Raytheon Turns 90 Tomorrow
Raytheon Marks 90 Years of Customer Focus, Technology and Innovation Leadership, Raytheon
“This month, Raytheon Company celebrates its 90th anniversary as a technology and innovation leader. Founded July 7, 1922, as the American Appliance Company in Cambridge, Mass., Raytheon through the generations has developed solutions for some of the most challenging requirements by tapping into a spirit of perpetual innovation and dedication to core values and customer success.”
“A Raytheon-MIT guidance computer enabled Apollo 11 in its journey, and its on-board microwave tube transmitted radio and TV signals to Earth, enabling millions to witness history live when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Colonel Edwin Aldrin stepped onto the moon.”
I was thirteen in 1969 and remember watching the event in
awe on a 13″ B&W TV. The picture was grainy, but we were
watching the first man on the moon, live. Thanks for the pictures, Raytheon!
There are too many in the US that will never be able to appreciate the difficulty of these feats accomplished more than 40 years ago. They have been brought up at a time when technological miracles are made to seem easy and matter of course. I was 22 in 1969 and watched the landing on my second hand black and white set that failed me during the following week. But I witnessed history, thanks to Raytheon.