Mar 8 2002
From The Space Library
James Bock, an astrophysicist at NASA’s JPL, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Bock had begun his career with JPL in 1994, developing detectors and instruments for far-infrared, millimeter-wave astrophysics. The award is the U.S. government’s highest honor for scientists and engineers commencing their careers. (NASA JPL, “JPL Astrophysicist Receives Presidential Award,” news release, 8 March 2002.)
NASA successfully launched the second spacecraft for its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) fleet~ called the TDRS-9 or TDRS-I~ from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 10:59 p.m. (UT). The TDRS satellite system provided tracking and data-acquisition services between low Earth-orbiting spacecraft and ground-based control and data-processing facilities. In addition, the TDRS satellite system served numerous NASA programs, including the HST, the ISS, and the Space Shuttle. NASA had launched the first TDRS satellite in 1983. (Spacewarn Bulletin, no. 581, 1 April 2002, http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/spacewarn/spx581.html (accessed 31 October 2008); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, National Space Science Data Center, “NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS),” http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/multi/tdrs.html (accessed 31 October 2008).
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