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Ascension Island: Research facilities, airstrip, and equipment, 1968-1980

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Scope and Contents

(507) Ascension Island, buildings, January 2, 1968; (816B) Ascension Island, air strip, balloon, trailer, copy, NCAR Photographics Lab date: June 21, 1968; (834B) Ascension Island, runway, copy, NCAR Photographics Lab date: August 20, 1968; ; (899) Ascension Island, Nimbus balloon, personnel, Interrogation, Recording, and Location Subsystem [IRLS], Packet 1: frames 1-116, Packet 2: frames 117-245, August 20, 1969; (904C) Nimbus balloon on ground, base shots, Ascension Island area, August 20, 1969; (907C) Nimbus flight 1805-2, Ascension, August 13, 1969; (908C) Nimbus flight 2103-7, Ascension, August 19, 1969; (909C) Nimbus flight 2003-4, Ascension, August 15, 1969; (910C) Nimbus flight 1905-5A, Ascension, August 15, 1969; (1114, 1114C) Ascension Island, topographical map (same jacket, all together), July 29, 1970; (1182, 1182C) Ascension Island, Mother GHOST [Global Horizontal Sounding Technique], October-November 1970, photographed by: Henry van de Boogaard, photo office date: December 4, 1970; (1246) Ascension Island, March 5, 1969; (1265) Ascension Island, package landed in Congo, cut down device, January 29, 1971; (1266) OMEGA Test, Ascension Island, flight 594P on January 19, 1971, photographed and processed by Robert Frykman, NCAR Photographics Lab date: February 1, 1971; (1445C) Ascension Island, December 1971, photographed by: Jack Tefft; (1649C) Ascension Island balloon launch, slide copies, September 21, 1972; (1889BC) Ascension Island, 17 internegatives, copies, NCAR Photographics lab date: June 4, 1973; (1893B) Ascension Island, copies, NCAR Photographics Lab date: June 5, 1973; (3120C) Ascension Island, TWERLE, August 8, 1975, photographed by: Jack Tefft; (4270C) Ascension Island, TWERLE, October 24, 1977, photographed by: Jack Tefft; (4918C) Ascension Island, Equatorial Winds Experiment [EWE] launches, February 1979, photographed by: Jack Tefft; (4989C) EWE, Ascension Island, March 1979, photographed by: Neil Carlson; (5216B) Ascension Island balloon flight, photographed by: Jack Tefft, NCAR Photographics Lab date: March 21, 1980.

Dates

  • Creation: 1968-1980

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Please note that the photographic negatives and slides in this collection are stored off-site, and advance notice is needed for access to these materials.

Full Extent

From the Collection: 150 Linear Feet

Full Extent

From the Collection: 6 Terabytes

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Archives Repository