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METOP satellite series, 166
Midwest Research Institute, 389, 390, 391, 415; and “Economic Impact of Stimulated Technological Activity,”
408-14; and “Economic Impact and Technological Progress of NASA Research and Development
Expenditures,” 427-30
Miernyk, William, 388
Mignogno, Michael, 375, 378
Minnow, Newton, 60-61, 76
Molniya (“Lightning”), 5
Morgan, John, and Earth resource satellites, 224-25
Morrill, William, 133
Motorola Corp., and ACTS, 145-47
Mueller, George E., 388; and Earth resources survey program, 248-50, 250-52, 253-56
Mundt, Karl, 169
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NASA Alumni League, 391; and “The Economic Effects of a Space Station,” 450-51
National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), 389, 391
National Academy of Sciences, and “Federal Research and Development for Satellite Communications,” 135-45
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), 2, 397
National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, 72-76, 392, 397
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2, 4, 7; and ACTS, 9, 145-47; and “Administrative and
Regulatory Problems Relating to the Authorization of Commercially Operable Space Communications
Systems,” 61-64; and AT&T, 45-60; and “Basic Agreement Between U.S. Department of Commerce and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Concerning Operational Meteorological Satellite Systems,”
206-11; and “Civil Operational Remote Sensing,” 294-95; and “Commercial Space Industry in the Year 2000,”
473-80; and “Commercial Use of Space,” 543-46; and “Convergence of U.S.-Polar-orbiting Operational
Environmental Satellite Systems,” 165, 221-23; and “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Selected Technology Utilization
Office Programs,” 555-58; and “Crop Forecasting by Satellite,” 272-75; and “Earth Information from Space by
Remote Sensing,” 282-93; and Earth resource satellites, 167-76; and “Earth Resources Survey Program,”
248-50, 250-52, 253-56; and “Earth’s Resources to be Studied from Space,” 244-46; and “The Economic Effects
of a Space Station,” 450-51; and “The Economic Impact of the Space Program,” 451-55; and “Economic
Impact of Stimulated Technological Activity,” 408-14; and Eisenhower, 39-41; and “Economic Impact and
Technological Progress of NASA Research and Development Expenditures,” 427-30; and “Electrophoresis
Operations in Space,” 541-43; and “Establishment of Domestic Communications-Satellite Facilities by Non-
Governmental Entities,” 120-32; and EOS, 163, 396; and “An Exploration of Benefits from NASA ‘Spinoff,’”
559-63; and “FCC Relation to Space Communication,” 42-45; and “Feasibility Study of Commercial Space
Manufacturing,” 504-17; and “Feasibility Study of Commercial Space Manufacturing: Production of
Pharmaceuticals,” 534-39; and “Federal Research and Development for Satellite Communications,” 135-45;
and “Foreign Policy Issues Regarding Earth Resource Surveying by Satellite,” 262-69; and F.R. Kappel, 45-60;
and “A Global System of Satellite Communications,” 99-108; and Hughes “Commercial Satellite
Communication Project,” 31-35; and “Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984,” 329-44; and
“Landsat Remote Sensing Policy,” 345-47; and “Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992,” 173-75, 352-68; and
Landsat, 133, 168-73; and “Landsat Remote Sensing Strategy,” 372-75; and Large Area Crop Inventory
Experiment (LACIE), 170; and “Long-Term Prospects for Developments in Space,” 480-88; and “Management
Plan for the Landsat Program,” 347-52; and “Meeting at the U.S. Geological Survey . . . Regarding Remote
Sensing and South America,” 240-44; and Meteorological Satellites, 156-63; and “Mission Oriented R&D and
the Advancement of Technology,” 432-45; and “NASA Policy to Enhance Commercial Investment in Space,”
488-98; and “NASA Report May Overstate the Economic Benefits of Research and Development Spending,”
430-32; and “NASA Tech Brief Program,” 553-55; and “NASA Technology Transfer: Report of the Technology
Transfer Team,” 574-77; and National Aeronautics and Space Act, 72-76, 392; and National Aeronautics and
Space Council, 65-67, 76-77; and National Performance Review, 164-65, 216-21; and “National Plan for a
Common System of Meteorological Observation Satellites,” 204-06; and “National Space Policy” (1996),
463-73; and Newton Minnow, 60-61, 76; and Nimbus Weather Satellite, 159-60, 168; and NOAA, 163-67; and
“Operational Requirements for Global Resource Surveys by Earth-Orbital Satellites,” 246-48; and “Planning
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