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... and Vice President Rockefeller were escorted through the $41-million museum by museum director Michael 1. Collins, who had piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft. At a signal given 18 min previously by the Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 spacecraft in orbit around Mars, a 3-m metal arm was activated to cut a ... ' Kitty Hawk flyer, Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis , the Bell X-1 (first supersonic plane), and the North American X-15 . The problem, said the New York Times, was to design a ...

... . NASA ended the five-year program after having invested nearly US$1 billion in developing a reusable launching vehicle. The X-33 program, contracted to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, had sought ... Milestone in Space Launch Initiative Program; Also Announces No SLI Funding for X-33 or X-34 ,” news release 01-3 1, 1 March 2001; Warren E. Leary, “NASA Ends Project on Rocket Meant ...

... ' Air Force Base. Thanks to the engineers and to the ace pilots who flew the X-15, mountains of new information about hypersonic flight were uncovered. Much of this research was ... , consistently broke every record in the book. Today many of those records still stand. In X-15 - The NASA Mission Reports, extremely rare documents from this amazing program are brought together ... flight reports in the pilots' own words. A unique interactive Virtual Reality model of the X-15 and more. "Data junkies and armchair astronauts will no doubt revel in the minutiae ...

... Hanger E-19490.jpg 300px '''X-15 in Hanger (E-19490)''' Image:X-15 in Flight white.jpg 300px '''X-15A2 in Flight with white ablative coating''' Image:X-15 66672 in Flight Ecn 187.jpg 300px '''X-15 66672 in Flight (ECN 187)''' Image:X-15 100th Flight Ground Crew E-10846.jpg 300px '''X-15 100th Flight Ground Crew (E-10846 ...

... -040B Webpage = Semimajor_Axis = Eccentricity = Inclination = Orbital_Period = Apoapsis = Periapsis = Orbits = Alternate Names = AXAF, Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, CXRO, 25867 Experiments = Nominal Power = 2000.0W Additional Information = http://nssdc.gsfc ... %20X-ray%20Observatory Here Data Collection = Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle The Chandra X-ray Observatory (formerly the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility, or AXAF) was built around a high-resolution grazing incidence ...

... intense magnetic fields surrounding neutron stars and black holes. The astronomers, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory , had discovered that neither type of body was evident in the RCW 38 ... . Wolk et al., “ Discovery of Nonthermal X-ray Emission from the Embedded Massive Star-Forming Region RCW 38,” Astrophysical Journal Letters 580, no. 2 (1 December 2002): L161-L165.) November 2002 November ...

... objects was comparable to or greater than the volume emitted by relatively warmer, larger hard x-ray sources, such as neutron stars and supermassive black holes. The findings indicated that the ... that the researchers termed “quasi-soft” x-ray sources. (NASA, “Enigmatic X-ray Sources May Point To New Class of Black Holes,” news release 04-067, 1 March 2004; Frank Morring Jr., “In ... 160, no. 10 (8 March 2004): 19. February 2004 February March 2004 March Mar 1 2004 1 Mar 2 2004 2 Mar 3 2004 3 Mar 4 2004 4 Mar 5 2004 ...

... and was hospitalized in stable condition. Love, 37, was chief AF pilot assigned to the X-24B program that tested a wingless aircraft to develop a space vehicle that could be ... , had a diameter of 94 cm, and was 82 cm high. Its estimated lifetime was 1.5 yr. This was the second successful launch with the new N rocket. (FBIS, Kyodo ... ; acceptance of experiments, and approval of integration tests; and coordination of training programs. ( ESA release, 1 Mar 76) The European Space Agency ( ESA ) announced an agreement on loan of a radiometer ...

... method. Medium-angle camera on TIROS VI meteorological satellite stopped transmitting pictures, during orbit 1,074, but satellite's wide-angle camera was still sending pictures of "excellent quality ... performance of USAF, USN, and U.S. Army Scientific research vehicles. Specifically included were X-20 ( Dyna-Soar ) manned space vehicle; Project West, Ford (orbiting metallic filaments); space ...

... of innovators and explorers. It also tests concepts and solutions for potential future NASA missions. X-Hab is sponsored by NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate and the Innovative Partnerships Office ... examples are blocked from view by the rust. The findings appear in the Friday July 1, online edition of the International Journal of Astrobiology. "The plausibility of life on Mars depends ...

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