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... to last about three and a half days, according to Tass announcement. ''(Tass, 6/8/65)'' Snap-8 , NASA-AEC experimental reactor, had run continuously at power for 209 days, thereby completing the ... operation of a nuclear reactor. Built by Atomics International Div. of North American Aviation , Inc., Snap-8 began power operation in November 1963, ran 91% of the total time available, and produced ...

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... United Arab Republic, Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia, Argentina, Jordan, Indonesia, and Ceylon. ''(Av. Wk., 2/8/65, 25)'' The world's first nuclear-powered weather station, designated Navy Oceanographic and Meteorological ... of Mexico. Developed by the Navy, the unattended station was powered by the AEC generator, Snap-7D. ''(NYT, 2/14/65, 90)'' A Polaris A-3 launched from the nuclear submarine ...

... and flew types of enormously large solid-propellant (gunpowder) rockets fitted with wings that snapped out, like a pocket knife, at peak altitude and gently caused each of ... ,” pp. 135-136; (Rudolf Nebel), “Die Magdeburger Pilotenrakete ” ''Raketenflug – Mitteilungen des Raketenfluplatzes Berlin'', Nr. 8, April 1933, ''passim'' (pp. 1-4). note 5 “Man-Carrying Rocket Planned,” ...

... by Capt. Joe H. Engle (USAF) to maximum speed of 3,477 mph (mach 4.8) and altitude of more than 33 mi. in test to prepare the pilot for future ... lines snapped, and engineers had to trigger the reserve ringsail parachute to lower the vehicle safely to the water's surface. ''(Houston Post, 4/9/64; MSC Roundup, 4/15/64, 8 ... "provide information about more remote areas of space we know little about." ''(Balt. Sun, 4/8/64)'' NASA Technology Utilization Division and the Food and Drug Administration reported that preliminary experiments ...

... being conducted with Explorer XXII , XXVII, and XXIX, and two French satellites. ''(Kehoe, W Post, 8/8/68, Fl)'' ComSatCorp , on behalf of INTELSAT, issued RFP for aeronautical com­munications satellites for ... five-year life for em­placement in synchronous equatorial orbit. ''(ComSatCorp Release 68-38)'' August 8-9: Two NASA Nike-Tomahawk sounding rockets launched from NASA Wallops Station reached 178-mi ...

... , and lunar landing crew; better radiation protection; improved safety factor; reduced cost. ''(M&R, 3/8/65, 6)'' California's Gov. Edmund G. Brown, in his second Annual Economic Report to ... manpower from defense and aerospace production to other areas." ''(AP, L.A. Herald-Examiner, 3/8/65)'' France announced successful launching in the Sahara of the Emeraude stage of the Diamant ... would be disastrous. ''(Clark, NYT, 3/9/65; Clark, NYT, 3/10/65, 69)'' March 8-12: "Efficiency and Perfection through People" was objective of AFSC's Internal Zero Defects Program ...

... most apparent in the offspring of flies exposed to actual spaceflight conditions. ''(Dubinin, Bakinskiy rabochiy, 8/8/65, 4)'' NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Director Dr. Robert R. Gilruth received the China-Burma ... contributed the most during the past year to the American way of life." ''(Houston Chron., 8/8/65)'' Indonesia test-fired a research rocket from a site "somewhere in Indonesia," Djakarta radio ...

... on the April 24 crash-landing which resulted in Cosmonaut Komarov's death. ''(Newsweek, 5/8/67)'' U.S.S.R. was completing construction of several ground stations for use with ... stations simultaneously; Molniya I's could reach only one at a time. ''(Av Wk, 5/8/67,13)'' "Despite the high cost and dangers in exploring space, tragically dramatized by the ... : 57% favored manned planetary expeditions; 31% opposed them; and 12% were undecided. ''(Natl Obs, 5/8/67)'' Earth had been cooling off rapidly since 1950 because of accumulation of atmospheric dust ...

... Sporadic-E) , electron collision frequency, electron temperature, and positive ion densities of species in the 8-to 60-a.m.u. range. Rocket and instrumentation performed satisfactorily, and excellent results were ... -billion NASA FY 1968 authorization bill (S. 1296), completing congressional action on the authorization. ''(CR, 8/8/67, H10054-60)'' NASA had modified TRW Systems ' $34.7-million contract for Orbiting Geophysical ...

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