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GPS Declassified: An Interview with Richard Easton

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with Richard Easton, author of GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones, to discuss the development of GPS and its role in the military, intelligence, and civilian domains. Easton’s father, Roger, led the Space Applications Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory from the Vanguard Satellite era to the early days of GPS development.

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So we're joined today by Richard Easton, who has a BS from Bryan University of

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Chicago, he is a co-author of GPS-classified from smart bombs to smart phones.

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This book has been named as one of six books in the 2016 Space Professional Reading List by the

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National Security Space Institute in Colorado Springs. He's also contributed articles

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on the history of GPS to the Space Review, Quest, The History of Space Fight Quarterly, spaceflight and the Institute of Navigation

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newsletter.

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He's also spoken widely on the topic of GPS, giving a plenary address in 2009 to

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