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Image:Zond1.jpg 500px Zond-1 3MV-1 No.4. Category:Spacecraft

... photographic equipment on board the Zond-5 and Zond-6 stations. Image:Moon from Zond.jpg 300px Moon photographs taken with photographic equipment on board the Zond-5 and Zond-6 stations. Image:Zond5splash.jpg 300px The descent vehicle of the Zond-5 station in the Indian Ocean after its return ...

... . ''(Witkin, NYT, 6/1/64)'' In a letter to Aviation Week, S.B. Kramer suggested that, on the basis of his computations, the U.S.S.R.'s ZOND I probe was ... sunlit side of Venus around July 24, 1964. His calculations were based on bulletins on ZOND I issued by Tass, and he asserted that they led him to two conclusions: first, that ZOND I was on a trajectory that would lead it to approach Venus closely; second, that ...

... and speeds of upper atmospheric winds. ''(NASA Rpt. SRL)'' Soviet Union announced that the spacecraft, ZOND headed for Mars in an apparent race With MARINER IV , had run into difficulties. The Soviet report said that in the first few radio contacts between ZOND II and the ground "the power supply on board the space station was about half ... ,000 or even 100,000 years before the luminescence was observed. ''(Sci. Serv., NYT, 12/1/64, 19)'' Former NASA astronaut Col. John H. Glenn , Jr. ''(USMC)'' , completed 15-day assignment ...

Image:Zond2.jpg 500px Zond-2 3MV-4 No. 2. Category:Spacecraft

... International Code would designate all orbiting artificial satellites and space probes with Arabic numerals (1963-1, 1963-2, etc.) rather than Greek letters (1963 Alpha, 1963 Beta., etc.), National Academy of ... . Newly created Space Sciences Div. would direct scientific aspects of the project. ''(San Jose News, 1/1/63)'' Walter C. Williams and J. C. Elms assumed duties as deputy directors of NASA ...

... assistant to the president. ''(NASA Release 63-42; NAA S&IS Skywriter, 3/8/63,1)'' NASA Manned Spacecraft Center proposal to establish manned orbital Space Station which Stressed that Such ... established using rockets, equipment, and materials under development now for Project Apollo . Plan called for (1) orbiting Space station with capacity for 18 crewmen; (2) sending six men in adapted Apollo ...

... Au­gust alone, they discovered two Atlantic hurricanes and four Pa­cific typhoons. Since April 1, 1962, there were only seven days when a Tiros satellite was not in operation. Information ... -4)'' USAF launched unidentified satellite with Thor-Agena D vehicle. ''(Pres. Rpt. on Space, 1963,1/27/64)'' Dr. Robert C. Seamans , Jr., NASA Associate Administrator, testified on NASA facility planning ...

... H. Debus , and a Deputy Di­rector and four Assistant Directors. ''(LOC Spaceport News, 5/1/63)'' NASA Ames Research Center announced award of contract to Thiokol Chemical Corp. for "hypervelocity ... -week periods had developed anemia but, remained otherwise healthy. ''(Science Service, Wash. Daily News, 5/1/63)'' Brig. Gen. Samuel C. Phillips (USAF), Director of Minuteman Pro­gram, said at Norton ...

... based on predictable and expectable payload launchings within booster's capability. ''(Space Bus. Daily, 7/1/63)'' International Academy of Astronautics announced 1963 Daniel and Florence Guggenheim International Astronautics Award would ... and Propulsion Assistant Di­rector (for Propulsion), quoted as saying combustion instability problem of F-1 rocket engine was now "under control," in Missiles and Rockets. Installation of mechanical isolator separated ...

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