INPE - 1972

• COBAE visits INPE for the first time.
• Remote Sensing Antenna for data receiving is installed in Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.
  INPE started working to establishment a remote sensing data receiving station in Cuiabá, MT, Brazil.
• First measurements of atmospheric sodium in Latin America.
• Wernher Von Braun (NASA) - known as "Father of Space Age " - visits INPE
• Astronauts James Lawell and Donald Slayton (NASA) visit INPE
  
  
  
  (L to R) Dr. Luiz Gylvan Meira Filho, Donald Slayton e James Lawell.

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