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... reentered Mar. 6. ''(Pres Rep 1967; Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC SSR, 3/ 15/67)'' Phoebus IB reactor was operated for 45 min-30 min at 1,500-mw design power-in ... on reactor-including test conditions to be found in 5,000-mw Phoebus 2, slated for test late this year. Phoebus series would provide advanced technology for solid-core graphite rocket reactors ...

... post-Apollo projects with any degree of certainty. NASA has attempted production of the Saturn IB and Saturn V at the rate of two each per year. Frankly, this rate is ... consist­ing of high-temperature fuel capsules integrated into safe flight pack­age. Second Phoebus test reactor, Phoebus-2A, was being assembled at Nuclear Rocket Development Station in Nevada; testing was scheduled ...

... for design and development of a liquid-hydroGen. re-generatively cooled exhaust nozzle for the Phoebus nuclear rocket reactor test program. First phase of the contract would include a four-month ... 179,000 contract for alterations to Launch Complex 34 , Cape Kennedy , to accommodate the Saturn IB rocket, Army Corps of Engineers made the award. ''(AP, Miami Her., 2/3/65)'' ...

... when the facility liquid hydrogen supply was unexpectedly exhausted. Test was part of NASA-AEC Phoebus program to extend graphite reactor technology developed under the Kiwi series to higher power ... Col. C. H. Bolender (USAF) as Mission Director for the first and second Apollo/ Saturn IB flights. Thompson and Bolender were assigned to the Mission Operations Organization in the Office ...

... AFB, Calif. ''(Wash. Post, 10/13/64; AP, NYT, 10/13/64, 31)'' Details of Phoebus -powered nuclear rocket engine, as described by Harold B. Finger , Director of NASA-AEC Space ... )'' The second-generation nuclear rocket would have 250,000-lb. thrust, using 5,000-megawatt Phoebus reactor. In clustered formation, the engines could launch manned space-craft out of earth orbit ... Mars trajectory. Ground-test firings of first-generation ''(low-power)'' Phoebus would be conducted in 1965-66, and tests of the heavier Phoebus reactor in 1967. ''(M&R, 10/12/64, 17 ...

... and the Saturn launch vehicles. There were static firings of engines for the various Saturn IB and Saturn V stages, highlighted by full-duration firing of all three Saturn V stages ... rocket motor, In nuclear rocket technology, three Nerva reactor experiments were completed and the new Phoebus advanced graphite reactor test program was begun. The success of a 2,600-hr. ion ...

... Vandenberg AFB . In joint NASA-AEC effort, propulsion technology highlights included power tests of Phoebus 2A nuclear reactor, first tests of cold-flow test engine in flight configuration in ... FY 1969. Cutbacks included "sharply limited and deferred" Apollo Applications program, end to Saturn IB and V booster production, 50% cut in advanced mission studies, reduced lunar and planetary ...

... July 4. ''(SBD, 6/27/68, 286; GSFC SSR, 6/30/68, 7/15/68)'' Phoebus 2A nuclear rocket reactor was successfully tested by NASA and AEC at Jackass Flats, Nev ... ''(SM)'' had been mated in KSC altitude chamber to confirm com­patible operation systems. Saturn IB launch vehicle 2nd-stage engine was being modified to strengthen propellant feed lines to augmented ...

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