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

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

... . York, Director of Research and Engineering of DOD, were named co-chairmen of the Board. DISCOVERER XV placed into polar orbit. NASA gave bidders briefing to industry representatives on Project Apollo study ...

Recovery capsule of DISCOVERER XV located from aircraft, but bad weather prevented surface pickup before it sank. September 1960 September ...

... the United States, and not the sort of worldwide humiliation they have endured with Luna XV during the American moon landing, and then with the triple Soyuz anti-climax, they will ... )'' Dr. Vesto M. Slipher, astronomer who headed team that discovered planet Pluto in 1930 and discoverer of aurora-like radiations of night sky, died at age 93. He had been director ...

... . J. Victor Lebacqz, Acting Associate Administrator for NASA's Office of Aerospace Technology, described the XV-15 ~ a unique type of aircraft possessing the takeoff, hover, and landing capabilities of a ... -rotor flight research had begun in the 1950s with the Bell XV-3 convertiplane. In 1977 the first of two XV-15s built by Bell Helicopter-Textron had made its maiden flight. The XV-15 had achieved speed and altitude records for its class, receiving multiple awards from national ...

... NASA-Army tilt rotor program," according to a NASA announcement. The Bell Helicopter Textron's XV-15 would undergo a 2-yr flight-testing program scheduled by Ames Research Center and ... operate with less noise than conventional helicopters or turboprop aircraft of comparable size. The first XV-15 would undergo ground and hover tests, then go to ARC for testing in that center's wind tunnel; the second XV-15 would undergo initial envelope-expansion flight tests at Bell's Arlington, Tex., facility beginning ...

... next few years. Dr. Paine praised U.S.S.R.'s cooperation in providing Luna XV information to Astronaut Frank Borman see July 18 . He also said if Astronaut Neil A ... beware of this worship." ''(Schmick, 13 Sun, 7/21/69, A4)'' Tass announced that Luna XV was still functioning normally in lunar orbit with 109.4-km (68-mi) apolune, 16 ... ° inclination. Sir Bernard Lovell , Director of U.K.'s Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, said Luna XV had conducted two midcourse corrections and speculated that spacecraft was preparing either to land or ...

... -238) Calspan Corp. of Buffalo, N.Y., reported it was continuing technical work on the XV-15 tilt-rotor research aircraft from Bell Helicopter Textron that made its maiden flight earlier ... a $678 000 contract to design and fabricate the automatic flight-control system for the XV-15, and a $62 000 contract to support ground and flight checkout of the system. NASA's ARC had awarded Calspan a $117 000 contract to study modifications of future XV-15s to adapt the craft for research into its handling qualities. (Calspan News, Nov 77 ...

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