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... -lb. dummy Surveyor payload to remain in earth orbit with the Centaur stage rather than enter simulated lunar trajectory as programmed. Orbital parameters: apogee, 208 mi. (335 km.); perigee, 113 mi. (182 ... NASA's first operational mission which would attempt to land Surveyor spacecraft on the moon. Centaur program was directed by NASA Office of Space Science and Applications OSSA and managed by Lewis ...

... we both worked together on this program. The program would demonstrate onboard assent guidance, orbital control, rendezvous and controlled reentry. It proposed an enlarged booster (perhaps a Centaur stage), and a rendezvous target ... addition to that, in the meantime, that platform was scheduled for another program… the Centaur Program . Eventually, Marshall took over that (Centaur) system and they looked at the guidance system, and that guidance system ...

... support of the Space Shuttle/Centaur program. Work began in July 1985 and would run through October 1987. Digital computers would serve as the focal point for the Centaur flight-control system, processing ... the upper atmosphere and in plasma-electrodynamic interactions. 101 The overall objectives of the TSS program were to demonstrate the successful operation of a tethered satellite, perform the initial electrodynamic science ...

NASA announced launch responsibility for Agena and Centaur space vehicle programs had been transferred from NASA Launch Operations Center to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ’s ... developed under management of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center . Overall project responsibility for Agena and Centaur programs had been assigned to NASA Lewis Research Center in December and October, respectively. ''(NASA Release ...

... of the Centaur program, stated that preliminary data on May 9 explosion indicated that structural failure was caused by the "design of the weather shield between the nose fairing and the Centaur itself ... by laboratory analysis and without full-scale wind-tunnel tests." In spite of program delays, Hansen said that the Centaur program had been subjected to "unwarranted criticisms." In answer to question on Astronaut ...

... 24/85, B1) NASA Administrator James Beggs told Congress that the new version of the Centaur rocket designed for Space Shuttle -launched planetary missions would cost about $110 million more ($90 ... the job of integrating the Centaur into the shuttle and General Dynamics underestimated the cost of changing the configuration of the rocket." The new estimates raised Centaur program costs from $755 million to ...

... ,194,665 contract to General Dynamics Corp.'s Convair Division to support the Space Shuttle/Centaur program from August 30, 1985 through June 1987 Under the cost-plus-award-fee contract, General ... were services such as overall program management; administration and engineering support; technical management; operations, planning, and integration; and launch complex modifications. NASA planned that the Space Shuttle/Centaur combination in May 1986 ...

... , Ohio. Vincent Johnson, NASA Centaur program manager, reportedly said NASA would spend an additional $33 million to accelerate slipping Centaur launch vehicle development. NASA would divert funds from other programs rather than request supplement ...

... would direct increased attention and impetus to the widebody Centaur program recently approved by NASA. A new Upper Stage Division would manage the widebody Centaur, the inertial Upper stage (IUS), the spinning solid ...

... mentioned were "openness of the NASA program," "inspiration which the astronauts of our space program have given to our youth," and that difficult achievement, "a balanced program " ''(CR, 10 /9 /63; A6327)'' Senator ... are the only ones worthwhile."' Under mismanagement charges, Simons listed the GAO report on the Centaur program and the NASA charges of substandard workmanship by industry in the Mercury pro­gram , which ...

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