NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET NAME: Richard R. Carley O RAL H ISTORY: 2 March 1999 EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada , 1952 University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada , 1956-1958 PRE-NASA CAREER: Junior Engineer , Canadian National Telegraph, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1952-1954) Senior ... Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. ...

... I'd like you to imagine that you are aliens, living in the city of Mog, on a strange and distant world that just happens to be just like the Earth. ... The inhabitants of Mog have never seen the sky. ... They believe that the Great God has a light switch, which she switches off and on to make day and night. ... You have recently completed the greatest piece of telegraph engineering that the world of Mog has ever seen: a telegraph linking Mog to the incredibly distant seaside city of Zing. ...

... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Fierce 2012 magnetic storm barely missed Earth . ... The solar bursts would have enveloped Earth in magnetic fireworks matching the largest magnetic storm ever reported on Earth, the so-called Carrington event of 1859. ... The goal of STEREO and other satellites probing the magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth is to understand how and why the Sun sends out these large solar storms and to be able to predict them during the Sun's 11-year solar cycle. ...

STAR FIELDS Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using Vol. ... He is also working with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to image planets of nearby stars. ... Sky and Telescope has a page dedicated to the comet with interesting links to photos, history and observing notes from astronomers. ... Steve Beckwith, John Maher and Mike Mattei ~ Video Astronomy Course . ...