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ii The NEW BERN '^LISHED WEEKLY heart of 4A 4. '«ORTH GjjJ J\r VOLUME 8 NEW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1965 NUMBER 37 No one watching Gemini 7 astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell, Jr., zoom Into space last Saturday could have been more interested than New Bern’s Edmund J. Habib. Ed is Associate Chief of the recently formed Information Processing Division of God dard’s Space Flight Center, Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, at Greenbelt, Md. He not only has the distinc tion of being one of Goddard’s earliest employees, but also was a member of the original Project Vanguard team. He transferred to Goddard after 8- 1/2 years in the Rocket Sonds Branch of the U. S. Naval Re search Laboratory. At NRL, Habib held positions of progressive importance to the space effort, and chalked up a number of outstanding achievements. He worked on the Viking rocket instrumen tation, helped design the Mini- track Tracking System, de veloped the Time StandardSys- tem and the Optical Calibration System. The techniques used today are based on some of his original work. On arrival at Goddard, he was Head of the Systems Evalua tion Branch and was responsi ble for the calibration techni ques and accuracy of the Mini track Tracking System. While also serving in this position, he originated Goddard’s Range and Range Rate System, which is fast becoming STADAN’s principal and most accurate tracking system. The super-accuracy of this system was verified from its first application on Syncom when it provided the orbital pos ition of the satelite at a height of 22,000 miles to an accuracy of less than 50 feet. Ed’s accomplishments as Branch Head precipitated his rise in October 1961 to Assist ant Chief of the Space Data Acquisition Division. In this capacity, his development of Goddard’s telemetry data pro cessing facilities led to his appointment in July 1963 as Assistant Chief of the Data Systems Division. Getting Habib to talk about himself isn’t easy. We’ve been privileged to spend several hours in his company during recent months, and chatted with him for awhile last Sunday, but he is much too modest to crow over personal achievements. Tallng in general about his department, he says, “We pro vide advanced planning for ways and means of tackling the bil lions of data points of infor mation transmitted from the Goddard satellites. “The division is charged,” says Ed, “with the implemen tation and operation of data processing for the telemetered data from Goddard scientific salutes. It also constructs and plans advanced techniques for onboard data processing of the information gathered from the experiments. Although he lives in District Heights, Maryland, at 7908 Lansdale Street, Habib still calls the house next to ours, at 708 Chattawka Lane, his home. Whenever the o{q)ortun- ity arises, which under the circumstances isn’t often, he hurries here to visit his moth er, Mrs. Joseph Habib. Ed’s wife, Mary Lou, and ^Continued on page 8) EDMUND JOSEPH HABIB (See Looking Glass)
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