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... Corp. in bade County, Fla.: maximum chamber pressure was recorded 40 sec. into test, with peak thrust level of more than 3.5 million lbs.; motor burned 114 sec. near peak thrust before tapering off; total useful thrust time was 129.9 sec.-only .1 sec. ...

... varied from $1,800 for first 10 min. and $32 each additional minute during non-peak hours, to $3,000 for first 10 min. and $48 each additional minute during peak hours. ''( ComSatCorp Release)'' Roll D. Ginter, NASA Centaur Program Manager, became Director of Office of ...

... with slump blocks, terrace, and radial dry-debris avalanche chutes on steep inner surfaces; central peaks, polygonal outlines, blocky ejecta rims, and irregular ejecta; and irregularly sinuous ridges. Differences included more subdued relief of many Martian craters, flatter floors, fewer central peaks, more subdued debris blankets, absence of obvious secondary craters and rays, and greater abundance of ...

... in U.S. in decade, telescope would expand solar research capability of USAF's Sacramento Peak Observatory and provide unequaled image stability. Telescope would be used for research on solar centers of activity-sunspots, magnetic fields, solar flares, and plage areas. Sacramento Peak solar research was endeavoring to identify causal relationships to predict solar energy variations and environmental ...

... an agreement with NASA. Major problem under study by Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories' Sacramento Peak Observatory was the prediction of safe intervals for manned space flight. Since March 1961, intensive ... and arriving at the earth from 30 minutes to 6 hours after the flare has peaked. One major flare out of every four produces proton showers which follow the 11-year ...

... launch, satellite would orbit in 600-mi. circular path where radiation of new belt reached peak intensity. Also reportedly postponed was launching of Canada's S-27 Alouette satellite, planned for 625-mi. circular polar orbit. Center of peak electron intensity in the new belt had shifted from 16,000 mi. above the earth ...

... made under these austere conditions that we would terminate that production and take the savings." Peak NASA expenditure of $6 billion in 1965 included outlay for buildup of total NASA base ... we will be operating at a substantially lower space activity than we had at the peak. It reflects more the fact that the base is now completed; we can put a ...

... 1971 would be about 25% less than in FY 1970 and about half FY 1966 peak. "We are able to make these rapid changes . . . as the result of two fundamental policies ... , program was "probably larger than ours." It was "about equivalent to our program at its peak." U.S.S.R. was "putting close to two percent of their GNP into their ...

... civilian aircraft in 1970 would drop to $14 billion, down $3.4 billion from 1968 peak, Dan Cordtz wrote in Fortune. Employment was off 15% from 1969, "with further substantial lay ... , Fiscal Years 1969, 1970, and 1971 (NSF 70-36). Federal funds for R&D reached peak $16.5 billion in 1967, $15.6 billion in 1969, and were expected to remain ...

... in 1971. Current level of Soviet space activity exceeded that of U.S. at its peak in 1966, with perhaps 2% of Soviet gross national product devoted to space (U.S. spent about 1% of its GNP at peak). Although U.S. launch record had been declining steadily since 1966, Soviet launches had continued ...

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