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... confidence could be placed in NASA's meeting its 1970 deadline. ''(Wash. Eve. Star, 7/2/64, A8)'' USAF launched Thor-Agena D space booster from WTR with undisclosed satellite payload ... complement two Army-developed communications terminals on East and West Coasts. ''( AIAA Booster, 7/2/64, 2)'' Engineers proposed development of intercontinental ballistic troop trans-port capable of carrying 1,200 troops ...

... accommodate the Saturn IB rocket, Army Corps of Engineers made the award. ''(AP, Miami Her., 2/3/65)'' Editorializing in the Washington Evening Star about "lean years" beginning for the aerospace ... there were concrete, finite objectives to be achieved with these funds.', ." ''(Hines, Wash. Eve. Star, 2/2/65)'' Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced plans to buy American military aircraft to replace British ...

... were invited to suggest experiments (1) involving the design and construction of entire spacecraft and (2) involving special characteristics or requirements calling for the development of a new Explorer spacecraft or ... recommended more re- search on possible control of these electrical forces. ''(Lear, Houston Chron., 3/2/65; Ind. Star, 3/7/65; WBE Sci. Serv.)'' A $1,366,511 contract for ... . . . ." ''(Testimony; NASA Auth. Hearings, 1-87)'' March 1965 March Mar 1 1965 1 Mar 2 1965 2 Mar 3 1965 3 Mar 4 1965 4 Mar 5 1965 5 Mar 6 1965 ...

... ,376,350 for construction of facilities; and $596,100,000 for administrative expenses. ''(CR, 6/2/ 65, 11816)'' NASA Administrator James E. Webb , testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee ... -km,) apogee and 100-mi. (161-km, perigee. Twelve minutes later, McDivitt fired the retrorockets; 2½ min. later he placed the spacecraft into slow rotation to reduce reentry dispersion. Communications with ...

... operational purposes." ''(NASA Release 65-229; NASA Release 65-197; AP, Wash. Eve, Star, 7/2/65, A3; KSC Spaceport News, 7/8/65, 4)'' PEGASUS II meteoroid detection satellite, orbited ... % and a contractor cost-share of 25%, would be $5,670,000-an increase of $2 million above the monthly level of funding for the four design contractors during the period ... were said to' have the capability for use as armed missiles. ''(Reuters, Wash, Post, 7/2/65)'' Statistics on intercontinental ballistic missiles were given by Robert R. Brunn in an article ...

... F-4 jet fighters for USAF, USN, and the Marines. ''(St, Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/2/65)'' Hamilton Standard delivered to NASA Manned Spacecraft Center a prototype portable life support system ... high-gain directional antenna to obtain data from the spacecraft for up to 10 mo.; (2) reliance solely on MARINER IV 's low-gain antenna for transmission, permitting two-way communications ... period of 567.11 days, perihelion of 1031 million mi., and aphelion of 146.2 million mi. ''(Watkins, Av. Wk., 8/2/65, 32)'' August 1965 August Aug 1 1965 1 Aug ...

... were in trajectories close to those calculated; all onboard equipment was functioning normally. ''(Tass, 12/2/65)'' President Johnson named Dr. Finn J. Larsen, Honeywell vice president, as Principal Director of ... Central Connecticut State College that the space budget would decline from $5 billion to about $2 billion by 1970 unless new space projects were proposed and approved soon, He was pessimistic ...

... funds. This is another unprecedented task for aerospace management to tackle. . . ." ''(Hotz, Av Wk, 1/2/67, 11)'' US. experts believed establishment of permanent lunar colonies and exploitation of lunar resources ... toward these objectives would include: (1) orbiting of three or four cosmonauts for three weeks; (2) extensive practice of extravehicular activity and assembly in orbit; (3) orbiting of animals to continue ...

... at FTC by USAF pilots Col. Joseph Cotton and L/C Emil Strumthal, reached mach 2.52 and 63,500-ft altitude in flight to test stability control and handling qualities. Other test objectives included: handling qualities at mach 1.2 and 40,000-ft altitude; unstarts; radar air speed calibration at mach 1.9 down ... 's largest operating mirror-now 20 years old, had diameter of 200 in. ''(SBD, 11/2/67,11)'' British Univ. of Bristol Prof. H. E. Hinton, speaking to the Royal Society ...

... . SRL)’’ USAF launched unidentified satellite by Thor-Agena D booster from Vandenberg AFB . ‘‘(M&R, 2/7/66, 11; U S . Aeron. & Space Act., 1966, 147)’’ Secretary of Defense Robert S ... failure by Spaco, Inc., private firm developing space survival and bail-out equipment. ‘‘(Balt. Sun, 2/3/66)’’ AEC announced plans to develop a radioisotope-powered cardiac pacemaker for treatment of ... . ‘‘(Science, 3/18/66,1372-4)’’ February 1966 February Feb 1 1966 1 Feb 2 1966 2 Feb 3 1966 3 Feb 4 1966 4 Feb 5 1966 5 Feb 6 1966 ...

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