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... 96-235) Nature magazine described equipment problems on HEAO 2 , also called the Einstein observatory, that might end the mission prematurely. Launched in 1978, HEAO 2 carried the first X-ray telescope "as sensitive ... halted three weeks ago when two of the six gyroscopes failed after a temporary blackout. HEAO 2 needed three functioning gyroscopes for positioning. One of the other four was already dead; another ...

... with Earth-based telescopes due to atmospheric interference. With 20 months of operation in orbit, HEAO 3 was the third of its type to perform for more than twice its design ... with West Germany. It had carried low Earth-orbit missions for NASA, such as the HEAO series and commercial and military geosynchronous satellites. ( Lewis Research Center LeRC Release 81-26; NASA ... Release 81-21) May 1981 May June 1981 June Jun 1 1981 1 Jun 2 1981 2 Jun 3 1981 3 Jun 4 1981 4 Jun 5 1981 5 Jun 6 1981 ...

... a space station in the manned flight program"; early development of ERTS, ATS, and HEAO; Grand Tour unmanned flights to distant planets; unmanned Viking Mars landers; Pioneer flights to ... Latham , Apollo program's principal seismic investigator, made through Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. ''(W Star, 9/2/70, A6)'' August 1970 August September 1970 September Sep 1 1970 1 ...

... . Thompson as test pilot. Towed to 13,000-ft. altitude by C-47 aircraft, M-2 glided each time to landing on Rogers Dry Lake bed in a few seconds over ... type enlarged itself by four or five times in the Martian environment. ''(M&R, 9/2/63)'' AFSC announced establishment of field office at NASA Manned Space­craft Center , headed by ... compartment contains environmental life-support system and necessary survival equipment. ''(Cook, Wash. Daily News, 9/2/63)'' Results of Harvard Business School poll of U.S. industrialists on how they viewed ...

... a new technology upon which much of America's future space effort depends . . . ." ''(CR, 12/2/63, 21906 ff.)'' Political Committee of the U.N. General Assembly opened debate on report ... -engine craft designed for short-range and medium-range flights. ''(NIT, 12/3/63)'' December 2-4: Fourth NASA Intercenter Conference on Plasma Physics held at NASA Hq., with participants from ... as from universities and industries. ''(Pro­gram)'' December 1963 December Dec 1 1963 1 Dec 2 1963 2 Dec 3 1963 3 Dec 4 1963 4 Dec 5 1963 5 Dec 6 ...

... because the temperature caused a relay to stick or a component to fail. ''(AP, NYT, 2/3/64)'' Tass announced ELECTRON I and ELECTRON II scientific satellites were continuing their elliptical ... functioning normally and ground stations were receiving scientific data from the satellites. ''(Tass, Krasnaya Zvezda, 2/2/64,1, ATSS-T Trans.)'' 300-ft.-high helium-filled balloon with 550-lb. instrumented ...

... R&D, $3.677 billion; con­struction of facilities, $45 million; and administrative operations, $648.2 million. ''(NASA LAR VII/8)'' S-II 2nd stage for fifth Apollo Saturn V mission ... and poverty-stricken." ''(NASA Release 68-14; WS Release 68-1; India News, 2/2/68, 4; LA Times, 2/3/68; B Sun, 6/30/68)'' Cornell Univ.'s association with Cornell ... projects and Univ.'s expanding program of international studies. ''(Science, 2/2/68, 515)'' February 1968 February Feb 1 1968 1 Feb 2 1968 2 Feb 3 1968 3 Feb 4 1968 4 Feb ...

... requested $4.37 billion. House cut $142.4 million from Apollo Applications program-leaving $252.2 million, $186.4 million less than NASA had requested for orbiting workshop and lunar exploration ... was "example of utilization by an­other department . . . of NASA-developed space technology." ''(CR, 5/2/68, 113229-661; Sehlstedt, B Sun, 5/3/68, 1; Lannan, W Star, 5/3 ... to satellite earth station at Brews­ter Flat, Wash. Facility functioned through Intelsat-II F-2 at 22,300- mi altitude over. Pacific. ''(ComSatCorp Release 68-22)'' NASA Associate Administrator for ...

... . Grew. Data showed no evi­dence of increase in hazard from such "backsplash." ''(Science, 8/2/68, 462-4)'' Univ. of Minnesota scientists J. G. Sparrow and E. P. Ney reported ... earth orbit. "In principle, each satellite could have been identified." ''(Science, 8/2/68, 459-60; W Post, 8/2/68, A10; SBD, 8/5/68, 145)'' NAS and NAE would collaborate ... of Ocean Exploration planned for 1970s, Science reported. ''(Science, 8/2/68, 447)'' August 1968 August Aug 1 1968 1 Aug 2 1968 2 Aug 3 1968 3 Aug 4 1968 4 Aug ...

... construction of two full-scale lifting body research vehicles. The two research vehicles (the M-2 and HL-10 ) were to be used initially by NASA for full-scale wind tunnel ... any kind of a patent procedure which is paid for by federal funds." ''(CR, 6/2/64, 12045)'' The FAA awarded contracts totaling $6 million each to the Boeing Company and ... of $27 in the first few minutes of trading. ''(NYT, 6/3/64, 59)'' June 2-3: New, improved solar cell was described at Conference of Photo-voltaic Specialists by Joseph ...

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