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by William R. Corliss
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Washington D.C. 20546
 
 ntrodu tion
For a decade. NASA has probed the cosmos with
numerous manned and unmanned spacecraft, eachhaving a specific purpose and each, most often, having
its own unique characteristi::s. Yet, common to every
undertaking, whether simple sounding rocket orcomplex manned Apollo, is the need to communicatebetween the ground and the spacecraft.
 Linking Man and Spacecraft deals with the transferof vital information between spacecraft and the Earth.
Spacecraft communication is difficult to separate fromspacecraft tracking in the sense that NASA's threeworldwide ground-based networks perform bothfunctions. Most NASA network stations possess systemsthat can simultaneously track and acquire spacecraft
data. Despite this dual capability of NASA hardware,
spacecraft tracking—a subject dealing with the precisionlocation of spacecraft—has a different theoretical
background. Because of this distinction. Spacecraft
Tracking
 
is th : title of another 'booklet in this seriesGerald M. Truszyrsk^
Associate Administrator forTracking and Data Acquisition

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