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SUMMARY:Infrared Astronomy at NASA Ames Research Centre in the late 1980s\
 , KAO to SOFIA - Paul Mulvaney
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CONTACT:Hannah Sanderson
DESCRIPTION:California’s Silicon Valley was a ferment of technology and 
 pure research in this period\, and\nthe epicentre of this development was 
 the Ames Research Center\, NASA’s premier base facility.\nUnder the dire
 ction of people like Gerard Kuiper and Carlton Gillespie\, and despite pol
 itical resistance\, NASA developed and managed a small fleet of airborne a
 stronomical instruments\ncapable of laying the groundwork for much of mode
 rn astronomy. The budgetary\, political\, and \ntechnological challenges o
 f the two major platform programs\, the Kuiper Airborne Observatory and th
 e Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will be discussed\, emp
 hasizing the major discoveries of the KAO team and the subsequent developm
 ent of the 747-based SOFIA. \nThe talk will be followed by refreshments ou
 tside the lecture theatre.\nThe talk will be at 7:30pm at the usual locati
 on of Wolfson lecture theatre in the Department of Chemistry. The entrance
  is the opposite side of the building to Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture thea
 tre and is opposite the car park- shown by the red arrow on the map. "http
 s://map.cam.ac.uk/Department+of+Chemistry#52.197964\,0.125242\,18":UR\nTic
 kets are £2 (free for members) and annual membership (£7) and life membe
 rship (£12) can also be purchased at the event - please bring cash.\n\n
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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