CONTENTS
What It Took By Rebecca L. Johnson
1. Lift Off! page 1
2. Beginnings page 4
3. The South Dakota Connection page 8
4. Operation Ground Shot page 12
5. Designing a Data Center page 19
6. The Downtown Office page 23
7. ERTS -1 and the EROS Data Center page 33
8. A New Location, A New Direction page 44
9. Years of Expansion (1975-1978) page 51
10. Clouds Over EROS (1979-1984) page 66
11. An Uncertain Future (1985-1989) page 80
12. A Global Perspective page 92
13. What It Took page 106
