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had already been a major factor in the development of the Baker- 

 Nunn camera. He was to become the first station cliief at Hawaii. 



Among the observers was Morgan Thomas, an extremely keen 

 amateur astronomer who by profession had been a teclinical photog- 

 rapher for Boeing Aircraft; a side activity was the production of 

 documentary films on natural history. The group drew heavily on 

 his mature experience in organizing and rmining things. He later 

 became the first station chief at Iran. 



Sam "VVliidden, who had earlier been on the Harvard Meteor Project, 

 was actually the first observer to be signed by Smithsonian. He had 

 already become something of an expert in the processing of the film 

 to be used in the Baker-Nmm cameras. He married Marty Holt of 

 the Cambridge staff and together they went to the station in India, 

 where he was the sole American representative. Later, upon their 

 return to this country, he served as a teclinical liaison officer between 

 the Baker-Nunn network and the Moonwatch program. 



Walt Lang, a bearded giant, a graduate of Texas A. and M., and 

 a former pilot of the United States Air Force and later a mathematics 

 instructor, brought to the program an expert knowledge of building 

 design and construction. A man of unusual energy, he went on to 

 supervise the construction of the other stations in North and South 

 America, and later was chief of the station in Hawaii. 



Also from Texas A. and M. was Martin Burkliead, the youngest of 

 the group. An enthusiastic electronics engineer, he became chief of 

 the station in Peru and with characteristic devotion and dedication 

 developed there a number of valuable teclmiques for observing 

 satellites. 



An astronomer and mathematician, Kobert Cameron made his most 

 significant contribution to the program in developing techniques for 

 precise setting of the Baker-Nunn camera from often inaccurate 

 predictions. He later became the first chief of the station in South 

 Africa. 



From Australia came John Grady, who had been working at the 

 Woomera rocket range in the development of missile-tracking tech- 

 niques. After serving as station chief in Australia through its form- 

 ative months, he went to Cambridge as specialist in photographic 

 and tracking systems. 



Responsibility for the Norrman clock was in the hands of Gerald 

 Barton, an expert in electronics and foreign languages, who instructed 

 the observers in the intricacies of the timing system. Working closely 

 with him was Bud Led with, who taught the tricks of computing and 

 allowing for the speed of radio time signals. 



Two others who were not obsei-vers but were at the New Mexico 

 station at that time should also be mentioned. George Bandemer, 



