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Image:Discoverer13.jpg 200px Discoverer XIII satellite being presented to President Eisenhower Category:Spacecraft

... DISCOVERER: THE STORY OF A SATELLITE''' by Chester, M. and S. B. Kramer ''New York, 1960: ... written for the younger reader, the book provides a good text-pictorial account of the Discoverer program, the only one available in the book literature. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated ...

Image:Discoverer14.jpg 200px Discoverer XIV satellite Category:Spacecraft

... DISCOVERER XIII launched successfully into a polar orbit. August 1960 August Aug 1 1960 1 Aug 2 ...

First manmade object recovered from an orbiting satellite, the 85-pound instrumented capsule of DISCOVERER XIII recovered from the ocean off Hawaii after 16 orbits. Silken 50-star American flag it ...

... , 1/3/67,1)'' Philadelphia Inquirer praised success of U.S.S.R.'s Luna XIII and urged that U.S. continue its intensive lunar-landing program : "Space treaty or no ... idea, the US. has to try to do better than the Soviet Union's Luna XIII . . . . "No one can guess for certain what strategic role it the moon might play if ... enable it to deny the use of space to the rest of the world. " Luna XIII has chalked up a meaningful achievement for the Russian space program. Americans should not be ...

... -like covering opened, its antenna opened, and radio transmissions began 18 hrs. after touchdown, LUNA XIII began photographing a panorama of the moon's surface. Pictures showed barren, heavily pitted landscape ... about 25 per cent of electrically-charged particles which struck it. Tass commented on LUNA XIII 's successful mission: "There is no doubt now that it is these cosmic stations that ...

... Vela nuclear-detection satellites, 7 Orbiting Vehicle research satellites, Tacsat I tactical comsat, Egrs XIII (Secor XIII) geodetic satellite (launched by NASA), and U.K.'s Skynet A comsat (launched by NASA ...

Soviet news agency Tass announced launching of Cosmos XIII (apogee: 209 mi.; perigee: 127 mi.; inclination to equator: 64° 58'; period: 89.77 min.). ... . In response to questions, they said that women sometimes have "physical superiority over men." COSMOS XIII was launched after 89 days of no announced Soviet space flight activity, longest period of ...

... .3-min period, and 80.1° inclination. Nimbus III carried USA's Egrs XIII (also called Secor XIII) Sequential Collation of Range satellite as secondary payload on Agena 2nd stage and injected ...

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