Oct 23 1966
From The Space Library
France had requested that Astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr., and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., photograph sodium vapor trail of Centaure sounding rocket during NASA's Gemini XII mission scheduled for launch Nov. 9. Sounding rocket-to study winds up to 400 mph at high altitudes would be launched from Hammaguir Range on signal from Gemini Mission Control at MSC. Experiment would be first by foreign government to be part of a US. manned space flight. (Wash. Post, 10/23/66, A10; AP, Wash. Sun. Star, 10/23/66, A7)
JPL had awarded $200,000 contract to Avco Corp.'s Space Div. for task work in JPL's new $1.5 million Sterilization Assembly Development Laboratory (SADL) . Starting in mid-1967, SADL would be sterilization testing headquarters for Voyager spacecraft, scheduled for Mars landing in the 1970s. (JPL Release)
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