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... relayed to earth 4,316 high-quality close-up photos of the lunar surface. RANGER VIII , launched on Feb. 20, 1965, transmitted 7,137 pictures. Total number of photographs from RANGER VII , RANGER VIII VIII , and RANGER IX IX was 17,267. ''(NASA Release 65-96; Sullivan, NYT, 3/22 ...

... technologists are finding common interests." '' (N Hav Reg, 10/20/70)'' October 20-27: Zond VIII automatic space station was launched by U.S.S.R. from Baikonur and placed on ... path and return to earth on Oct. 27." On Oct. 24 Tass announced that Zond VIII had circled within 1120 km (696 mi) of moon, studied space, photographed moon, and was ... important photographs needed for studies of the geological and morphological qualities of the moon." Zond VIII was eighth spacecraft in Zond series and second spacecraft to land in water; first had ...

... and VII rendezvoused together, two spacecrafts, so I guess it would have been—no, Gemini VIII. Yes, VIII would be the next one we flew. Well, somewhere, I forget which Gemini it ... thought about, and get up and bite you every time. Well, back to Gemini, Gemini VIII, when Armstrong came over the next site, the bird was steady and rolling along, and ...

... not far from it. '''Rusnak:''' Surveyor. '''Carr:''' Surveyor. That's right. Surveyor III or Surveyor VIII? Can't remember. '''Rusnak:''' Three, I think. '''Carr:''' Three, I think. Anyway, their job was ... commander at NASA since—what was it? I guess it was probably Armstrong on Gemini VIII. '''Rusnak:''' That's right. '''Carr:''' And so I was really flabbergasted to be selected and ...

... . 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 after 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 the vehicle ... he had his problem, when he had the runaway thrusters, the stuck thrusters on Gemini VIII . So we won’t get into that. That hasn’t got anything to do with ...

... ARC, adding that solar storms during the past few days had played havoc with Pioneer's radio signals. Pioneer was not designed in 1967 to fly to Saturn; that mission arose only ... potentially fatal collision. Because of intense radiation (solar-particle interference was degrading the quality of Pioneer images), mission controllers at ARC had reduced the data transmission rate by half. Solar storms ... fifth (or E) ring had been suspected close to the A ring although Pioneer did not report it. Pioneer had also tracked what might be a new Saturn moon orbiting about 70 ...

... TIROS VIII (A-53) meteorological satellite was placed in orbit by NASA, using a Thor-Delta booster ... : apogee, 474 mi.; perigee, 431 mi.; period, 99.3 min. ; in­clination, 58.49°. TIROS VIII , in addition to the usual wide-angle TV camera transmitting cloud-cover pictures once an ...

... . Col. Peter Romo, staff meteorologist of AFMTC, said his office was using photographs from TIROS VIII in its weather predictions for missile launchings from Cape Kennedy . APT (Automatic Picture Transmis­sion) ground-receiving station was installed in mobile trailer at AFMTC for receiving the TIROS VIII photographs. ''(M&R, 1/6/64, 16)'' USAF F-104 squadron completed first nonstop tactical ...

December 15-19: NASA successfully launched Essa VIII ''(TOS-F)'', eighth meteorological satellite in ESSA's Tiros Operational Satellite ''(TOs)'' sys­tem, from ... -min period, and 101.9° inclination. An advanced version of cartwheel configuration, 300-lb Essa VIII carried two Automatic Picture Transmission ''(APT)'' cameras which would photograph earth's cloud cover and ...

... RANGER VIII lunar probe successfully executed a midcourse maneuver that corrected the path established at launch and ... attitude stabilization locks on the sun and earth, a "go" command was transmitted and RANGER VIII executed the maneuver in about 27 min. The correction completed, the spacecraft reacquired its stabilization ...

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