On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:59:28 -0500, clifto wrote:

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What? No mention of his direct responsibility for much of modern space
activity (his postulation of what is known widely as the Clarke Belt, a zone
of space wherein objects fall at exactly the same rate as they orbit the
Earth, making geostationary/geosynchronous satellites, and, therefor, global
satellite communications possible).

Quite likely because NASA had so little to do with geosynch satellites
which were first proven by Hal Rosen and Tom Hudspeth of Hughes
Aircraft Company with the SYNCOM satellite.

I forgot, where exactly is the Hughes launch center?
Hughes built (now bought by Boeing) the satellites but as Hughes never
launched on their own.