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... science, technology, and space subcommittee, said that projected cost overruns for the Centaur G and G Prime vehicles-development programs could run as high as $50 to $60 million, but that the ... calling for a 50-50 sharing of Centaur G program-design and -development costs. The Air Force, however, had set a $150 million ceiling on basic Centaur-development costs, which had not yet ...

... for advancing the interests and participation of the private sector in the U.S. Space Program. He previously had co-founded businesses in the private sector and had served at the ... Shuttle STS51-L 51-L accident prompted major safety reviews and safety criteria, which the Centaur, even after modifications, could not meet. Under Richard H. Truly 's direction, NASA initiated efforts ...

... spacecraft reached orbit 13 minutes and 16 seconds after launch. Seventy-nine minutes later, the Centaur ignited a second time, sending InSight on a trajectory towards the Red Planet. InSight separated ... manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The InSight ...

... more than 13,000 lunar surface photographs and brought that project to a close. Atlas-Centaur AC-6 launched a dummy Surveyor on a simulated lunar transfer orbit and proved itself ... oscillating universe. ''(Alp News, 12/22/65)'' Among highlights in the U.S. communications satellite program were: initiation of commercial comsat operations, with Early Bird EARLY BIRD I in synchronous orbit ...

... -made Centaure sounding rocket to probe the ionosphere. At least 50 launchings of high-altitude probes were programed annually for the next seven years with English Skylarks slated for use after the Centaure ... of notes, the governments of the two countries affirmed their intention to extend the cooperative program to space flight operations. "Under it, the Australian Department of Supply establishes and operates stations ...

... antenna was properly deployed and working perfectly. Surveyor program was under direction of Office of Space Science and Applications OSSA Lunar and Planetary Program Div.; project management was assigned to Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL ; prime contractor for spacecraft development and design was Hughes Aircraft Co. Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle was under ...

... Aldrich. With this combined responsibility, Aldrich would take charge of integration of all Space Shuttle program elements including flight software, orbiter, external tank, solid-fuel rocket boosters, main engines, payloads, payload ... to General Dynamics Corp. for management and engineering services in support of the Atlas/Centaur launch vehicle program. The contract also called for the company to provide technical management, engineering design, analysis ...

... rocket, Americas first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), and workhorse of the civil and military space programs since the late 1950s. The book is written by Chuck Walker , a participant in the ... the role of Atlas in Americas space programs from the late 1950s to the present day. Chapters 17 and 18 describe the high-performance Centaur upper stage used for communication satellite and ...

... included for the development of a launch vehicle consisting of the Saturn IB plus the Centaur. Final decision as to whether to move ahead with the development of the Voyager spacecraft ... . We should go ahead and devote efforts to develop a program to land on Mars in 1969." Temple Neumann, Automated Biological Laboratory program engineer with Philco's Aeronutronic Div., agreed with Levin ...

... Center 's Saturn OB Program Office, had been named program manager of the newly established Saturn IB /Centaur office, Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC announced. The office would manage the program definition and design phase of the three-stage Saturn IB /Centaur ...

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