@inbook{e349426dd3e7410d878b8bcab9b02a1f,
title = "Adopting TOPEX/Poseidon",
abstract = "NASA Administrator Robert Frosch, an oceanographer, saw the value of satellite observations and directed his agency to build a program for ocean satellites with research as a purpose. W. Stanley Wilson, an oceanographer and bureaucratic entrepreneur, joined NASA to create such a program (Seasat was seen as a technology demonstration only). This chapter details what and how Wilson built an ocean program. At NASA Administrator James Beggs{\textquoteright} insistence, he acquired a research and development partner (France{\textquoteright}s space agency, Centre national d{\textquoteright}{\'e}tudes spatiales, CNES). They promoted a new satellite, TOPEX/Poseidon. One reason it took so long to go from Seasat to the launch of TOPEX/Poseidon in 1992 was rivalry between Wilson and Shelby Tilford, who headed a higher agency priority, the Earth Observation System (EOS). Tilford wanted the ocean and Wilson as part of EOS. Wilson wanted autonomy. Tilford won and Wilson departed before TOPEX/Poseidon launched.",
keywords = "Centre national d{\textquoteright}{\'e}tudes spatiales (CNES), Earth Observation System (EOS), James Beggs, Robert Frosch, TOPEX/Poseidon, W. Stanley Wilson",
author = "Lambright, {W. Henry}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 2023.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-40363-7_3",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "21--37",
booktitle = "Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology",
}