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... a complete victim. They had absolutely no control. It was a failure in the Atlas booster. One of the Vernier thrusters got stuck and it pitched the whole vehicle over. The ... handover from the Department of Defense to NASA ops people officially took place when the booster cleared the launch tower. I got on the flight director loop when that happened. I ... , and it didn't get disturbed by the lightning, so it kept functioning. So the booster kept going. Then John Aaron, who happened to be on the EECOM Electrical, Environmental, and ...

... fully loaded rocket with 200-lb net pay­load. Rocket and instruments performed satisfactorily. Booster web burning time, booster pressure, acceleration, velocity, and system im­pact occurred as predicted. ''(NASA Rpt SRL ... in place. ESRO had prepared Highly Eccentric Orbiting Satellite ''(HEOS)'' for launch by U.S. booster in experiment which would be too high for naked eye to observe. Telescopic Schmidt cameras ...

... Administrator James E. Webb said: "This is to report to you that the Titan II booster which we expected to use on October 25 to launch GEMINI VI , carrying astronauts Schirra ... being removed from the launching pad. We have examined carefully the question of whether this booster could be used for the launching of Gemini VII into a 14-day orbit, and ... , there is some possibility that we could immediately re-erect the GEMINI VI spacecraft and booster and launch it in time to rendezvous with Gemini VII before the 14-day flight ...

... final vibration-test phase simulating the actual Space Shuttle situation just before solid-fuel rocket-booster separation after expending the solid propellant. (Marshall Star, Nov 15/78, 1) Almost all major ... components. The parachute-recovery subsystem for the left hand booster was at KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC ; the system for the right-hand booster was due Nov. 22. (Marshall Star, Nov 15/78 ...

... contract under which the firm assembled and processed solid-fuel rocket boosters for flight. The ships would locate and retrieve expended booster casings, parachutes, and other equipment from the Atlantic and deliver ... 1981; both would be used on each Shuttle mission, each retrieving one booster and its components. At liftoff, the boosters would burn simultaneously with the three-engine cluster on the Shuttle. After ...

NASA announced that the newest solid-fuel rocket booster retrieval ship, the U.S. Air Force's Independence, arrived at Kennedy Space Center for ... coast booster retrievals, towing one of the boosters and providing room for the majority of the crew and the six main parachutes and the bottoms for both boosters. The ship's first booster retrieval ... than July 15. The Air Force would lease another smaller ship to tow the other booster and carry the remainder of the 42-member retrieval crew. Independence, at 199 feet long ...

... Safety Review Board: “The Atlas No. 2 booster engine swiveled to an extreme hard over position about 10 sec. before booster engine cutoff. The other booster engine and the sustainer engine, acting under auto pilot control, continued to work to counter the asymmetrical thrust. “After booster separation, the vehicle ...

... .” ''(Hines, Wash. Eve. Star, 5/25/66, A1, A5)'' First full-scale Apollo/ Saturn V booster-spacecraft combination rolled out at NASA Kennedy Space Center exactly five years after President Kennedy ... Board announced it had pinpointed cause of the Atlas booster failure during the aborted GEMINI IX mission May 17: gimbaling of the booster engine which forced the Atlas-Agena into a hardover ...

... , US. must convert from "throwaway" hardware concept to use of maneuverable reentry vehicles and recoverable boosters, he added. This idea was echoed by NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight Dr ... Science and Technology said: ". . . if a family of reusable boosters is to be developed for reasons of economy then development cost per booster must he so low that economical amortization must be ...

... carrying 25,000 lbs of cargo and passengers, would be attached pickaback to booster stage's upper half. Booster, burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, would elevate orbiter to fringe of space ... ; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS AIAA Releases; AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS AIAA Booster, 10/20/69)'' Honored as new Honorary Fellows at Honors and Award Banquet Oct. 23 ...

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