Thayer County, Neb. Read More. Robert H. The Goddard Memorial Trophy recognizes significant contribution to United States leadership in the field of rocketry and astronautics. Born in Utah in , Simon Ramo earned a doctorate degree, magna cum laude, from the California Institute of Technology at 23 years of age.
When World War II ended, Ramo accepted an offer from Howard Hughes to create a new entity for military electronics and guided missiles. All U. With Ramo leading the project, the U. His book on electromagnetic fields and waves has been the leading text for physicists and electrical engineers for over 50 years.
STL was the first U. Pioneer 1 was the first spacecraft to reach the outer planets and the first to go beyond the solar system into deep space. The recipient of numerous other awards and honorary university doctorates, he was the youngest founding member of the National Academy of Engineering, and is now its only living founder. The awards will be presented at the 54th Annual Robert H. We have said this all alongβthat it takes more than one catastrophic coincidence to take down a plane.
And here we are supported now by the latest Polish investigation into the crash of the Polish Presidential plane. In the case of that crash, the weather was bad. There was no possibility of safe landing. The investigation does not stop there. It goes on to cite a dozen mistakes, safety violations which led to the crash, including crew training, flight prep and rule violations.
Click to view full size photo at Airliners. There are conflicting reports leading up to the decision to land at Smolensk versus Minsk or Moscow , holding pattern, the number of approaches. Everyone aboard the flight was lost, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, the national bank president, deputy foreign minister, army chaplain, head of the National Security Office, deputy parliament speaker, Olympic Committee head, civil rights commissioner and at least two presidential aides and three lawmakers.
