Humans first contacted the moon days after World War II; Project Diana gave birth to radar astronomy by bouncing radio waves off the moon to receive a signal back. I went to the Project Diana Site to recreate it, with a slight twist…
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Sources:
NASA overview of radio in space communication: history.nasa.gov/SP-4218/ch1.htm
Frank O'Brien, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Solar System Ambassador, lecture on Project Diana’s place in space communication: • The 75th Anniversary o...
TIROS Satellite Program: science.nasa.gov/missions/tiros
Detailed history of Camp Evans:infoage.org/history/historica...
Navy application of radar: history.nasa.gov/SP-4217/ch2.htm
Conversion of TIROS satellite to modern day applications, including moon bounce: www.princeton.edu/news/2016/0...
Project Diana History, c/o InfoAge Space Exploration Center: infoage.org/history/army-rese...
Project Diana New Coverage:
Radio News, April 1946 (25-7) worldradiohistory.com/Archive...
Time Magazine, 10 Feb 1946 content.time.com/time/subscrib...
Media:
Le Voyage Dans La Lun, Georges Méliès (1902) - archive.org/details/LeVoyageD...
1946 John DeWitt Newsreel (International Astronautical Federation Creative Commons licence: Video derives from the Universal International News archive which has been placed in the public domain) • 1946: Radar makes roun... ,
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20 июн 2021