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... VII ''(Surveyor G)'', last spacecraft in NASA's Sur­veyor Program to analyze lunar surface, was successfully launched from ETR by Atlas-Centaur ''(AC-15)'' booster on 67-hr lunar intercept trajectory ... support of Project Apollo . Surveyor program was directed by OSSA Lunar and Planetary Programs Div.; project manage­ment was assigned to Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL ; Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle was managed by LeRC ...

... new Launch Vehicles Div., which would include previously separate Centaur, Agena, and Atlas Project Offices. William R. Dunbar would become Project Manager for Centaur. H. Warren Plohr and Edward F. Baehr ... fixed-fee contract to Boeing Co. for technical integration and evaluation in support of Apollo program. Agreement was an addition to Boeing's previously contracted Saturn V work and could ...

... 40 nations are now participating in NASA programs or are obtaining NASA help for their respective space programs. Director of the Office of International Programs, Arnold Frutkin, pointed out that ... mile flight at Atlantic Missile Range . The payload included the guidance equipment for the Centaur engine Centaur rocket, radiation sensors, and a nose cone intended for the Minuteman . Data ...

... vehicle. Additional weight of nose fairing prevented Centaur from reaching necessary orbital velocity and satellite impacted shortly after completion of Centaur burn. Failure investigation board would be established ... mission profile. Station would be operated by Mexican government for Mexican scientific programs. NASA and Mexican National Commission for Outer Space (CNEE), which had cooperated ...

... Board appointed June 18 to examine and reevaluate philosophy, practices, and procedures in Centaur quality assurance and workmanship program reported findings and recommendations to House Committee on Science and Astronautics' Sub- committee ... approach to the use of new hard-ware in flight" was needed to improve Atlas-Centaur quality and workmanship. Board recommended enhanced emphasis on employee motivation, manufacturing, engineering, and planning, quality ...

... NASA's "little known and unglamorous" Earth Resources Technology Satellite renamed Landsat-1 4 Jan. program, inducing President Ford to overrule his budget advisers and provide money for a third spacecraft ... unsuccessful 6 March. The failure was the first for an Atlas Centaur since May 1971, when a circuit problem in the Centaur ended the launch of the Mariner 8 Mars probe. The ...

... the world's largest telecommunications satellite, INTELSAT V -2, from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas Centaur at 6:42 p.m. EDT into a highly elliptical transfer orbit with 35,960 ... INTELSAT V s would be launched by Atlas Centaur ; the next three, by Europe's Ariane booster. Average estimated cost of an Atlas Centaur launch was $42 million; that of an Ariane launch was $27 million. Overall cost of the INTELSAT V program was $680 million, or some $76 ...

... geosynchronous orbit. The AC-63, second of the new stretched version of the Atlas/Centaur for which Lewis Research Center had development and operation management responsibility, had an ... SETI computer. Billingham said the biggest challenge facing the SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE SETI program would be identifying the format, frequency resolution, and time of the signals in ...

... fuel cells service system; the other, 18 inches in diameter, would handle hydrogen from the Centaur upper stage, the facility storage tank, and the mobile launcher platform. Also new to the ... was the rolling beam that would supply liquid hydrogen to the Centaur upper stage. Plans called for use of the Centaur upper stage during the Galileo and Ulysses missions scheduled for May ... first laser tracking test. Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Meyer, manager of the laser test program, said the experiment was more a test to see how the atmosphere distorted the laser ...

... major portion of the high speed wind tunnel testing for our nose cone development program. NACA's Cleveland Propulsion Laboratories provided vital support to the Air Force in the ... 45-R-51)'' Martin Marietta recently completed NASA-funded, DOD-concurred upon study of Centaur upper stage mated with various Titans. Most promising configuration-particularly for heavy Surveyor spacecraft ...

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