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... nuclear-electric power unit Snap-50/Spur A 300-1,000 kw power unit capable of 10,000-hr. unattended operation, Snap-50/Spur would be unification of two existing projects: AEC’s Snap (system for nuclear auxiliary power) and USAF’s Spur (space power unit reactor). Unit could ...

... Power Unit Reactor ''(Spur)'' system. Spur was one of two elements in the Snap-50/Spur system-Snap-50, under development for AEC by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, being the energy producing reactor, and Spur, the portion which converted ...

... and Snap-50/Spur (nuclear electric power plant) program. Rochen was formerly assigned to NASA Office of Advanced Research and Technology, Nuclear Systems Directorate, where he was NASA program manager for Snap-8 project ...

... profile features three steps: the cargo plane taking the stage to ~50,000-feet, whereupon it is discharged from the plane. Two ... rockets into our bones. So it’s conceptual thinking to spur our vision and creativity to develop much better numbers. For the ... the weapons casing or within the Mark-6. Second, the early SNAPs, which used radioactive materials such as plutonium-238 to produce electricity ...

... They chose to go to another spot ; we were looking for the Spur Crater, because we were thinking this crater might have ejected some ... finally. They saw that. They went over there, which was another 50 meters or something from where they were. That’s where they ... processed. We called it the SNAP Sterile Nitrogen Atmosphere Processing line. I don’t even know what the SNAP stood for. It was an ...

... the salinity measurements NASA's Aquarius instrument has been collecting from space since August 2011. SPURS scientists aboard the research vessel Knorr leave Sept. 6 from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ... the salt concentration of its surface waters. Scientists studying the salinity records of the past 50 years say they already see the footprint of an increase in the speed of the ...

... answer. At that point, if you try and ad lib and invent answers in the spur of the moment, you're dead. Now, I would never do that. I'd say ... such a thing. It was called a SNAP line, and I don't know what SNAP stands for anymore. You'll have to look it up. SNAP. “Atmospheric Pressure” may be the last ...

... stirred up so much dust that landing site had been completely obscured from 15-m (50-ft) altitude to touchdown: "We flew IFR from then on down." Stand-up extravehicular activity ... found to be completely operational. EVA-2 traverse included stops at Spur Crater, Dune Crater, Hadley Plains, and area between Spur and Window craters. Numerous samples and photos were obtained and TV ... Module LM liftoff, and reentered Lunar Module LM at 168:08 GET, after 4 hrs 50 min-bringing total EVA time to 18 hrs 35 min. While Lunar Module LM was ...

... as seen from the earth by a factor of 1,000. The closest pictures were snapped 2.3 sec. before impact, at 10.7° south latitude and 203¦ longItude, 68 hrs ... and partial failures in our efforts to send probes to the moon. This success should spur us on to added effort in the future. . . . On behalf of a grateful nation, let ...

... Dr. Fred Hoyle at American Physical Society meeting in New York. Dr. Shklovsky discovered that spur-like structures above and below the galaxy are connected in a single figure-8 ... for NASA electronics research center. NASA'S Electronics Site Selection Committee had reviewed presentations by 50 groups representing 19 geographical areas, in accordance with P.L. 88­113 (NASA Authorization ...

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