Andrew J. Butrica Radar Astronomy Collection, 1993-1994.

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Andrew J. Butrica Radar Astronomy Collection, 1993-1994.

The collection includes transcripts of interviews that Butrica conducted in the course of researching the book "To See the Unseen: A History of Planetary Radar Astronomy," published in the NASA History Series in 1996. Each interview contains an abstract, table of contents, interview transcript and index. Many of the interview transcripts contain a chronology, bibliography, and list of publications. The interview transcripts range from 26 to 107 pages in length.

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