ZD8HCF 1988 Ascension Island

The operator was Richard F. "Dick" Lord, KL7HCF. He was assigned to the NASA Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network (STDN) at Ascension Island. NASA's STDNs supported low-Earth orbital missions.

At the height of the space race, 6,000 men and women operated NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network at some two dozen locations across five continents. This network, known as STDN, began its operation by tracking Sputnik1, the world's first artificial satellite. Over the next 40 years, the network played a crucial role on every near Earth space mission that NASA flew. Whether it was receiving the first television images from space, tracking Apollo astronauts to the Moon and back, or data acquiring for Earth science, the STDN was that intricate network behind the scenes making the missions possible

--NASA History Release: Sunny Tsiao, "Read You Loud and Clear!" The Story of NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network. (Washington, D.C.: NASA SP-2007-4233), pp. 481 + xlii, hardcover, with some black and white photos.

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