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... flight demonstrator plan, NASA’s Scalable Convergent Electric Propulsion Operations Research project will build the X-57 by modifying a recently procured, Italian-designed Tecnam P2006T twin-engine light aircraft. Its ... is expected to significantly decrease aircraft noise, making it less annoying to the public. The X-57 research started as part of the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's Transformative Aeronautics ...

... second strongest. source in the sky (that in the constellation Scorpius, a continuous source of x-rays, was the strongest). No star of comparable brilliance appeared in previous photographs of the ... was rarely observed at widely separated wavelengths such as those of visible light and x-rays. (NYT, Sept 17/77, 138) August 1977 August September 1977 September Sep 1 1977 1 Sep ... 1977 13 Sep 14 1977 14 Sep 15 1977 15 Sep 16 1977 16 Sep 17 1977 17 Sep 18 1977 18 Sep 19 1977 19 Sep 20 1977 20 Sep 21 ...

... NASA Flight Research Center , Edwards, Calif. Flight was second highest altitude achieved with rocket-powered X-15 and fourth to reach or exceed altitude for which aircraft was designed; it was ... that we anticipate obtaining in the Cooper flight. . . .” ''(NASA Budget Briefing FY 1964 Transcript, 1/17/63)'' Rainer Berger, senior research scientist at Lockheed-California, Co., predicted man would probably encounter ... 1963 13 Jan 14 1963 14 Jan 15 1963 15 Jan 16 1963 16 Jan 17 1963 17 Jan 18 1963 18 Jan 19 1963 19 Jan 20 1963 20 Jan 21 ...

... this country." ''(Text)'' In its first five years of powered flight, the X-15 aircraft amassed total of 17 hrs., 52 min., 7.1 sec. of flight, of which 4 hrs., 8 ... sake of knowledge. . . . I would continue space expenditures at their present level." ''(Houston Chron., 9/17/64)'' Vladimir Kotelnikov, member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, proposed one-year radio search of ... 1964 13 Sep 14 1964 14 Sep 15 1964 15 Sep 16 1964 16 Sep 17 1964 17 Sep 18 1964 18 Sep 19 1964 19 Sep 20 1964 20 Sep 21 ...

... design, fabrication, delivery, installation, and checkout of an optical bench and alignment system for an x-ray telescope test facility at Marshall Space Flight Center . The facility would be used to ... in handling operational needs of the high energy experiments on Spacelab pallets. (Covault, Av Wk, 17 March 75,59-60) February 1975 February March 1975 March Mar 1 1975 1 Mar ... 1975 13 Mar 14 1975 14 Mar 15 1975 15 Mar 16 1975 16 Mar 17 1975 17 Mar 18 1975 18 Mar 19 1975 19 Mar 20 1975 20 Mar 21 ...

... , Va. Four university experiments will be flown as part of an educational project called RockSat-X, which is designed to provide students hands-on experience in designing, fabricating, testing and conducting ... Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology during a media teleconference on Aug. 17. "With such a great landing spot in Gale Crater, we literally had every degree of ...

... a new picture of space cosmic rays, based on results of experiments with rocket-borne x-ray telescope. New results showed that less than one per cent of all cosmic rays ... from exploding stars. He said these findings showed that there were too many x-rays to support theory that x-rays are produced by cosmic rays' colliding with starlight, and too few ... 1964 13 May 14 1964 14 May 15 1964 15 May 16 1964 16 May 17 1964 17 May 18 1964 18 May 19 1964 19 May 20 1964 20 May 21 ...

... to 3,818 mph (mach 5.18) and 277,000-ft altitude, becoming fourth USAF X-15 pilot to meet 264,000-ft-minimum-altitude requirement for USAF astronaut rating. Purposes ... measurement; (3) micrometeoroid collection; and (4) ultraviolet plume and tip-pod camera evaluation. ''( X-15 Proj Off; FRC X-Press, 10/20/67,1)'' The five-out-of-five successful missions of ... 1967 13 Oct 14 1967 14 Oct 15 1967 15 Oct 16 1967 16 Oct 17 1967 17 Oct 18 1967 18 Oct 19 1967 19 Oct 20 1967 20 Oct 21 ...

... ., 2/ 18/65; AP, Houston Post, 2/18/65; Appel, NYT, 2/18/65, 1)'' X-15 No. 2 was flown by Maj. Robert A. Rushworth (USAF) to 95,100 ft ... and fuel and energy for such things as distillation of water was scarce. ''(NYT, 2/17/65, 28)'' A new extraterrestrial mineral, previously unknown in nature and christened sinoite (silicon oxynitride ... 1965 13 Feb 14 1965 14 Feb 15 1965 15 Feb 16 1965 16 Feb 17 1965 17 Feb 18 1965 18 Feb 19 1965 19 Feb 20 1965 20 Feb 21 ...

... /18/65; Semple, NYT, 6/18/65, 1, 13; Sehlstedt, Balt. Sun, 6/18/65)'' X-15 No. 1 flown by pilot Milton Thompson (NASA) to 108,523 ft. altitude at ... of this country fair market value pursuant to the so-called Morse formula." ''(CR, 6/17/65)'' Commenting on anxiety about the Soviet Union's capability of delivering strategic weapons from ... 1965 13 Jun 14 1965 14 Jun 15 1965 15 Jun 16 1965 16 Jun 17 1965 17 Jun 18 1965 18 Jun 19 1965 19 Jun 20 1965 20 Jun 21 ...

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