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... defense of the U.S.; and increase the total airlift and sealift capability. ''(Testimony)'' 5-22 February: Mariner 10 , launched 3 Nov. 1973, passed within 5800 km of Venus-within 15 km of the planned aim point-at 1:01 pm EDT 5 Feb. The encounter sequence was ... Venus cloud deck, possibly present in droplets of sulfuric acid as well as water vapor. Mariner 10 found no evidence of deuterium on the planet, indicating that the hydrogen had originated ...

... failed when fairing did not jettison, preventing solar panel deployment. The Agena stage pushed the MARINER In into a parking orbit around the earth and coasted to the proper position for ... be properly pointed. In addition to TV equipment for taking pictures of the Martian surface, MARINER III carried instruments to study radiation, space dust, and magnetic forces near Mars and in ... approved the retirement of Marine Col. John H. Glenn , Jr. The retirement was set for Jan. 1. ''(N.Y. Her. Trib., 11/5/64; NYT, 11/5/64, 11 )'' November 5-6: NASA launched ...

... ft. ''(Av Wk 12/18/67, 54-5; NAA/PIO)'' October 5-6: Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL engineers conducted series of exercises with NASA's MARINER IV spacecraft (launched Nov. 28, 1964) to demonstrate techniques for controlling Mariner V (launched June 14 ...

... produced three changes in MARINER IV's flight path: ''(1)'' the Mars fly-by from 151,000 mi. in front of Mars to a closest approach of 5,400 mi. behind Mars ... Canopus reacquisition. A second midcourse maneuver would not be required. The midcourse rocket used by MARINER IV was the first to be used by this country that was capable of a ... Release 64-310; Witkin, NYT, 12/6/64, 67; Miles, Wash. Post, 12/6/64)'' “ Mariner 4 On Trip to Mars” article in the Illustrated London News December 1964 December Dec ...

... John R. Casani, former manager of JPL 's Guidance and Control Division. While serving as Mariner Jupiter/Saturn project manager, Schurmeier had also acted as Deputy Assistant Laboratory Director for Flight ... owner, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His estate was estimated to be worth between $1.5 and 2 billion. Newspaper accounts of his wealth and years of withdrawal from public contact ...

... competing pres­sures from scientists, universities, industry, Congress, maybe even tax­payers." ''(WSJ, 12/5/68)'' NASA Deputy Administrator for Space Sciences and Applications Oran W. Nicks described applications ... launches of 6,000-lb spacecraft consisting of Surveyor-type soft landers mated to Mariner 1971 class Mars orbiters in mid-1973, in Project Viking, to obtain scientific information ...

... MARINER IV was performing normally after nearly 10 weeks in space, NASA announced. At 9 a. ... ,478 mph relative to earth and 65,670 mph relative to the sun, Instruments aboard MARINER IV Mars probe detected a solar flare and the spacecraft telemetered data to a tracking ... would add water to the food from their drinking water supply. ''(Schefter, Houston Chron., 2/5/65)'' National Science Foundation announced that a new radio technique might make it possible to ...

... in October or November 1973, were released by NASA. Jet Propulsion Laboratory would manage Mariner Venus mission project for NASA Office of Space Science. Project would include first use ... competition with NR subcontractors for whom NR might already have preference. ''(Andelman, NYT, 9/5/72, 3)'' Data from geomagnetic sensors near multimegaton nuclear explosion Cannikin detonated on Amchitka ...

... would continue to be developed. Skylab , space shuttle , Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), Viking , Mariner Jupiter-Saturn mission, and many applications and aeronautics projects would be retained to continue ... expected the Tu-144 to be operational in 1975. ''(Donaldson, London Daily Telegraph, 1/5/73)'' The Dept. of Defense had recommended expansion of the U.S. Minuteman ...

... by atmospheric dosing from a rocket­borne electron source. ''(DOD Release 113-73)'' March 5-8: NASA's Fourth Annual Lunar Science Conference, at Johnson Space Center , was attended ... in agriculture and forestry, mineral resources and geology, environ­mental surveys, land-use mapping, and marine surveys. Dr. Marian Baumgardner, scientist at the Purdue Univ. Laboratory for the Applications of ...

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