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File:Wallops Island Missile Launch Facility in the 1960.mp4 Category:Movie

Clouds usually cover up a lot of what you can see of the Earth from space. When you watch the TV weather programs, the presenters show us where the clouds are. But underneath the clouds, the US looks just like it does on a map, bounded by the oceans. Of course, you cannot see any lines that show where the state boundaries are. You cannot even see where the boundaries with Mexico and Canada are. ...

... Force Base down through the Bahamas, through Grand Turk down to Puerto Rico, Antigua and Ascension Islands. The communications in those days was a submarine cable that went from Patrick Air Force ... would be a good idea that they move Pete Clements to Ascension Island to be the commander of that activity of the Ascension Islands. Ascension Island, if you're not familiar with it, is way south ...

... conducted three grenade experiments with Nike-Cajun sounding rockets launched from Wallops Island, Va .; Fort Churchill , Canada; and Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, part of current series to gather comparative data on high-altitude winds and atmospheric tem­peratures at widely separated locations. At Wallops Island, Nike-Cajun ...

... 64-190)'' Nike-Cajun sounding rocket with upper atmosphere grenade experiment was launched from Wallops Island to 73-mi. altitude, and series of 12 grenades was ejected and detonated at intervals ... conducted by NASA GSFC from Wallops Island , Fort Churchill Research Range , and Ascension Island, with Sweden joining the group for this series. The Fort Churchill and Ascension Island launchings were canceled because of weather conditions ...

... , 2/4/64)'' Nike-Cajun sounding rocket was launched from Wallops Island, Va., in coordination with Nike-Apache launch at Ascension Island, third set in current NASA series to obtain data on high ... at altitudes ranging up to 55 mi. The Wallops experiment used grenade payload; for the Ascension experiment, the grenade payload was replaced with pitot-static probe to measure densities, pressures, and ...

... . said one mile of coaxial cable had been laid in two-foot-deep trench across Ascension Island in South Atlantic Ocean to link two an­tennas-30-ft-dia parabolic reflector for ... scientific satellites and Deep Space Network ''(DSN)'' facili­ties to support lunar and planetary probes. Ascension Island cable was "final link" in two million miles of NASA Communications ''(NASCOM)''. ''(NASA Release 68 ...

... )'' August 15-16: Coordinated series of four NASA sounding rocket launches was conducted at Wallops Island, Va .; Ascension Island; and Kronogard , Sweden. A Nike-Cajun was launched from each range with exploding grenade ... , wind, density, and pressure data. Peak altitudes: rocket launched from Wallops, 75.9 mi. ; from Ascension, 77 mi.; and from Kronogard, 84 mi. The fourth experiment was a Nike-Apache launched ...

... at widely separated locations, NASA launched three Nike-Cajun sounding rockets at Wallops Island , Fort Churchill, and Ascension Island. The rocket payloads ejected 12 grenades which detonated at intervals up to 55-mi. altitude. ''(Wallops Release 64-16)'' NASA Nike-Apache sounding rocket was launched from Wallops Island, Va ...

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