Preface
Is this about Back to the Future? Well, yes and no. The editors work at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory,* rich with close to 75 years of innovative technological achievements. Most recently, the Laboratory designed, built, and operated the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) New Horizons mission with the internationally inspiring close flyby of Pluto and on into the Kuiper Belts. This mission, like all accomplishments, moves rapidly into history and adds to the legacy. In the 1950s, the Laboratory was the scene of the invention of satellite navigation by Bill Guier and George Wiffenbach that led to the Navy’s Transit constellation and, eventually, to the Global Positioning System. Back then, ...
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