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Nike-Asp test flight from Navy LSD ''Point Defiance'' near Puka Island reached 800,000 feet, the highest altitude ever reached by ship-launched rocket, in preliminary test of Nike-Asp for use in International Geophysical year IGY solar eclipse studies.

Three sounding rockets were launched from NASA’s Wallops Station , Va.: The first, a Nike-Apache , was launched at 7:40 PM (EDT), with a 70-lb. payload containing a ... second, a Nike-Cajun , was launched at 8:05 PM, consisted of 11 explosive charges and a balloon, released from 25 miles to 64 miles altitude; the third, a Nike-Asp, was launched ...

NASA launched a Nike-Cajun sounding rocket from Wallops Station , Va., which detonated 12 grenades from 25 to 57 mi. altitude. Fifteen minutes later a Nike-Asp sounding rocket was launched. It released ...

... sodium-vapor cloud experiment from NASA Wallops Station was not successful because second stage of Nike-Asp launch vehicle failed to perform properly. (Wallops Release 63-16; M&R 2/25/63 ...

... Edwards, Calif. This was the first flight of X-15 with full throttle. NASA fired Nike-Asp rocket carrying aluminum thermite and sodium pellets to an altitude of 34 miles, one of ...

Two-stage Nike-Asp fired from Naval Missile Facility, Point Arguello, the first of 12 designed to record radiation 150 miles up and also the first ballistic missile fired from this new facility.

First of NIKE-ASP sounding rockets to provide geophysical information on wind activity between 50 and 150 miles high was launched successfully from NASA. Wallops Station. Media:MAR-1959-08-17.pdf Missiles & Rockets Aug 17 1959

Nike-Asp sounding rocket fired from NASA Wallops Station emitted sodium vapor at 50-mile altitude to 150 miles, revealing powerful windshear effects. NASA-DOD memorandum of understanding signed providing for interim management of Project Saturn pending its formal transfer to NASA.

Second sodium-vapor-trail experiment in Nike-Asp launch from Wallops Island was not successful. In a memorandum to the members of the ...

... NASA support of DOD missile programs: "Included in this work are such as Pershing , Atlas, Nike, Nike-Zeus , Eagle, GAR-9 and Skybolt. The NASA contributions have been in two areas, one ... at rates of 3 to 4 mils per kilowatt hour." Navy launched solid-propellant Terrier-Asp IV sounding rocket from Point Arguello in successful first flight test. Theodore Shabad, Moscow correspondent ...

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