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Jan. 1961 Popular Science story starring William O'Sullivan Jr, who headed Project Echo and the whole satelloon paradigm at the fledgling NASA.
greg.org: the making of greg 2010
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During the early 1960's, Goddard launched the Echo I and Echo II satelloon projects.
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The mystery to be solved was whether or not this bit of mylar was from Goddard's Echo II satelloon project.
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History Detective Zuberi turned to retired NASA engineer and self-professed Echo satelloon historian Ron Muller for help in solving the mylar mystery.
vanishedone commented on the word satelloon
Greg.org: 'From about 1956 until 1964, US aeronautics engineers and rocket scientists at the Langley Research Center developed a series of spherical satellite balloons called, awesomely enough, satelloons.'
November 27, 2007
bilby commented on the word satelloon
At last, a word to rhyme with pantaloons!
November 27, 2007