Feb 8 1964
From The Space Library
NASA Manned Spacecraft Center announced $133,358 contract was awarded to AiResearch Manufacturing Co. Div. of Garrett Corp. for design and production of extravehicular pressurization ventilation system to be used by astronauts in Project Gemini. (UPI, San Diego Union, 2/9/64)
Major Robert A. Rushworth (USAF), X-15 pilot, said at Texas A&M Univ. that "we stand about half-way in the amount of work we want to do" with the X-15 aircraft. "In the next four years, we want to get another one hundred flights under our belts." Describing the X-15A-2 plane for advanced missions, he said the new aircraft would range up to 80 mi. altitude at speed of 5,450 mph, with help of hydrogen-fueled ramjet engine and 13,500 additional pounds of fuel. (UPI, Omaha World Herald, 2/9/64)
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