Sep 3 1969
From The Space Library
NASA's HL-10 lifting-body vehicle, piloted by NASA test pilot William H. Dana, reached 81,000-ft altitude and mach 1.42 after air-launch from B-52 aircraft west of Rosamond, Calif. Primary objective of flight, 24th in series and first -with new engine, was to obtain stability, control, and engine data. (NASA Proj Off)
Tokyo Univ. scientists successfully launched four-stage Lambda rocket in preparation for launch of Japan's first satellite in late September. (UPI W News, 8/4/69; Harrison, W Post, 9/24/69, A9)
MSFC announced contract awards: McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co. was awarded $97,340,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee/award-fee contract to provide for two Saturn V Workshops-one for launch in 1972 and second for backup. McDonnell Douglas also received $87,450,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee/award-fee contract modification for continued work on two airlock modules for Apollo Applications (AA) program cluster, including tests, checkout, documentation and logistics support Boeing Co. received $25,130,376 contract modification extending period for completion of Saturn V 1st stage (S-IC-15) from June 30, 1970, to June 30, 1971. (MSFC Releases 69-199, 69-200, 69-201)
Swedish aircraft constructor Has Fancher had said that in 1944 Adolf Hitler took delivery of first Junkers 390 aircraft with 14,400-hp engine constructed specially to bomb New York, Washington Daily News reported. Fancher, pilot on aircraft's nonstop test flight between Germany and South America, said plane weighed 93 tons with bombs and had planned range for nonstop flights from Bordeaux in occupied France to New York and return. Aircraft, delivered too late for use in war, had been burned by Germans. Comparable aircraft was not built until 1956, Fancher said. (W News, 9/3/69)
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