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... STATION'' HOUSTON --The launch of the H-II Transfer Vehicle "Kounotori2" (HTV2) planned for Thursday, Jan. 20, was rescheduled due to a forecast for weather conditions that would exceed launch restrictions. The ... and attachment of the cargo ship to the International Space Station remain planned for Thursday, Jan. 27, and also will be covered live on NASA Television. ''MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-012 NEXT ...

... Mars''' NASA’s Orion crew module will be available to media at two NASA locations Jan. 26th and in early February, as engineers continue to prepare the spacecraft to send astronauts ... orbit and on the journey to Mars. At 10:30 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 26, the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans will host a media viewing ... at 504-257-0478 or carl.j.howat@nasa.gov by 3 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25. International media accreditation for this event is closed. The Orion pressure vessel provides a ...

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... , Miss. -- Media representatives are invited to NASA& 39;s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Jan. 25 for a behind-the-scenes look at the facilities used for testing the J ...

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Navy Bureau of Steam Engineering was allocated $100,000 to contract for the development and purchase of 200-hp radial air cooled engines from the Lawrence Aero Engine Corp. The Daily Mirror newspaper in London shows image of the Cavorite sphere built for the Gaumont motion picture of H.G. Wells ''First Men in the Moon''.

Acting in response to a request from BuAer, the Navy Bureau of Engineering endorsed support for the National Bureau of Standards for the development of radio meteorographs. Later renamed radiosondes, these instruments were sent aloft on free balloons to measure pressure, temperature, and humidity of the upper atmosphere, and transmitted these data to ground stations for use in weather forecasting ...

Robert T. Jones, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley aeronautical scientist, formulated sweptback-wing concept to overcome shockwave effects at critical Mach numbers, and verified it in wind-tunnel experiments in March 1945 prior to learning of parallel German work. It was subsequently checked by the wing-flow technique before the first National Advisory Committee for ...

ICBM Scientific Advisory Committee to the Air Force was transferred to the Office of the Secretary of Defense to assure common interchange of technical information on all missile programs.

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-058'' ''NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR JPSS-1 SPACECRAFT'' WASHINGTON -- NASA on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a sole source contract for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo. This is a fixed price contract of $248 million with a performance period through Feb. 1 ...

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