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Whether you’re a Researcher, Student, Parent, Educator, or Employee, AACLA invites you to explore the captivating history of Arthur A. Collins and the Collins Radio Company. Discover a fascinating world of technology as we serve the curious minds of today, and inspire the innovators of tomorrow.
- Arthur A Collins
A few thoughts about my dad, by Michael M. Collins. Download the full PDF
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“Houston, this is Apollo 8.” A brief few words, but a message which brought reassurance to millions of anxious people...
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The earth trembled and spectators’ eardrums were battered with the loudest non-nuclear noise ever produced by man. Belching flame and...
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On Merritt Island, between Cape Kennedy and the Florida mainland, nearing operational readiness is one of mankind’s most commanding engineering...
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Atop a Saturn rocket on the launch pad, the three Apollo astronauts will run through a detailed system checkout before...
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When U.S. astronauts journey to the moon, they will be linked to earth by a pencil-thin radio beam generated by...
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Checkout of the moon-bound Apollo spacecraft will involve the communication of thousands of critical details by hundreds of NASA engineers...
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A complex effort unequaled in space communications is being undertaken by Collins Radio Company in designing and building the Communications...
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“No single space project will be more exciting, or more impressive, or more important for the long-range exploration of space,...
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Breathtaking Atlantic sunrise bathes giant Gemini gantry in red-orange glow. Crew worked around the clock preparing for successful GT-3 launch,...
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Project Gemini – America’s intermediate step in landing a man on the moon – is an early means of experimenting...
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“THE COMMUNICATIONS… WORKED BEAUTIFULLY” A sailor and Collins Radio Company joined in a new effort last month. When Lt. Cmdr....
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A miniaturized communication sub-system, essentially the same as the one aboard the Mercury Freedom 7 spacecraft, again provided the communication...
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Washed by the gentle swells of the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Grand Bahama Island, the Mercury capsule “Freedom 7” awaited...
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Communication-navigation specialist on the Project Mercury team – and perhaps the one to be the first to go into manned...
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First details are released on the 14 electronic systems that will provide voice contact, radio command, beacon tracking and telemetry...
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If America’s passive communication satellite program does nothing else, it will have brought the realities of the space age closer...
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At the world’s most famous shooting gallery – Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 15 of this year, officials of the...
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During August NASA succeeded in orbiting the silver “sateloon,” as it was nicknamed, of Project Echo. The proper name of...
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This electronics complex, located near the Gulf of Mexico at Corpus Christi, Texas, forms a vital link in the global...
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A Collins engineer is dwarfed by the tremendous size of this 60-foot-diameter parabolic reflector for a deep space tracking antenna....
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Initial Trajectory of the Army’s first space probe, launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in December under the direction of the...
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During November, scientists of Collins Radio Company and the National Bureau of Standards used the moon as a giant reflector...
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Collins’ work in radio astronomy centered on design of a precision tracking device known as the radio sextant. This provided...