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... capabilities and achievements.” ‘‘(NASA Auth. Hearings, 64-65)’’ Summarizing NASA’s launch vehicle and propulsion program in testimony before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics’ Subcommittee on Space Science and ... to terminate Mariner program, fly extra Mariner C spacecraft to Venus in 1967, drop plans for 1971 Voyager launch, and “fill the gap” with an abbreviated 1969 Atlas-Centaur program. U.S.S.R., they noted, had spent “between five and ten times as much on flight programs for planetary exploration” as U.S. and ...

... career with NASA in 1960 as chief of the Scout vehicle program. He later held several positions including director of the Centaur program, for which he received NASA's Exceptional Service Medal; director of the Technology Applications Division; director of the Energy Systems Division; and assistant administrator for energy programs. (NASA anno ...

... hours. ''( ComSatCorp Release)'' Roll D. Ginter, NASA Centaur Program Manager, became Director of Office of Advanced Research and Technology OART 's newly established Space Flight Programs Div. He would be responsible for mission ... disaster," Ira C. Eaker wrote in San Antonio Express: "Such desertion of our present space program would give the Soviets an advantage they are now striving mightily to achieve. The U ...

... report based on NASA’s authorization hearings and two days of specific testimony on the Centaur program. NAA announced that the 1961 Robert J. Collier Trophy, U.S. aviation's highest honor ... that the Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC) civilian retraining program begun in October 1957 has proved to be highly successful. According to AFLC program director Eric W. Jordan, 80,000 civilian employees ...

... satellite would continue global research of ionosphere, including temperature and concentration of electrons, in cooperative program of socialist countries to study different cosmic ray particles and micrometeoroids which influenced weather, climate ... electronic design of the Nike, Sparrow, Thor and Skybolt Systems, management and direction of the Centaur program and his perceptive leadership in military research and development." ''( American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ...

... prior to NASA appointment. NASA Hq. requested Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC to redirect the Centaur program toward primary mission of Surveyor lunar landing. USAF Office of Aerospace Research announced establishment of ...

... 30, 1986. Under the contract, PRC would design ground-support systems for the Space Shuttle/Centaur program, which NASA would use to inject space vehicles into interplanetary trajectories after deployment from the ...

... of operation. NASA had built the complex in the early 1960s, specifically for its Atlas-Centaur program, which included the launches of NASA's historic Surveyor, Mariner, and Pioneer missions. Launches from ...

... Shuttle Centaur up because it was so heavy. The whole integration of the Shuttle Centaur had its problems, which were being managed out of the Lewis Research Center. Lewis had been the program managers for Centaur, Atlas Centaur, and so they knew the ...

... isolated failure to integrated circuit in pitch channel of rate gyro preamplifier in Centaur stage autopilot. When Atlas- Centaur ignited, "amplifier output was . . . only 20 to 40 percent of what it should ... be worth nothing in terms of meeting the country's needs. And a slow program-or no program-is all we are going to have with-out the strong support of the ... established community chapters called "Earth I Care" clubs, mostly on school campuses; started "Summer Scientist" program to study pollution; established newsletter; presented awards for concern with environmental quality; and produced slides ...

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