Baldwin certainly didn’t start his astronomy career focused on the Moon. In fact, just the opposite. He was interested, along with the majority of sky scientists in the 1930s, in the exotic and unexplored stars and galaxies that lay far beyond the Moon.
University of Michigan, 1937 UM astrophysics doctoral committee.
I don’t like the doggone thing.
It gets in the way , the light of
the Moon. It bothers every kind of observ ation I want to make.
Cape Canaveral July 16, 1969
I present to you my thesis
on Nov a Cygni III , in which I
unravel the complicated spectra and posit a model of events that occurred at this nov a.
University of Pennsylvania, 1938
Congratulations Ralph , you’re featured
in
Time magazine for the work you did on the st ar Gamma Cassiopeiae.
Guess that makes you
Baldwin at his first job out of college at Flower observatory.
f amous!
Northwestern University, 1939 Baldwin’s first teaching job at Dearborn Observatory.
From the VIP area of Kennedy Space Center, Ralph Baldwin witnesses firsthand the launch of Apollo 11, his eldest son, Dana, by his side. And that’s how we classified
I can’t believe we’re st anding here. We’re sending men to the Moon.
the previously unidentified N ,R , and S
st ars. Our findings will be published in the
Annals of the Dearborn Observatory.
All those years researching ,
and now my work is going to be checked on the spot .
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