[Nik Naym]

“GPS did not come from NASA research. I should know since my Dad invented it.”

GPS wouldn’t work worth a damn if we didn’t have the knowledge and technology to build, launch, insert into specific orbits and predict with certain accuracy the position of SATELLITES.

Where do you think that came from?

[Richard from IL]

Some of that came from my Dad. He designed Minitrack and the Naval Space Surveillance System (two tracking systems). He also designed the Vanguard 1. I'm in the first six seconds of this video of yours truly, my brother and three sisters. We'll shown around the Vanguard 1 a week or two before its launch in March, 1958. I'm wearing the red coat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msLSW1U1t1U

There will many more details in the book about GPS I'm writing with a co-author to be published in 2013.