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... remained before the Centaur could be considered operational, this first successful flight of the high-energy liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen booster was a major land­mark in a development program dogged with delays and dis­appointments. The previous launch attempt, on May 8, 1962, ended 55 sec. after launch in fiery explosion when the weather shield ripped off the Centaur ...

... Flight Center , Dr. James C. Fletcher , NASA Administrator, presented Group Achievement Awards to the Skylab Program Offices at MSFC , Kennedy Space Center , Johnson Space Center , and NASA Hq. and to special ... -million contingency fund, and the cost of the Titan-Centaur launch vehicles. One orbiter and one lander spacecraft had been deleted from the program see 10 Oct. , manpower had been reduced, and ...

... .412 million contract with General Dynamics was for design and development of two modified Centaur vehicles. A $.933 million contract with United Technologies Corporation would cover building four RL10 ... newly refurbished Canberra bomber would be the test airplane for an atmospheric-turbulence measurement program to gather data on sudden wind changes creating abrupt and uneven pressures on ...

... April 1986. After the Challenger accident this mission was postponed, and the Shuttle Centaur project was terminated. In August 1986, Captain Hauck was appointed NASA Associate Administrator ... Boeing Space Launch Mission Assurance Review Team (1999); External Program Assessment Team for NASA 2 nd Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle Program, Space Launch Initiative and Orbital Space Plane (2000- ...

... until Oct. 3, the report charged that poor management, and program slippage had added $100 million to the cost of the program. The most significant charge in the report was that NASA ... Assistant Administrator for Technology Utilization and Policy Planning: "On Sept. 30, 1962, we moved the Centaur project from Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville to the Lewis Research Center because ...

... EDT, failed to enter orbit when Centaur stage of Atlas- Centaur booster malfunctioned after normal countdown and liftoff. Anomalies began to appear with Centaur main engine start. Centaur stage oscillated in pitch in ... already behind the TU-144. And things here are good absolutely according to the program." ''(Fms-Sov-71-97, 5/17/71, L13)'' April 1971 April May 1971 May ...

... Marietta Corp. Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed and built the orbiter system. The Titan-Centaur launch vehicle was the responsibility of Lewis Research Center ; LaRC managed launch and ... ), a low-budget cooperative NASA-Department of Agriculture- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration program designed to assess U.S. wheat crop yields and to forecast production, could ...

... polar route on Pan American's 50th anniversary flight. Known as GASP (global air sampling program), the Lewis Research Center LeRC effort had used instruments designed at he center to detect ... payload wreckage from the "unprecedented" back-to-back explosions of a Delta and an Atlas Centaur carrying an OTS and an INTELSAT spacecraft. In "the most comprehensive and painstaking recovery in ...

... contract with Honeywell, Inc., Avionics Division, St. Petersburg, Fla., for management and engineering support of Centaur inertial guidance. This automatic self-contained navigation and guidance system with a digital computer unit ... reimburse NASA under a launch-services agreement for costs of the Atlas-Centaur and the launch. The INTELSAT IV A program represented an investment by 101 nations of approximately $295 million (US ...

... Sov Aero, 9/11/72, 70)'' Dr. Rocco A. Petrone , Apollo Program Director, had been assigned additional responsibilities as Program Director of Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), NASA announced. Dr. Petrone ... were later mated on the pad at Launch Complex 36, to form the Atlas-Centaur 22 vehicle baffle, inertial reference unit, electronically scanned star tracker, and heat pipes. Spacecraft ...

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