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Image:ConvairLM.jpg 400px Convair Lunar Module mockup (ca. 1962) Category:Lunar Vehicles

... joint NASA-Navy board investigating the April 12 mid-air collision of NASA's instrumented Convair 990 aircraft Galileo and a Navy P-3C Orion antisubmarine aircraft over Moffett Field, Calif ... P-3C was in the local landing pattern making touch-and-go landings and the Convair 990 was making a straight-in approach. "At initial contact with the control tower, the ... miles 5 km out, the con-trol tower operator cleared the Convair to land on Runway 32 Left. The Convair pilot acknowledged the new runway assignment. The control tower operator also cleared ...

... participant in the Atlas program starting in 1953 with the prime contractor, Convair-Astronautics. Mr. Walker began his career with Convair as a test engineer for Atlas, later moving to the Test ... control for Atlas. In his role of establishing the schedules of all work done at Convair-Astronautics, Mr. Walker came to know personally many of the people who were responsible for ... included. The book is profusely llustrated with over 100 black-and-white photographs from the Convair archives, many of which have never been published before, and there is also a section ...

... POWERED ORBITS IN CISLUNAR SPACE, Astronautics Symposium: Sponsored by A. F. Office Scientific Research and Convair Division, General Dynamics Corp. (Summary: AFOST-TR-57-41, AD120-430, Feb. 1957) 4- K ... COMMUNICATIONS WITH A MOON ROCKET, Astronautics Symposium: Sponsored by A. F. Office Scientific Research and Convair Division, General Dynamics Corp. (Summary: AFOST-TR-57-41, AD 120-430, Feb. 1957) 14 ...

... for NASA and for conversion of one USAF launch vehicle (SLV-3) to later configuration, Convair announced. ''( Convair Div Release 1481)'' USAF dedicated 365-ft-long, $3.3-million telescope on 9 ...

... " mandating the repair. After the agreement was reached, the director of product engineering for the Convair Division of General Dynamics, subcontractor to McDonnell Douglas for the fuselage (including the door), wrote ... assist in investigation of the Turkish Airlines crash, said in a recent interview that the Convair memoranda and other documentation that provided background to the technical decisions had been turned up ...

... in the Atlas program starting in 1953 with the prime contractor, Convair-Astronautics . Mr. Walker began his career with Convair as a test engineer for Atlas, later moving to the Test Planning ... Control for Atlas. In his role of establishing the schedules of all work done at Convair-Astronautics, Mr. Walker came to know personally many of the people who were responsible for ...

... international problems... ." ''(Text)'' NASA announced preliminary negotiations had begun to lease Convair 990 jet transport, with option to buy, from Convair Div. of General Dynamics Corp. The aircraft would be based at ...

A modified Convair 990A jet transport-NASA's new high-altitude research laboratory-carried 30 scientists from five ... speed of 587 mph, doubling observation time possible from a ground-based station. NASA's Convair 990 airborne research laboratory photograph of solar eclipse. First indications were that the mission was ...

... trip to the moon. ''(Transcript)'' NASA would contract a total of about $50 million with Convair Div, of General Dynamics Corp. and Honeywell, Inc., for five Centaur stages and guidance systems for use in Surveyor lunar-landing missions, Convair would manufacture, test, erect, and launch Atlas-Centaur boosters; Honeywell was developing the all-inertial ...

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