Jan 15 1987
From The Space Library
Dr. Lew Allen, Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), announced that construction of JPL's new Microdevices Laboratory would start January 21, 1987. On the same day, NASA Administrator Dr. James C. Fletcher and Dr. Marvin Goldberger, President of the California Institute of Technology, signed a memorandum of understanding for a Center for Space Microelectronics Technology to be established at JPL. The Center would be the successor to the Advanced Microelectronics Program established at JPL in 1983 and headed by Dr. Carl Kukkonen. The Center for Space Microelectronics Technology will be governed by a Board of Governors chaired by Dr. Lew Allen. Dr. Carl Kukkonen was named Center Director. (NASA Release 87-3; Star-News, Jan 20/87; The Foothill Leader, Jan 21/87)
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