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and “Long-Term Prospects for Developments in Space,” 480-88; and measuring impact of, 387-392; and
“Mission Oriented R&D and the Advancement of Technology,” 432-45; and NASA activities, 386-87; 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 policy, 392-96; and “National Space Policy” (1996), 463-73; and “The President’s
Space Policy and Commercial Space Initiatives to Begin the Next Century,” 455-60; and “Quantifying the
Benefits to the National Economy from Secondary Applications of NASA Technology,” 445-49; and “Proposal
for Enhancing NASA Technology Transfer to Civil Systems,” 546-53; and “Some Major Impacts of the National
Space Program,” 402-407; and “Space Industrialization: An Overview,” 527-33; and “Space Industrialization
Final Report,” 517-27; and stimulation of technology transfer, 396-400; and “Technology Transfer White
Paper,” 563-74; and “U.S. Commercial Space Policy Guidelines,” 460-63
Space Electronics Corp., and Hughes “Commercial Satellite Communication Project,” 31-35
Space Industries, Inc., 498-501
Spaceflight, 11; and “The Space Station,” 11-15
“Space Station, The,” 11-15
Space Services, Inc., 498-501
Space Systems/Loral, 7
Sputnik 1, 2, 26
Stanford Research Institute, 389
State, Department of, 85-89; and “Civil Operational Remote Sensing,” 294-95; and “Convergence of U.S.-Polarorbiting
Operational Environmental Satellite Systems,” 165, 221-23; and “Earth Resources Survey Program,”
248-50, 250-52, 253-56; and “Foreign Policy Issues Regarding Earth Resource Surveying by Satellite,” 262-69;
and “A Global System of Satellite Communications,” 99-108; and “National Space Policy” (1996), 463-73; and
“Planning for a Civil Operational Land Remote Sensing Satellite System,” 296-306; and “Policy Concerning
U.S. Assistance in the Development of Foreign Communications Satellite Capabilities,” 91-95; and “Report of
the United States Delegation . . . on Definitive Arrangements for the International Telecommunications
Satellite Consortium,” 108-20; and “Resolution of Issues Related to Private Sector Transfer of Civil Land
Observing Satellite Activities,” 306-308; and “Transfer of U.S. Communications Satellite Technology,” 96-99;
and “U.S. Assistance in the Early Establishment of Communications Satellite Service,” 95-96; and “White Paper
on New International Satellite Systems,” 147-53
Sterling, VA, 24
Stewart, Irvin, 85
Sugar Grove, WV, 45
Syncom 1, 4, 5, 35
Syncom 2, 4, 5
Syncom 3, 4, 5
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Television Infrared Operational Satellite (TIROS), 155, 157, 158, 203-06; and NASA, 158-62; and “National Plan
for a Common System of Meteorological Observation Satellites,” 204-06
Telstar, 3, 22, 72, 89-90
Thompson, David, 498-501
Thor launch vehicle, 2
Titan launch vehicle, 2
Townsend, John W., Jr., 498-501
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), 9
TRW Aerospace, 7; and ACTS, 145-47
Tsiolkovskiy, Konstantin, 11
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United Nations, and APSTAR, 10; and ARABSAT, 10; and ASIASAT, 10; and ASTRA, 10; and Communications
Satellite Act of 1962, 5, 61, 63, 76-85, 85-89; and Communications Satellite Corp. (Comsat), 4-5, 72-76, 85-89;
and European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT), 10; and “A Global System of
Satellite Communications,” 99-108; and INMARSAT, 11; and INTELSAT, 4-5, 6-10, 11, 91-95; and international
relations, 4-10; and International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 10-11, 65, 89-90; and PanAmSat, 10;
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