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... Rpt, SRL)'' Snap 10-A , first nuclear reactor to operate in space, was probably shut down prematurely May 16, 1965, because of a spurious command from a decoding device triggered by a voltage regulator failure, AEC reported. Launched April 3 from Vandenberg AFB , with an Atlas-Agena booster, Snap 10-A achieved an 806 ... 1965 5 Nov 6 1965 6 Nov 7 1965 7 Nov 8 1965 8 Nov 9 1965 9 Nov 10 1965 10 Nov 11 1965 11 Nov 12 1965 12 Nov 13 ...

... of flight hardware and two flights in the 1966-67 period. ''(M&R, 11/9/64, 9)'' A scheduled flight of the X-15 rocket ship to test star-tracking cameras was canceled ... U-2 would gather Hi-Cat data at altitudes above 55,000 ft. for developing a worldwide statistical model showing occurrence of clear-air turbulence. ''(AFSC Release 47-30-144)'' Physicists ... proper angle to beam radiation in earth's direction. ''(AP, N.O. Times Picayune, 11/9/64)'' ComSatCorp announced six companies had made summary proposals to provide research data and consultant ...

... the luckiest embarrassments England ever endured. (9) It forced the English to turn their attentions away from the Continent and made them focus on a sphere in which England would eventually make ... Press, Oxford, England, 1944, p. 179; and The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 2, p. 731. (9) A.L. Rowse, The Expansion of Elizabethan England. Cambridge University historian Eric Walker agrees with Rowse ...

... Station Tuesday, June 14. NASA Television will provide live coverage of Cygnus' departure beginning at 9 a.m. EDT. Ground controllers will detach the Cygnus spacecraft, which arrived at the station March ... NASA and Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) will give the command for its 9:30 a.m. release. Five hours after departure, the Saffire-I experiment will take place onboard ... . Cygnus also will release five LEMUR CubeSats from an external deployer June 15, part of a remote sensing satellite constellation that provides global ship tracking and weather monitoring. The vehicle will ...

... its return from space, and talk with team members involved in the recovery operations at 9 a.m. PST Thursday, Jan. 25, at U.S. Naval Base San Diego. In preparation for ... , Partners Discuss Power for Future Space Exploration''' NASA and its partners will host a news conference at noon EST (9 a.m. PST) Thursday, Jan. 18, at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, to discuss a recent experiment involving a new power source that could provide the ...

... worldwide effort." The U.S. National Action Plan is part of the Open Government Partnership, a multilateral initiative to promote transparency, participation and collaboration between governments and citizens. President Obama and ... Mason Peck will visit L'Garde Inc., in Tustin, Calif., on Thursday, March 15, at 9 a.m. PDT. Peck's visit will highlight ways government can partner with small business to ...

... School in Atlanta will have the opportunity to speak with a NASA astronaut living and working aboard the International Space Station at 9 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 10. The 20-minute ...

... = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = James A. McDivitt header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Jun 10 1929 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ... June 7, 1965. Highlights of the mission included a controlled extra-vehicular activity period and a number of experiments. He was commander of Apollo 9 , a 10-day earth orbital flight launched on March ...

... machinery. Snap-8 was one of three projects that had been deleted from the NASA FY 1966 budget request. Mr. Webb said: " . . . in the over-all budgeting . . . the President has a hard ... learned some very significant things. I disassociate it from the other two canceled projects but Snap-8 should have gone on priority." ''(Transcript)'' Six of eight Orbiting Solar Observatory II OSO ... 1965 5 Feb 6 1965 6 Feb 7 1965 7 Feb 8 1965 8 Feb 9 1965 9 Feb 10 1965 10 Feb 11 1965 11 Feb 12 1965 12 Feb 13 ...

... ’s Vet to explain. If you rev up a 570 hp engine, then pop the clutch, you may shatter the clutch plate or snap an axle. So they have to be beefed ... -6 RV for the Titan II. It held the W-53, a 9.2MT warhead. In 1980, a Titan II with a Mark-6/W-53 blew up in its silo. The force of ... . Everything stayed either inside the weapons casing or within the Mark-6. Second, the early SNAPs, which used radioactive materials such as plutonium-238 to produce electricity for payloads, were designed ...

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