This caricature of Albert Holm, created at Greenbelt Plaza late in 1970, gives
a humorous portrayal of his job with NASA&#146s 
<a href="http://albertholm.com/OAO2Photos/OAO2Gallery.html">Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-2</a>. 
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The second photo shows reality.
Albert Holm  is sitting in the office of the University of Wisconsin 
in the basement of Goddard Space Flight Center&#146s Building 14. 
He is planning observations for OSO-2&#146s Wisconsin Experiment Package (WEP) 
using computer printouts.
Nearly all operations of the WEP were carried out with scheduled instructions specified  
to the control center computers by IBM cards. You can see a stack of IBM cards 
on the table. 
In the adjoining control room, Wisconsin had a PDP-8 computer, a printer, and 
command-generating equipment. The real-time command  
equipment was only used rarely for observations that could not be obtained 
any other way. 


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Dust and/or other blemishes have not been removed from this version of the image.
This image has lower resolution than 300 dpi. 
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