Richard Easton

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The Space Foundation Conference

Richard Easton has an Sc.B. from Brown University and an M.L.A. from the University of Chicago.  He is a co-author of GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphoneswww.gpsdeclassified.com  It has been named as one of six books in the 2016 Space Professional Reading List by the National Security Space Institute in Colorado Springs. Easton has contributed articles on the history of GPS to The Space Review, Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, Spaceflight and The Institute of Navigation Newsletter.  He has also spoken widely on the topic.  He gave a plenary address in 2009 to the AIAA’s Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, spoke at the 2010 Navy Day celebration in Washington, at the 2012 “After Longitude: Modern Navigation in Context” seminar in England and at the Explorer’s Club in New York in 2014.  He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and works as a consulting actuary in Winnetka, IL.  He has been interested in space for a long time. In second grade, he took the December, 1957 issue of National Geographic to "Show and Tell".  It had a picture of his dad, Roger Easton, holding a Vanguard satellite (which he designed).  Vanguard 1 was the fourth satellite to reach orbit and is the oldest orbiting satellite. 

Broadcast 3030 Hotel Mars with Richard Easton

Guests: John Batchelor, Richard Easton, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  60th anniversary of the Vanguard rocket and more.    Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are not permitted without prior written consent from The Space Show (even if for personal use) & are a violation of the Space Show copyright. We do not permit the commercial use of any Space Show program or part thereof, nor do we permit Space Show programs to be edited, placed on YouTube, or other private channels & websites.

Broadcast 2676 Richard Easton & Dr. Bleddyn Bowen

Guests:  Richard Easton, Dr. Bleddyn Bowen; Topics:  Space power theory, strategy, policy, and more.  Please direct all comments and questions regarding specific Space Show programs & guest(s) to the Space Show blog which is part of archived program on our website, www.thespaceshow.com.  Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use.

Broadcast 2529 (Special Edition)

Guest: Richard Easton; Topics: Searching TSS archives, GPS, Navigation, P.V.H. Weems, space enthusiasts, searchable database for archived programs. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use.

Broadcast 2425 (Special Edition)

Guests: Richard Easton, Eric Frazier. Topics: GPS updates, competitive global positioning systems, and more. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use.

Broadcast 2114 (Special Edition)

Guests: Richard Easton & Eric Frazier. Topics: GPS and their book, "GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones." Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use.

Broadcast 1025 (Special Edition)

Guests: Roger Easton and his son Richard Easton were the guests for this Space Show program. Roger Easton was the designer of the Vanguard 1 satellite, which was key to the Vanguard project, and was the person who conceived, patented, and led the development of critical enabling technologies for the US GPS system. He was also the recipient of the National Medal of Technology which was awarded to him in November 2005. We started the discussion with Roger Easton about Vanguard and the precursor program, the Viking Sounding Rocket program.

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