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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

Image:Explorer16.jpg 200px Explorer 16 satellite Category:Spacecraft

USAF DISCOVERER XVI successfully launched with new payload, but failed to go into polar orbit. October 1960 October ...

... landing were of excellent quality. After collecting lunar samples and performing other undisclosed experiments, Luna XVI lifted off from moon. It had spent 26 hrs 25 min on lunar surface. Tans ... containing lunar samples was recovered by helicopter for delivery to Soviet Academy of Sciences. Luna XVI was first unmanned spacecraft to land on moon and return to earth with lunar samples ...

... vacuum chamber at NAA’S Rocketdyne Propulsion Field Laboratory. ''(MSFC Historian, 5/22/63)'' EXPLORER XVI meteoroid detector satellite recorded 16 punctures by meteoroids during its first 29 days in orbit ... meteoroid research programs in NASA office of Advanced Research and Technology, said that with EXPLORER XVI “we have established conclusively that there are micrometeoroids out there which can penetrate thin surfaces ...

... .S.R. space talks was taken by Soviet Academy of Sciences hosts to see Luna XVI lunar samples at Moscow geochemical institute before delegation departed for U.S. Academy President Mstislav ... .5 oz) of lunar soil picked up by unmanned Luna XVI during Sept. 1224 mission. At Moscow press conference on Luna XVI Academician Keldysh said Soviet scientists would continue to emphasize unmanned ...

Lunar samples returned by U.S.S.R.'s Luna XVI (launched Sept. 12) contained less titanium and zirconium oxide and more ferric oxide than Apollo ... of space originated inert gases" but in overall composition the Luna XVI samples more closely resembled those from Apollo 12 . Luna XVI material was fragmented basaltic type containing 70 chemical elements; granularity ...

... data On July 25, 1963. Throughout its 71/2 months Of transmitting useful data, EXPLORER XVI fulfilled all its primary objectives. The satellite reported these results (One mil equals 1,000th ...

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