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Rice University. Space Science Dept.
Rice University Space Science Department records, 1960s-1990s.
Collection includes photographs, newsclippings, departmental booklets and scrapbooks conveying the history of the Space Science Department at Rice University from the 1960s to the 1990s.
The Department of Space Science was established by Rice University in 1963. The new department would begin with four faculty members and nine graduate students in the spring of 1963, focused on research and high-level instruction in a variety of cutting-edge fields. By 1965 there were nine Faculty and three Research Associates. The instructional program was at the graduate level except for one senior-level introductory course. Both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees were offered. Begun in 1965, the Space Science and Technology Building was funded by a $1.6 million dollar NASA grant and completed in the fall of 1966. By 1966-1967 there were twelve Faculty and five Research Associates and Lecturers, including a Scientist Astronaut on leave with NASA. There were then fifty grad students, many of them associated with the Manned Space Center or aerospace contractors. Course offerings had also expanded to include two undergraduate-level survey courses.
Rice University. Space Science Dept.
Space sciences.
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Rice University. Fondren Library. Woodson Research Center. P. O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77001, USA
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