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... of Massachussetts Institute of Technology MIT . A Polaris missile of the advanced A-2 design was fired from Cape Canaveral 1,600 miles down the Atlantic Missile Range . It was the third success in ... 2,967,393 is issued to Wernher von Braun for a "rocket propelled missile". The design looks exactly like the V-2 missile first launched 19 years earlier. January 1961 January Jan 1 ... 1961 6 Jan 7 1961 7 Jan 8 1961 8 Jan 9 1961 9 Jan 10 1961 10 Jan 11 1961 11 Jan 12 1961 12 Jan 13 1961 13 Jan 14 ...

... . One NASA report on hypohydration-condition when a person drinks too little water-noted a 5% weight loss due to water imbalance was tolerable, but a 10% loss could cause gross mental and physical ... )'' U.S. authorities had considered and rejected the idea of building orbiting nuclear missiles because it would be a clumsy, inaccurate method of waging atomic war, reported the Associated Press, U.S ...

... seconds after launch from Vandenberg AFB . Advanced model of Navy's Polaris A-2 missile was successfully test-fired from a land pad at Cape Canaveral , in 1,700-mi. flight downrange. Reported ... vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tests with the twin-jet research aircraft. British Blue Water missile development was canceled, after British Government had spent $84 million on the 75-mile-range ... 1962 6 Aug 7 1962 7 Aug 8 1962 8 Aug 9 1962 9 Aug 10 1962 10 Aug 11 1962 11 Aug 12 1962 12 Aug 13 1962 13 Aug 14 ...

... Nuclear-Powered Long Range Ballistic Missiles,” issued in March 1955. Here the Los Alamos National Laboratory argued a ground launch of a nuclear rocket lacked a payload advantage, but boosting a nuclear stage to 50 ... C5-A and Boeing 747, didn’t exist and even when they did, their ability to launch a large rocket was unproven until the Air Force launched a Minuteman missile out of a C5-A in ... atmosphere. This includes UN studies in 1958. However, the amount of radioactive effluents coming from a 10-minute flight to LEO, where the engine begins full power operation above 100,000-feet ...

... sea with 130 persons aboard. First attempt to launch Polaris A-3 missile from ship (U.S.S. Observation Island) failed with missile's veering off course shortly after liftoff, when it was ... 1963 6 Apr 7 1963 7 Apr 8 1963 8 Apr 9 1963 9 Apr 10 1963 10 Apr 11 1963 11 Apr 12 1963 12 Apr 13 1963 13 Apr 14 ...

Media:1959-02-10_Missile_Development_and_Space_Sciences.pdf Missile Development & Space Sciences Hearings Before Committee On Science And Astronautics U.S. House Of Representatives 86th Congress Feb. 10th 1959 - Rear Adm. J.T. Hayward, Capt. E.O. Wagner, Comdr. Irvin G. Peters

... ,400 fps. Preliminary data indicated the vehicle and payload performed satisfactorily; the flight lasted about 10 min. and impact occurred approximately 650 mi. east of Bermuda. Flight measurements, telemetered to ground ... 1963, FAA statistics showed. This was almost double the 16.8 million operations 10 years ago and was a 10% gain over the 28.2 million operations in 1962. ''(FAA Release 64 33 ... 1964 6 Apr 7 1964 7 Apr 8 1964 8 Apr 9 1964 9 Apr 10 1964 10 Apr 11 1964 11 Apr 12 1964 12 Apr 13 1964 13 Apr 14 ...

... -million decrease (to $109.6 mil-lion) for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project and a $10-million decrease (to $165.2 million) in development, test, and mission operations. Changes in facility ... increase of $4 million, to $10.04 million for construction of the infrared telescope facility in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The Committee also requested that NASA make a scientific and technological inventory of ...

... use of the computerized mounting system was the first without a human in the control cycle. ''(ASFC Release OIP 174.74)'' 10-12 September: California Institute of Technology scientist Charles T. Kowal discovered a possible 13th moon of Jupiter. In photos taken with the Hale Observatories' 122-cm Schmidt telescope at Mount Palomar, Calif., Kowal detected a 10- to 16-km moon as a pinpoint of reflected light 11 million km from the planet. Photos taken 22 ...

... 52-mm-dia by 15-m long tow rope from a tray located in the booster's forward skirt. The tests employed a 10-m Saturn S-II-stage adapter ring, to which the parachute lines were attached. A crane hoisted the adapter ring until the stress ... Senator Joseph M. Montoya, who was expected to seek reelection. (W Post, 10 Sept 75) The appearance of a supernova on 5 July 1054 had been recorded in primitive art by ancient ...

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