Vincent E. Lally

1948 (Electronic Engineering) 1949-1951 Development Engineer, Bendix-Friez 1951-1958 Chief, Meteorological Equipment Development, Air Force Cambridge Research Center 1958-1961 Research Manager, Teledynamics Division, American Bosch Arma Corporation 1961-1965 Director, National Scientific Balloon Facility Vincent E. Lally (October 13, 1922 – September 20, 2005) received a B.S.

After service in the Pacific as a meteorologist and radar officer in the Army Air Corps, Lally returned to M.I.T.

The demonstration of the capability to fly superpressure balloons on multiple orbits of the globe was the critical experiment which triggered international support for the Global Atmospheric Research Program.

[4] The Rocket-Balloon-Instrument sphere (ROBIN), designed in 1955, was the principal vehicle for rocket soundings of the atmosphere.

he wrote the definitive publication on superpressure-ballooning as well as chapters in several handbooks on ballooning and atmospheric sounding systems.

Vincent E. Lally with balloon in 1960s. According to Marcel Verstraete (2011), Ernie Litchfield is on the far right of Lally and Bob Frickman and Sam Solat are on left .
Early 1960s launch of a zero-pressure balloon from the floor of Glen Canyon before a scientific balloon facility was operational. The windbreak provided by the Glen Canyon Dam provided an ideal location for inflating and launching balloons. After the dam was complete, however, the canyon was flooded to create Lake Powell.