Friday, June 3, 1960: Aerospace Corporation

The Aerospace Corp. is established in El Segundo, California. Its mission is "to serve the Air Force in the scientific and technical planning and management of missile-space programs." It is set up as a nonprofit company, presumably free of conflicts of interest involving technology applications. Its first president, Ivan Getting (left), would later help create the Global Positioning System (GPS).

* More from Aerospace website: @ and @

* Oral histories: @

* Aerospace Corp. and TRW: @

* List of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers: @

* "The Quasi Government" (report to Congress on FFRDCs): @

* More on the origins of GPS: @ and @

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