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... operations. Orbital’s proven spacecraft bus, LEOStar 2TM, would provide the design for the GEMS bus. GEMS would be the eighth satellite modeled after LEOStar 2 and the fifth SMEX satellite to ... platform. Previous space-based x-ray observatories had been insensitive to polarization but, for the GEMS mission, Orbital planned to design the first observatory able to measure x-ray polarization systematically ...

... major raw materials of the universe, interstellar dust grains, known as GEMS (glass with embedded metal and sulfides). Scientists collected GEMS, which they believed were left from a passing comet's wake, from a NASA U-2 airplane several miles above Earth. The GEMS were rare-only one or two were collected per hour of U-2 flight time ...

... pilot-engineer-experi­menter for up to 34 hr weightless flight before returning to earth. Gem­ini program announced in 1961 had demonstrated work could be per­formed in orbit outside ... , geology, meteorology, and physics. Seven rendez­vous techniques and nine dockings had been accomplished during Gem­ini. More than 2,000 hr manned spaceflight experience gained through Mercury and Gemini had ...

... winning proposals were the Interface Region Imaging Spectrography (IRIS) and the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism ( GEMS ). With Alan M. Title of Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, California, as ... . Swank of NASA’s GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland, would serve as Principal Investigator of the GEMS mission, designed to study the bending of space and curving of light in regions of ...

... ends fit over the shoulders ''(Jones, NYT, 10/17/64, 35)'' Hovercraft, also known as GEM's ''(ground effect machines)'' , probably will be regulated by Coast Guard, Civil Aeronautics Board, and ...

... a wrist watch, wedding ring set, gold brooch set, ring, three wedding diamonds, a moonstone gem, identification bracelet, and three Apollo 17 gold commemorative medals. Schmitt had carried eight moon pins ...

... Aerospace of Magna, Utah, a contract to continue production of graphite epoxy solid rocket motors (GEMS) for the Delta II expendable launch vehicle. (PR newswire, Mar 28/91) Don Haley, spokesman ...

... Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) activities at Kyushu Tokai University are reported. 1. A direction of Beta Gem was monitored totally 75 minutes from December 16 to 20, 1999 using Kiso and Fuji ...

... Space Flight Medal (2007, 2010), NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2010), NASA Go the Extra Mile (GEM) Award (2001), NASA Superior Accomplishment Award (2000), Outstanding Doctoral Student Award in Chemistry from UC ...

... contributions (1999), Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award, "Outstanding Technical Contribution" (1995), Graduate Engineering Minority Fellow (GEM) (1985), and Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society member. Other Information Jan-11 :Category ...

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