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... sky sources. Gas-filled proportional counters were used to detect and measure energy of the x-rays. The rocket performed well and experimental results were good, but 10-20% of ... failures within a month," according to "authoritative sources in Washington." ''(L.A. Herald Examiner, 10/1/64)'' FAA Administrator Najeeb E. Halaby discussed "aviation in 1975" before National Aviation System Symposium ...

... the World Meteorological Organization, discussed international reaction to meteorological satellite developments, listing three main points: (1) "... the tremendous impact which this new means of observing the atmosphere has had upon the ... 65-104)'' Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey visited NASA Flight Research Center . ''(FRC X-Press, 4/9/65, 1, 2)'' FAA announced one-month extensions, through April 1965, of design contracts with ...

... OMSF to Office of Space Science and Applications OSSA . RL-10 , which had powered Saturn 1's 2nd stage (S-IV) in six successful flights prior to conclusion of Marshall Space ... ; Reuters, Wash. Post, 4/2/66, A16)'' Launch of U.S.S.R.'s LUNA X spacecraft indicated Soviet goals and techniques for reaching moon were similar to those of US ... 1966 "to provide communications support" for NASA's Apollo program. ''(Text)'' During week of April 1: Pulsed laser beam communications system which could penetrate cloud of plasma or charged gases surrounding ...

... the atmosphere as well as reentry into the atmosphere, such as Dyna-Soar and X-15 projects. Francis J. Sullivan-Director of Guidance, Control, and Information Systems in OAST- ... MSC's Engineering and Development Directorate's Laboratory Operations. Appointments would be effective April 1. ''(MSC Release 72-50)'' Atomic Energy Commission published Global Inventory and Distribution of Pu- ...

... and requirements for new observations and explanations. Committee defined four programs of highest priority: (1) very large radio array to attain resolution equivalent to that of single radio-telescope ... balloon surveys, and design studies for very large atmospheric telescope; and (4) program for x-ray and gamma ray astronomy from High Energy Astronomy Observatories (HEADS) supported by ground- ...

... selected its payload specialists from among thousands of applicants from its member states. The Spacelab 1 mission would investigate stratosphere and upper atmosphere physics, materials processing, space plasma physics, life sciences ... in Europe. (NASA Release 78-76; Johnson Space Center JSC Roundup, June 1/78, 4; DRFC X-Press, June 1/78, 3) ESA announced it had organized a tour of several Mediterranean countries ...

... in the Astronomical Journal, had concluded that astronomers could quit looking for the elusive "Planet X" because it was not there. The planet's existence was inferred from what seemed to ... a new measurement of Neptune's mass made by Voyager in 1989. (NY Times, June 1/93) NASA announced that a remote-control technology used by Agency scientists to guide a ... specialist and pilot astronaut positions effective immediately. The cut-off date for applications was July 1, 1993. (NASA Release 93-101) UPI reported that a solar-powered drill used to bore ...

... first female Shuttle commander on Space Shuttle Columbia STS-93 , which had launched the Chandra X-ray Observatory . In July–August 2005, she had served as commander of Space Shuttle ... 2006, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/may/HQ_06208_Collins_retires.html (accessed 1 October 2009); Tariq Malik, “NASA’s First Female Shuttle Commander Retires from Spaceflight,” Space. ...

... ''' GEOFFREY TURNER 151 - CARTOONIST'S CORNER 152 - CORRESPONDENCE 153 - REVIEWS 154 - - '''Volume 1 Number 5''' '''OCTOBER 1957''' - EDITORIAL 158 - THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL FEDERATION An ... KEELER 324 - GLOSSARY OF ASTRONAUTICAL TERMS D. HURDEN 326 - NEWS OF THE X-15 FROM DON KARSHAN 328 - THE FIRST MOON ROCKET 329 - SKYDIARY A. ...

... small satellite control and communications systems, Earth observations, amateur radio communications and an X-Band radio science transponder. These CubeSats also include the first to be designed, ... CubeSat, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Jerry Buxton, vice president, Engineering, for AMSAT Fox-1 Courtney Duncan, principal investigator for LMRST-Sat, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, ...

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