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... could not be established on February 27. The fourth firing of an advanced Polaris A-2, and the first from a ship, was made by the U.S.S. Observation Island as she cruised ... Advisory Committee on Project Mercury visited Atlantic Missile Range for a briefing. March 1961 March Mar 1 1961 1 Mar 2 1961 2 Mar 3 1961 3 Mar 4 1961 4 Mar 5 ...

... , and communicate via a satellite while cruising at sea, was built by Navy to complement two Army-developed communications terminals on East and West Coasts. ''( AIAA Booster, 7/2/64, 2)'' Engineers proposed ... be operational by 1975. ''(Houston Chron., 7/3/64)'' Final Polaris A-3 in test program was launched from Cape Kennedy . Advanced Polaris 2,500-mi- flight was 41st in program begun in summer 1962. ''(M&R, 7/13/64, 14)'' July 1964 July Jul 1 1964 1 Jul 2 1964 2 Jul 3 ...

... agencies "are engaged or have a direct interest in the seas... ." ''(CR, 2/2/65, 1754-57)'' R. E. Clarson. Inc., of St. Petersburg, Fla., was awarded a $2,179,000 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 ... ,000 mi. in the Pacific southwest of Hawaii. ''(UPI, Wash, Daily News, 2/2/65; UPI, Wash. Post, 2/3/65)'' A brightly illuminated object in the sky near Langley AFB, Va., was widely ...

... . Fletcher , Administrator of NASA, in announcing the new plan. (W1 Post, 2 July 76, A-2; W Star, 2 July 76, A-8) A NY Times editorial mentioned "super technology" in the taking and transmitting of ... of an area west of the previously selected landing point. (W Post, 8 July 76, A-2) An altered orbit put Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 over an area called Plateau of ... the plateau to be "twice as smooth as the plains." (W Post, 7 July 76, A-2) A JPL spokesman said preliminary pictures of another landing site proposed for Viking spacecraft 1 Viking ...

... presence of life on Mars until results from Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 were in. Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 was on its way to a landing scheduled for 3 Septa on Utopia Planitia (the ... food, water, or air needed to survive. (Thomas O'Toole, W Post, 3 Sept 76, A-2) Marshall Space Flight Center announced that the Space Div. of Rockwell Intl. Corp. at Palmdale ... better resources assessment and management, NOAA said. On 19 July, Landsat-1 had passed over a selected study area, sending multispectral scanner data to Goddard Space Flight Center ; the data tapes ...

... , it had had to wait until the next fiscal year for approval. (W Post, Dec 2/77, A-2) Dryden Flight Research Center reported that Ralph "Buzz" Sawyer of its flight systems laboratory had made a "paper airplane" to test a theory of reducing elevator flutter and had come up with a ... , Dec 2/77, 4) DFRC reported it had made further study of the effect of insects sticking to the leading edges of aircraft wings see A&A76, Nov. 23 by flying a small ...

Wire services reported that an explosion that damaged a Space Shuttle engine during test firing at Bay St. Louis, Miss., on December 27 might ... . Further tests would await determining the cause of the accident-apparently failure of a valve in a high-pressure pump feeding oxygen to a combustion chamber. The engine had completed 255 seconds of ... not entirely successful." (NY Times, Jan 2/79 UPI , A-13; W Post, Jan 4/79 AP , A-2) 1979 January 1979 January Jan 1 1979 1 Jan 2 1979 2 Jan 3 1979 3 Jan ...

... Solar Challenger , Dr. Paul MacCready's lightweight high-strength plastic-and-balsa craft driven by a 2.75-hp motor, took off December 3 about 1:00 p.m. from an airport ... . and European Spacelab mission and payload specialists to give them a better idea of the scientific objectives and let them operate 2 of the 11 French experiments. The first Spacelab payload would be launched in June 1983. PICPAB (phenomena induced by charged-particle beams), a plasma-physics experiment under ...

... $250,000 to make the telescope useful into the 21st century. (LA Times, Aug 2/93) A Titan 4 rocket carrying an expensive military spy satellite system exploded minutes after liftoff from ... Force Base . This, the first failure of the four-year-old Titan 4 program, was a $2-billion accident, said John Pike, director of the space policy project at the Federation of ... Satellite System ( TDRSS ). The system consists of several satellites plus a ground station at White Sands, New Mexico. (Onset Magazine, Aug 2/93) July 1993 July August 1993 August Aug 1 1993 ...

... the earth on a line perpendicular to the earth's surface. The OSTA-1 payload consisted of (1) a shuttle imaging radar-A (SIR-A), (2) a shuttle multispectral infrared radiometer (SMIRR), (3) a feature identification and location experiment (FILE), (4) a measurement of air pollution from satellites (MAPS ...

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