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... an area west of the previously selected landing point. (W Post, 8 July 76, A-2) An altered orbit put Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 over an area called Plateau of ... plateau to be "twice as smooth as the plains." (W Post, 7 July 76, A-2) A JPL spokesman said preliminary pictures of another landing site proposed for Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 showed Martian terrain as rugged as that in 2 spots previously rejected. Viking spacecraft 1 Viking 1 was scheduled to take more photographs of ...

... confirm the presence of life on Mars until results from Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 were in. Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 was on its way to a landing scheduled for 3 Septa on ... Stanford University had told associates that Martian life forms brought to earth might threaten the 2 million species of life here by competing in unknown ways for food, water, or air needed to survive. (Thomas O'Toole, W Post, 3 Sept 76, A-2) Marshall Space Flight Center announced that the Space Div. of Rockwell Intl. Corp. at Palmdale ...

... crossing national borders); and certain intelligence, DOD, NASA, NOAA , and civilian programs. (AV Wk, Jan 2/78, 14) AV Wk reported NASA's announcement that it would send Pioneer 11 to ... place Pioneer 11 at about the same distance from Saturn as the trajectory of Voyager 2 , if NASA should decide to use Saturn's gravity to hurl Voyager ... . Pioneer 11 should reach Saturn in Sept. 1978. (AV Wk, Jan 2/78, 15; Lewis News, Jan 6/78, 2) President Carter's $100 million reduction in MX-missile FY 1979 funding ...

... , would support the first CARP global experiment. (NASA MOR E-612-78-01 postlaunch Aug 2/78) Marshall Space Flight Center announced that its test engineers had successfully completed the first ... its precise location and any associations with stars or stellar objects. (Goddard News, Aug 2/78, 2) Aerospace Daily reported that the Senate Appropriations Committee had approved a FY79 $4.359 billion ...

... computer system. (H Comm Sci Release 96-235) Nature magazine described equipment problems on HEAO 2 , also called the Einstein observatory, that might end the mission prematurely. Launched in 1978, HEAO ... three weeks ago when two of the six gyroscopes failed after a temporary blackout. HEAO 2 needed three functioning gyroscopes for positioning. One of the other four was already dead; another ...

... important contribution to the NAS of the 1990s. ( Lewis Research Center LeRC News, May 2/85, 2) The waste products of two monkeys and two dozen rats continued to float through the ... the mission to give the crew additional time to try to deploy it. On May 2 Fichtl explained that the rats' and one monkey's vigorous movement, which was "much more ... Release 85-64) April 1985 April May 1985 May May 1 1985 1 May 2 1985 2 May 3 1985 3 May 4 1985 4 May 5 1985 5 May 6 1985 ...

The European Space Agency ( ESA ) announced that it launched at 11.23 hours GMT July 2 Giotto , ESAs interplanetary space probe that would after a 700 million km voyage encounter Halley ... placed Giotto into a geostationary transfer orbit with parameters of 35,966 km, apogee; 199.2 km, perigee; and 7° inclination. Following separation from the launcher's third stage 22 minutes ... spacecraft participating in the Halley’s Comet investigation were the USSR's Vega 1 and 2, launched December 15 and December 21, 1984, respectively, to encounter the comet at a distance ...

... /85, A10) Federal investigation of the Delta Air Line Lockheed 1-1011-1 crash August 2 at Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport showed strong evidence of wind shear and microburst in ... , however remote, that destruction of the aircraft could have been instantaneous,” Kramer concluded. (NYT, Aug 2/85, A24) NASA Administrator James Beggs met with planetary science experts to discuss a plan ... alongside that comet, launch a probe, or return to earth after rendezvous. (W Times, Aug 2/ 85, 10A) NASA announced that a Scout vehicle today launched the Navy SOOS-I spacecraft ...

... Research Center (ARC) announced that the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputer, the Cray-2, arrived at ARC to assist researchers in taking major steps toward simulating actual aircraft flight ... making possible important advances, both in cost savings and performance, in aircraft design. The Cray-2 could perform 250 million continuous calculations per second, which was more than three times faster ...

... with illegally billing $Z5 million of its expenses to other government accounts, of which $3.2 million was paid. Along with Beggs, the indictment also named Ralph Hawes, division general manager ... made faster launches desirable. NROSS-1's expected lifetime would be three years; an NROSS-2 would depend on needed oceanographic data. The system would help battle group commanders predict ocean ... such as the Interplanetary Monitoring Probes, Mariner-10, Magsat, Pioneer-11, and Voyager 1 and 2. From January 1984 until March 1985, Alexander was a senior policy analyst at the White ...

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