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... on Gemini 6, was Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford. He was the Command Pilot on Apollo VII, the first manned flight test of the three direction United States spacecraft. Apollo VII began on October 11, 1968, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele and Lunar Module ... spacecraft systems, and provided the first effective television transmission of on-board crew activities. Apollo VII was placed in an orbit with an apogee of 153.5 nautical miles and a ...
... and starts to talk to
McDonnell-Douglas and they start calling it Mercury Mark VII. Obviously,
Mark VII is not a very good name. But anyway, it starts to become
something. It ... the
name of what it was. I think we'd stopped calling it the Mark VII and
something else, some other name. Anyway, we were in the process of
looking for ...
... hand controllers that were used on the LLRV 1 and 2 were Gemini VI and VII flight controllers. In my interview with Ivan D. Ertel, I said they were off of VII and VIII flight vehicles, which that’s probably more correct since that was very shortly ... with the Gemini controller that they’d modified that I’d gotten from either Gemini VII or VIII and a modified T-handle for the descent rockets that we had on ...
... -Agena B for space missions. NASA already had used seven
of the vehicles five for Ranger and two for Mariner -and was
planning to use 20 Atlas-Agena B ’s over next three years-in
Gemini rendezvous flights, Ogo , Oao , Ranger , and Mariner R .
Prime vehicle contractors were General Dynamics /Astronautics
for Atlas stage and Lockheed ...
... Technology: `Since all known tests indicate that gaseous surface sterilization does not affect reliability, Ranger problems were definitely not due to sterilization but, instead, were ordinary design problems unrelated ... the inclusion of this requirement. It is, therefore, grossly unrealistic to blame sterilization for the Ranger failures. . . ' ''(Av. Wk., 5/20/63, 150)''
Dr. John R. Dunning, Dean of Columbia Univ ...
... , and another weather satellite. The fifth scientific lunar probe ( RANGER V ) was unsuccessful and led to a reworking of the remaining Ranger probes. Project Apollo flight testing was begun. In its ...
... , Post, 2/12/64; M&R, 2/17/64, 16)''
NASA announced that failure of RANGER VI spacecraft to take pictures of the moon may have been caused by unscheduled turn ... nothing at that time indicated any abnormalities in the TV system. Tracking data showed that RANGER VI impacted the moon within 20 mi. of its target and within one third of ...
... the minds." Mr. Webb stressed that he was not singling out anyone for blame for Ranger lunar spacecraft failures. "Our objective is success on the next flight and not to find a scapegoat for this kind of thing." Of the next Ranger lunar probe, he said, "We are still striving to get it off about June, but ...
... a telegram to J. R. Dempsey, president of General Dynamics-Astronautics : "Spectacular success of the Ranger moon shot should not overshadow the equally spectacular record of consecutive successful launchings by Atlas boosters. Ranger shot was the 17th straight Such amazing reliability is the backbone of our space program ...
... (D-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, commented on the successful RANGER VIII spacecraft as "yet another major American space achievement. For the second time in less than a year a Ranger spacecraft has successfully taken closeup pictures of the lunar surface and returned them to earth ...
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