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... . We have made great strides in predicting the onset of these showers at our Sacramento Peak Observatory in New Mexico. "We can predict safe periods with increasing accuracy-better than most ... astro­nauts out of danger. "Even in the present state of the art, our Sacramento Peak predictions have been crucial to the safety of the astronauts participating in the Mercury program ...

... . Facilities at NASA installations in U.S. were worth more than $2.5 billion and peak 35,000 staff included some of Nation's top scientists. Industrial work force had peaked at 400,000 and was dropping to 200,000. NASA had established global tracking network ...

... at various altitudes and the changes which occurred during the period from sunset to dawn (peak altitudes: 118 mi., 119 mi., 119 mi., and 119 mi., respectively). . The other three were ionosphere experiments for the Univ, of Illinois and the Geophysics Corp. of America (peak altitudes: 97 mi., 99 and 106 mi., respectively). The main purpose of these tests was ...

... . altitude. Experiment was coordinated with similar grenade shot from Sweden's Kronogard Range (81-mi. peak altitude) and with another experiment launched there on a Nike-Apache rocket to measure noctilucent clouds (77-mi. peak altitude). These launchings marked beginning of third series of grenade experiments conducted by NASA GSFC ...

... Release 65-3; NASA Rpt. SRL)'' NASA successfully launched an Aerobee 150A sounding rocket to peak altitude of 110 mi. from Wallops Island, Va., with instrumented payload to measure the ultraviolet ... -field effects" also shaped as a letter "N" in terms of pressure patterns. The sharp peaks of this N-shaped wave were suspected of causing most of the annoyance and structural ...

... that once commercial service started, television networks could use the satellite system outside peak transatlantic telephone hours. The peak traffic hours were generally considered from about 9 a.m. to 3 p ...

... a Nike-Apache sounding rocket with a 63-lb. payload from Wallops Station , Va, to peak altitude of 98 mi. The experiment was conducted for the Graduate Research Center of the ... )'' NASA Aerobee 150 sounding rocket was successfully launched from White Sands, N. Mex., to a peak altitude of 154.5 km. (96 mi.). The primary experimental objective was to obtain ultraviolet ...

... , NASA announced. The Plum Brook Reactor , which produced 60,000 kw, of thermal power at peak operation, was being used in basic research relating to development of a nuclear rocket and ... a "dangerous mistake" to defer development of earth-orbital operational capabilities until financial and technical peak loads of Apollo had been passed: "The Soviets obviously have chosen the earth-orbital approach ...

... .pdf Space News for this day. (2MB PDF) Nike-Apache launched from Wallops Station to peak altitude of 95.3 mi. (153.1 km.), Purpose of flight, second of a series ... )'' Second two-stage Dragon sounding rocket launched by France from Skogasandur, Iceland, to 248-mi, peak altitude. Payload was instrumented to study protons and electrons in the Van Allen radiation belt ...

... instruments functioned as planned, and good data were expected. The third also performed well, although peak altitude (91 mi.) was somewhat below predicted, and good data were expected. No data were obtained from the fourth flight, although instrumentation functioned well: peak altitude was only 14.8 mi. because of a burnthrough at the Apache headcap and ...

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