Schneebaum Award Recipients and Lecturers

Moe I. Schneebaum (1920 - 1973) joined the Goddard Space Flight Center in 1958. As Chief of the Earth Observations and Systems Engineering Division, he was instrumental in the development of cameras for the early meteorological satellite program. Noted for his creativeness and vision of the future, he played a significant role in the development of the Multi-spectral Scanner, Return Beam Vidicon Camera, and Wide Band Video Tape Recorder, which were outstanding performers on the first LandSat series of Earth observation satellites. Further, Moe Schneebaum had the foresight to initiate advanced sensing instrument programs such as the Thematic Mapper and the Coastal Zone Color Scanner which were flown on LandSat-D and Nimbus-G respectively.