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Topic: Robert Farquhar, mission designer (1932-2015)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 10-18-2015 06:21 PM
   
Robert Farquhar, who as a NASA mission designer and director helped pioneer the use Lagrange points and complex trajectories to execute deep space missions, died Sunday (Oct. 18). He was 83. From the brief biographical summary written for his memoirs, "Fifty Years on the Space Frontier: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More." Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1932, Robert Farquhar has worked and published in the space industry since 1959, holding senior positions at NASA from 1966 to 1990. In 1978, he served as the Flight Director for the first libration-point mission, ISEE-3. From 1990 to 2007, he worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he was the mission director for four deep-space missions, NEAR, CONTOUR, MESSENGER, and New Horizons. From 2007 to 2008, he held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair for Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum. Farquhar was most recently involved in the attempt to regain control of the ISEE-3 satellite, which in 1985 he redirected to intercept the Giacobini-Zinner comet. |
Apollo-Soyuz
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posted 10-18-2015 06:42 PM
As a memorial to Robert Farquhar, here is a scan of a cover he autographed for me back in the 1980s.  |
mach3valkyrie
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