Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Experiment (AMPTE) (Space Science): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

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Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Experiment (AMPTE) (Space Science): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

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Interviews were conducted with members of the project's collaboration using a structured question set covering all stages of in the collaborative research process: the formation of the collaboration and its personnel; the organizational structure; the formation of the experiment teams; the drafting of the proposal; funding for U.S. groups by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; use of subcontractors; development of software for data collection and analysis; the collaboration's decision-making style; role of the Project Manager, Project Scientist, Program Manager, Program Scientist, and graduates students; impact of internationalism; patterns of communications; records creation, use, distribution, and retention; also, comments on the interviewee's home institution and trends in graduate education in space science. Interviews (listed by institutional member of the collaboration and by name of individual) were conducted with: Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University: John Dassoulas, Thomas Krimijes, Richard McEntire; Goddard Space Flight Center: Mario Acuna, Gilbert Ousley; Imperial College, London: Peter Hedgecock; Lockheed, Palo Alto: Edward Shelley; Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Haerendel, Bernd Häusler, Jakob Stöcker; Mullard Space Science Laboratory: Tom Patrick; NASA Headquarters: Tim Eastman, Erwin Smerling; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: Duncan Bryant, Trevor Edwards, Alan Rogers, Kim Ward; Technical University Braunschweig: Herman Lühr; University of Maryland: George Glocker, Douglas Hamilton. Other institutions in the collaboration include: Max Planck Institute for Aeronomie; TRW; University of Bern; University of California, Berkeley; University of Iowa; University of Sussex; University of Sheffield; and others participating informally by providing data useful to timing the ion releases or by observing the releases from the ground.

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