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... service module and lunar module, and between all the guidance equipment and also between the booster and the launch complex. Interfaces, as I teach in my class today, are one of ... , we had the main engines, the SSMEs Space Shuttle Main Engines and the boosters, the solid rocket boosters, and the vehicles too heavy. So then we had to go into a very ... , there still is a lot of arguments about which is more reliable, a solid rocket booster and a liquid system that is fed, that has all the intricacies of a liquid ...

... score of 82% mission success. Two spacecraft were launched on a single booster. NASA attempted 30 launches of space boosters and had 26 successes, a score of 87% launch vehicle success, Of ... Atlas-Centaur AC-5; test of Apollo launch escape system on a Little Joe II booster; failure of Orbiting Geophysical Observatory OGO II, which did return good (but incomplete) experiment data ...

... signed by NASA, called for design, devel­opment, and manufacture of 10 flight boosters and one ground test booster, as well as assistance to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in portions of ... to Martin-Marietta Corp. for design, development, fabrication, and delivery of Titan III Standardized Space Booster. Martin-Marietta was serving as systems integration contractor, with Aerojet General producing liquid propulsion systems ...

... /Convair in the amount of $2,247,174 for two additional Little Joe II solid boosters for use in the Apollo test program. The two new boost­ers would be used ... .- testing the capability of the launch escape system to separate the command module from the booster. This amendment would bring total Little Joe II procurement costs to $8,928,637, including ... Atlantic Missile Range AMR in test of vibration levels prior to its employment as a booster for Gemini manned space flights. Also along on the flight was a pickaback capsule of ...

USAF launched an Abres (advanced ballistic re-entry system) vehicle on an Atlas booster from Vandenberg AFB , Calif. Like the two previous launches in the series from Atlantic Missile ... space operations may require the use of recoverable boosters, for reasons of both efficiency and econ­omy. The first stage of such a booster system would probably be a recoverable air-breathing ...

... December, the President said that if successful it would give tie U.S. "the largest booster in the world and show significant progress in space. "I think that would be an ... milestone for us." The President was briefed on Projects Gemini and Apollo and the related booster programs by a group of NASA officials including NASA Administrator James E. Webb , NASA Associate ... illustrated lecture, the President lagged behind his party to examine models of the var­ious boosters in the space program. He picked up a model of the 72-ft. Atlas D ...

... told National Space Club in Washington that low reliability of Scout booster (50%) was because of difficulties in four-stage booster technology. A basic difficulty to be overcome in future space systems ... mph. ''(AF SC Operational Highlights, 13)'' U.S. launched an unidentified probe using Blue Scout booster. ''(Pres. Rpt. on Space, 1963, 1/27/61)'' December 1963 December Dec 1 1963 1 ...

... Science meeting in Cleveland, Prof. Kenechi Maeda of Kyoto Univ. described proposal for Japanese space booster submitted by Japanese engi­neers. Headed by Prof. H. Itokawa of Tokyo's Institute of ... be the best chance of detecting plant life or­ganisms." He recommended adapting Saturn IB booster to carry a several-hundred -pound instrumented payload. Dr. Brown esti­mated significant scientific probe ...

... -on of cruise telemetry from the TV system at about the same time as Atlas booster separation. For unexplained reason, telemetry turned on for about one minute and relayed measurements in ... ,146 contract to Chaney and James Construction Co., Inc., for construction of booster storage building, RP-1 dock, and booster transfer dock; and $2,401,542 contract to Farrell Construction Co. for ...

... Dynamics/ Astronautics received Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award for performance on Mercury spacecraft and Atlas booster of Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper 's 22-orbit flight; editors and staff of Fortune magazine ... program. Most of the nation's space shots to date have been launched by military boosters from Air Force facilities. The Titan III Standard Launch Vehicle, which is currently under development ...

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