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FROM ASTRONAUTS TO CUBESATS, SPACE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH AT NPS Pushes Boundaries by DAN LINEHAN
W hether it’s providing accurate positioning and navigation, or enabling intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, the space domain has never been more important to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
A Trailblazing Tradition “It’s wonderful that NPS has such a strong space program, for both engineers and operational students, and that the magic of spaceflight has caught on here.”
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) remains at the forefront in helping to meet the sea services’ needs in space, developing talent and technological solutions for decisive U.S. seapower and national defense.
These words were spoken by re- tired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Scott Carpen- ter—an NPS graduate, a member of NASA’s famed “Mercury Seven,” and the second U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth—over a speakerphone during a call to NPS in 2009. At the other
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