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Dr. Robert L. Golden [1940 - 1995]

"Dr. Bob" Golden

Google Search: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Robert+L.+Golden%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox

Obituaries: http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1997BAAS...29.1471O&defaultprint=YES&page_ind=0&filetype=.pdf0

http://www.iupap.org/commissions/c4/cosnews/cosnews35.html#Robert

Book: http://books.google.com/books?id=Ga4VC4hWEXgC&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=nmsu+robert+golden&source=bl&ots=a5PNqxjv2A&sig=we9qlRONrgdVL_cGXqbG5j8EQoQ&hl=en&ei=gP-cTOOOGpPUngfyrrDQDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=nmsu%20robert%20golden&f=false

on the Star Dust spacecraft: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/names2g11.html

NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal: http://inpa.lbl.gov/pbar/talks/S7_Carlson.pdf on slide 9 of 47 NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal#1995

Research Award: Robert L. Golden, Electrical & Computer Engineering; http://www.teaching.nmsu.edu/Resources/awards/prevBromilow.html

From the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/07/science/balloon-teams-vie-to-be-first-around-world.html?pagewanted=all

The chief engineer of the Odyssey project, Dr. Robert L. Golden of New Mexico State University, is a professor of astrophysics who has spent much of his career sending heavy scientific payloads to the edge of space aboard huge unmanned balloons. His best-known scientific achievement was the discovery in 1979 of antiprotons as a component of cosmic rays hitting the Earth from the depths of space. The discovery, which Dr. Golden made using instruments aboard a balloon flying at 110,000 feet, established the fact that antimatter existed in nature, not solely as the artificial product of nuclear collisions in laboratory accelerators.

"We've had lots and lots of experience with high-altitude scientific balloons," Dr. Golden said. "Some unmanned balloon flights carrying scientific payloads have actually completed two or more circuits of the earth, and we're confident that our balloon will carry a human crew safely.

"These balloons sometimes do fail at high altitude, especially around noon, when the sun warms them up," he said. "But Odyssey's crew capsule will be attached to a big parachute that's already deployed and ready to open automatically. Also, each crew member will have a personal parachute."

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/01/science/balloon-bargains-lure-scientists.html One of the most important achievements involving Palestine balloons was the 1979 discovery by a group headed by Robert L. Golden of New Mexico State University that cosmic rays sometimes contain antiprotons -the antimatter equivalent of ordinary protons. Dr. Golden is now pursuing the quest for cosmic-ray antimatter with another balloon-borne experiment at the facility's station in Ainsworth, Neb.