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... engineer? '''Beckett:''' Yes. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' And began working on the Nike Hercules missile? '''Beckett:''' Well, I had very little to do with Nike Hercules. Really, again, I was in a support function. What we ... equipment in these large, huge Quonset-type huts. So that was my job. And on Nike Hercules, most of that testing was done before I came back. I came back in ’59 ... and it blows it up or it cuts off the power anyway. Well, with the Nike Hercules, they had problems in their wings. They had primer cords that would go out to ...

Army Nike-Zeus antimissile missile successfully intercepted a Nike-Hercules missile flying at over 3,000 miles per hour over White Sands Missile Range , while another Nike-Zeus made highest flight to date from Point Mugu and another Nike-Zeus ...

... schedule.; ground instrumentation measured sound energy from exploding grenades and recorded rocket position during flight. Nike-Cajun from Wallops Island performed unsatisfactorily, reaching altitude of only 31.8 mi. instead of ... , to handle information on flight status, command control, navigation, and program sequences. . . . " U.S. Army Nike-Hercules missile exploded over McGregor Missile Range, Tex., killing French officer and injuring four other persons ...

... six Army missiles at White Sands Missile Range : Honest John , Little John , Sergeant , Hawk , Nike-Hercules , and Nike-Zeus . ''(M&R, 6/10/63, 12)'' In commencement address at Mundelein College, Chicago, AEC ...

... development, $5 million less than NASA asked for. Army announced that Nike-Zeus antimissile missile had intercepted 3,000-mph Nike-Hercules missile in test over White Sands. France carried out six successful ...

... altitude. Rocket and instrumentation performed satisfactorily. ''(NASA Rpt. SRL)'' Two series of coordinated NASA Nike-Cajun sounding rockets were launched from NASA Wallops Station , Churchill Research Range , Point Barrow, ... Kilston had a magnitude of plus 10.6 and could be seen in the constellation Hercules, apparently moving southeast. ''(AP, NYT, 8/10/66, 5; AP, Wash. Post, 8/10/ ...

... antimissile missile. The long-range Zeus was one of the two interceptor missiles in the Nike-X system; it would employ two solid propellant motors and carry a nuclear warhead. ''(DOD ... . Alcock (and named after him), the 10th-magnitude comet appeared as part of the constellation Hercules. ''(AP, Wash. Post, 9/28/65, Al)'' Gen. Bernard A. Schriever outlined examples of the ...

... pulse rhythm in x-ray pulsar was reported by Washington Post. Pulsar discovered in constellation Hercules by Uhuru in November 1971 pulsed for 9 days; then stopped pulsing for 27 days ... that second pulsar overwhelmed first for 27 out of 36 days. Second possibility was that Hercules pulsar was outermost of two stars circling third star in egg-shaped orbits and that eccentric orbits and eclipsing behavior of second orbiting star kept Hercules pulsar hidden from earth three fourths of time. Third and most likely possibility was that ...

... -135N Apollo Range Instrumentation aircraft. With complex electronic instrumenta­tion, Air Force Eastern Test Range Hercules had supported hundreds of Cape Kennedy space and missile launches, including Atlas, Titan, Po­laris ...

... ; (8) Hand-held, earth-oriented, Real-time, Cooperative, User-friendly, Location-targeting and Environmental System (HERCULES), a Naval Research Lab (NRL) experiment to enable a Shuttle astrionaut to point a camera ... (FARE); Hand-held, Earth-oriented, Real-time, Cooperative, User-friendly, Location-targeting and Environmental System (HERCULES); Microencapsulation in Space (MIS)-1; Radiation Monitoring Equipment (RME) III; Spare Tissue Loss (STL); Visual ...

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