HR266 Summary

• Commends Dr. Charles A. Lundquist for his outstanding achievement and dedicated public service at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and for publishing "Transplanted Rocket Pioneers"

• Recognizes Dr. Lundquist's career beginning with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University (1949) and Ph.D in Physics from the University of Kansas (1954)

• Honors his service from 1956 to 1960 as Chief of the Physics and Astrophysics Branch at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, where he participated in planning and analysis of Explorer 1 and other U.S. satellites

• Acknowledges his roles at the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard College Observatory, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and as Director of Research at the University of Alabama in Huntsville until 1996

• Expresses gratitude for Dr. Lundquist's 68-year involvement in America's space exploration activities and his effort to chronicle the history and role of transplanted rocket pioneers in developing the University of Alabama in Huntsville