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Taking Measure

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Laura Ost

How NIST Helped Hero Pilot Jimmy Doolittle Fly

August 19, 2020

As portrayed by movie star Spencer Tracy in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, pilot James (Jimmy) Doolittle led the 1942 air raid on Japan that lifted American spirits

NIST Radio Station WWV Celebrates a Century of Service

October 1, 2019

What technological application has had musical, timekeeping, navigational, scientific, traffic-control, emergency-response, and telephone applications? Answer

Black and white photo of Amelia Earhart standing in front of her plane

An Amelia Earhart Mystery at NIST

July 1, 2016

Amelia Earhart continues to make headlines, mainly because of her mysterious disappearance. The famed aviatrix vanished on July 2, 1937, during her attempt to

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