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... , 10/20/67,3)'' U.S.S.R. successfully launched Molniya 1.6 comsat to relay television signals from the Soviet Far East to Moscow and on to Paris. Orbital parameters: apogee ... which contributed to development of Scout launch vehicle and to management of Project Mercury , Lunar Orbiter Program, and Project Fire; and (6) support services for Gemini and Apollo programs through use ... on the same day, scientist Konstantin P. Feoktisov, veteran of three-orbit flight in 1964, listed a manned laboratory in orbit as first among coming space developments, then a moon landing, then ...

... and selected backup lunar orbit rendezvous (Lox) mission activities; and assess Command Service Module CSM / Lunar Module LM consumables. Multispectral photography experiment was carried for first time. March 3-13: Apollo 9 ... Russell L. Schweickart ( Lunar Module LM pilot), entered initial orbit with 119.5-mi (192.3-km) apogee and 117.6-mi (189.3-km) perigee. After post-insertion checkout Command Service Module ...

... beyond the implications of last month's start on an orbiting space station," Aviation Week & Space Technology said. "Latest analysis of orbital changes achieved by Cosmos 382, launched by a Proton booster ... corresponding precisely to that required for lunar orbit insertion and once at exactly the velocity change needed for trans-earth injection." ''(Av Wk, 5/3/71, 13)'' Dept. of Labor's Manpower ...

... Bellcomm computer analysis suggesting vapors could have come from urine dumped into lunar orbit by Apollo 14 astronauts. ''(NYT, 3/4/72)'' Physicist Dr. Ralph E. Lapp discussed space shuttle economics in ... $2000 per 0.5 kg (1 lb) , "then 20 million pounds 9 million kg in orbit represent a national investment of $40 billion." Shuttle development cost of $5.5 billion plus ... the $700 per 0.5 kg that existing NASA launch vehicles had cost. Only "if orbital payloads can be reduced so they cost only several times more per pound than gold ...

... Cosmos satellites on a single booster from Plesetsk . Orbital parameters were: Cosmos 588-1495-km (929-mi) apogee, 1450-km (901-mi) perigee, 115.3-min period, and 74.0° inclination. Cosmos ... launch was June 8, into similar orbits. ''( GSFC SSR, 10/31/73; CSM, 11/13/73; SBD, 10/4/73, 170; Tass, FBIS-Sov, 10/3/73, U1)'' The U.S.S.R. also launched Cosmos 596 from Plesetsk , into orbit with a 268-km (166.5-mi) apogee ...

... completed nearly 2 yr of successful operation and was adjudged successful. Explorer 49's lunar orbit, away from the noisy environment of earth, had increased the effectiveness of the instrumentation. The ... conducted in KSC's Vehicle Assembly Building , an ideal wind-free testing facility. Full-scale 3.7-m parachutes with simulated pressure vessels weighing 204 kg were dropped 13 times from ...

... for carrying crews, fuel, and provisions to scientific stations and for assembling complex structures in orbit; craft of this kind would "undoubtedly become assembly sites for large space stations to be ... station. The orbital stations would be supplied with consumables by a modification of the existing Soyuz, and this experience' would be applied later to shuttles and space tugs. (CSM, 3 Dec 75 ...

... Space Network should be able to hear the spacecraft as far out as the orbit of Uranus-3.2 billion km from earth-which it should reach in 1979. Systems aboard the ... valuable information on the character of the interplanetary medium in the unexplored space beyond the orbit of Jupiter, which it flew past in Dec. 1973. Project officials said that communication might ... could save time and fuel by using the data to locate them. NASA's polar-orbiting satellite passing over the coast twice daily would use visual and infrared sensors to relay ...

... use of a hemispheric antenna more than 3 km in diameter, orbiting the earth opposite the moon but shielded from earth's radio emissions. The orbiting antenna would occupy one of the points in the moon's orbit where the gravity field of earth and moon would balance ... co-investigator on another, Dr. Johnston had planned the work in hopes of going on orbital missions in the 1980s. Also on the program was Audrey Rowe Colom, director of women ...

... flights. The closed-circuit TV camera system installed on the Space Shuttle would photograph earth-orbital missions starting in 1979 through the 1980s. Under contract to Johnson Space Flight Center, RCA ... parts of a satellite on the servicing platform mounted in the orbiter's payload bay. ( Johnson Space Center JSC Roundup, Mar 3/78, 1) Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced it had fabricated and ...

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