Jan 19 1969
From The Space Library
NASA Nike-Cajun sounding rocket, second in series of four [see Jan. 17] in NASA-SSRC-SRC cooperative program, was successfully launched from Kiruna, Sweden, to study sudden upper-atmosphere warming conditions by detonating grenades between 24.9- and 55.9-mi (40- and 90-km) altitudes. Vehicle underperformed but satisfactory scientific data were expected. (NASA Release, 69-16; NASA Rpt SRL)
NASA announced appointment of Robert W. Kamm, Assistant to Director of Space Institute of Univ. of Tennessee, as consultant to Harold B. Finger, NASA Associate Administrator for Organization and Management. Kamm had been director of NASA's Western Support Office, Santa Monica, Calif., for nearly nine years. (NASA Special Release)
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