Correspondence and papers from a folder labelled, 'AFCRL'. Material relates to the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
The (US) Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories were established in 1945 as the Air Force Cambridge Research Center (AFCRC), a Cold War systems development organisation which developed telephone modem communications for a Digital Radar Relay in 1949. The laboratories were active from 1945 to 2011.
Correspondence is largely between ZK and AFCRL personnel, particularly the following: Robert W. Carder, Aeronautical Chart and Information Centre, Department of the Air Force, St. Louis, Missouri, including, preparing a Cartographic Dossier for NASA, his visit to Europe and his retirement; Dr. Donald H. Eckhardt, Geodesey Branch, Terrestrial Sciences Laboratory, AFCRL, Bedford, Massachusetts, regarding research projects including, Grant AFOSR 72-2261 and ZK's final scientific report, 'Scaled Photogrammetric Research'; and the Lamont-Hussey Observing Station.
Other material includes: a press release regarding light flashes observed by astronauts on Apollo 11, 12, 13, and 14; evaluation of Department of the Air Force, HQ OAR (Headquarters Office of Aerospace Research) publications; off-prints of articles by Tony Rukl; and a press cutting regarding the 'space race'.