approximately 20 miles northeast of Los
>Angeles.
>   JPL, occupying 177 acres of land, is a government-owned
>facility staffed by the California Institute of Technology.

The shortest description for perhaps one of the best Centers!
Well almost.  A better description (if you read RISKS) in
"Legends of Caltech" is typified in "DEI." Great photo.

>and the Shuttle Imaging Radar
Oh my God!  I should send this back to RSAG!

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>LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER
>Hampton, VA 23665-5225

>   Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., is approximately 100
>miles south of Washington, D.C.  It is situated in the Tidewater
>area of Hampton Roads, between Norfolk and Williamsburg, Va.  The

The shorter distance a Center is from HQ, the more likelihood they
can influence program managers.  Goddard is something of a noteable
exception to this rule.

Another gross generalization from

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