April 5; 1960

Dr. Clark Randt

Headquarters, National Aeronautics &
Space Administration

1520 H Street Northwest

Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Clark:

The enclosed letter should be self-explanatory. It might have made more
sense to address it to you in the first Instance.

Can you see any way to meet my request through NASA channels? We might
be able to leapfrog quite a bit by taking advantage of this other work.

Is there any way your office can help me keep apprised of other useful
and relevant developments in television technique? To be sure, my main concern
and responsibility Is the input to the camera, but it Is only good sense to
match the admittances.

While in London f will be picking up some quartz optics and the McArthur
miniature microscope. Actually the latter Is only a mechanical convenience for
the intermediate development work, but It does help show the feasibility of a
compact microscope and will be a convenient bench on which to fit other elements.

! hope George Derbyshire will have been in touch with you about that
May |Sth meeting.

Yours sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg

Encl.