ASPB HISTORY

NESDIS History

- 1959, Explorer-7

- 1960, TIROS-1

- 1960, National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS) Founded

- 1961, Congressional madate for operational weather satellites

- 1965, the Environmental Data Service (EDS) was established with the advent of ESSA (Environmental Science Services Administration).

- 1966, NASA's ATS-1 (with Dr. Suomi's Spin Scan Cloud Camera)

- 1970 (October 3), NOAA is formed (in Commerce, not Interior).

- 1978, EDS was renamed the Environmental Data and Information Service (EDIS)

- 1980 (August), the NESS was removed from the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Services and became a principal agency line organization in NOAA.

- 1982, NESDIS was formed with the merger of NESS (National Earth Satellite Service) and the Environmental Data Service.

- As of August 27, 2023; ASPB (and CORP) dissolved and merged with other STAR divisions/branches. The federal employees remained in Madison, WI.

- Howard Yates, 1975 -

- P. K. Rao, 1982 -

- James F. W. Purdom, 1996 -

- Marie C. Colton, 2000 - (name changed to STAR)

- Alfred A. Powell, 2005 -

- Harry Cikanek, 2017 -

- Doug Howard, 2022 -