[FPSPACE] FW: [HASTRO-L] Eberhardt Rechtin

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: "Craig B. Waff" <cbwaff at ATT.NET>
>Reply-To: History of Astronomy Discussion Group <HASTRO-L at LISTSERV.WVU.EDU>
>To: HASTRO-L at LISTSERV.WVU.EDU
>Subject: [HASTRO-L] Eberhardt Rechtin
>Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:09:02 +0000
>
>Members of this list may be interested in learning of the sad news that 
>Eberhardt Rechtin, who in the late 1950s and early 1960s led the team at 
>the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that developed NASA's Deep Space Network 
>communications system for communicating with space probes, passed away at 
>the age of 80 on Friday, 14 April 2006.  Rechtin was also a director of the 
>Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an Assistant Secretary of 
>Defense for telecommunications, chief engineer at Hewlett Packard, chief 
>executive officer of the Aerospace Corporation, and a professor at the 
>University of Southern California.  While conducting research for a history 
>of the Deep Space Network, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Rechtin 
>several times.
>
>Obituaries written for the Los Angeles Times and the Pasadena Star-News can 
>be found online at
>
>http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-rechtin18apr18,1,1635196.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
>
>http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_3725423
>
>
>Craig B. Waff
>Historian, 89th Airlift Wing
>Andrews AFB, Maryland