Listen to Eric Frazier talk about GPS on “Who’s Talking with D.G. Martin,” broadcast February 8, 2014. Their conversation covers the history of the technology, how it works, and some of the implications for everyday life.
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Interview on NPR affiliate 88.5 WFDD
Listen to an interview with Audrey Fannin, news coordinator for NPR affiliate 88.5 WFDD (Winston-Salem, NC) on December 10, 2013. Richard and Eric discuss the origin of GPS and its vital role today in maintaining synchronized timing for digital networks, financial transactions, power distribution and radio broadcasting. You can also hear Eric read the first three paragraphs of the introduction to GPS Declassified.
http://wfdd.org/post/getting-there-here-local-writer-publishes-book-about-gps
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The Space Show Interview – Podcast Now Available
Listen to Richard and Eric discuss GPS Declassified during their November 3, 2013, appearance on The Space Show. The host, Dr. David Livingston, and callers from across the country posed questions on a wide range of topics from airline safety to autonomous farm tractors.
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The Space Review – William Mellberg
“GPS Declassified is a carefully researched, well written, fast-paced, and thoroughly enjoyable book. It offers an excellent mix of science, technology, history and culture. Kudos to co-authors Richard Easton and Eric Frazier for their outstanding contribution to space history. This book is highly recommended.” Read the complete review.
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Hardcover Edition Now Available!
GPS Declassified is now in stock at the publisher, and several online sellers are shipping copies. For the many who have told us they prefer the look and feel of a physical book in their hands, the wait is over. If your favorite local bookseller does not have the book in stock, please ask them to order it and stock it.
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New York Journal of Books – Robert Schaefer
“Written in a clear and lively style GPS Declassified provides readers with GPS development history including personal recollections from leading developers…. As an introduction to GPS, its history, uses, issues and concerns GPS Declassified can’t be beat.” Read the full review…
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Advance praise: Walter J. Boyne
“The authors do the impossible, making an intricate technological advance fascinating to read. They offer an informative and well researched account of how GPS proved its worth even before the system was complete. The results it provided in the Persian Gulf War were truly revolutionary. With this seemingly miraculous kick-off, GPS technology was almost immediately integrated throughout military systems. Entrepreneurs immediately picked up on this, and made it equally successful in commerce.”
—Walter J. Boyne, author of How the Helicopter Changed Modern Warfare and former director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution
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Advance praise: Mike Gruntman
“A fine and entertaining story of the origins of the Global Positioning System, a consequential space-age technology that has affected the lives of hundreds of millions in war and peace. Non-specialist readers will easily understand principles of this sophisticated system and appreciate difficulties of GPS development by visionary individuals.”
—Mike Gruntman, PhD, professor of astronautics at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles and author of Blazing The Trail: The Early History Of Spacecraft And Rocketry
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