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... to Schirra's main comm-system. Image:100YearsCanadianSlide24.JPG right thumb Alouette on Mercury and Starfish Prime Communication was vastly improved by the dipole capability of STEM. Schirra later commented in his ... ''." One of the little known functions of Alouette was also to study the remnants of Starfish Prime, the United States' space detonation of a nuclear warhead, which had taken place the previous ...
... been accumulated from high­ altitude nuclear explosions in Project Argus, 1958, Operation Hardtack, 1959, and Starfish Prime , July 9,1962. The AEC report said that a 50-megaton blast at 50-mi ... . Today the moon and space programs are in high gear and almost $5 billion in prime contracts have been placed with Ameri­can industry. Plants are tooled up, scientists are on ...
... make repeated rapid checks of effects of a man-made radiation belt of high-energy "Starfish" electrons formed from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean in 1962, and subsequent tests conducted for Project Fish Bowl, a high-altitude weapon test, Starfish electrons were estimated to have a possible life of up to 20 yrs., during which ... , warned that increased solar activity in years ahead would greatly affect the lifetimes of the Starfish electrons, making the computer relatively useless after 1966. ''(Sci, Serv, NYT, 7/18/ 65, 27 ...
... . 26, 1962, to study artificial radiation, had discovered evidence that radi­ation from U.S. Starfish high-altitude nuclear test would last up to 10 years, Project Director Dr. Ludwig Katz ...
... pressures on the scientific community arising from such major U.S. space programs as Apollo, Starfish, and West Ford constituted a "serious erosion of the integrity of science." The report was ...
... measurements on Van Allen radiation belts and gauge decay of residual radiation in man-made Starfish Belt. Equipment, expected to relay data for one year, was functioning normally. ''(Wallops Release 66 ...
... getting stuck in Neil A. Armstrong's flight. '''Bostick:''' Oh, yes, I was again the prime flight dynamics officer, so I did the launch phase and then the rendezvous and docking ... Hodge, as I recall, was the flight director that was on my shift, on the prime shift that had gone through launch phase and the rendezvous and docking. Anyway, he decided ... like that on board, obviously, in case something happens to the ground. But we were prime and our answers were right. We never let Buzz forget it. Laughter But he had ...
... this setup was—and it carried through on Shuttle—you had a situation where the prime contractor didn't have responsibility over the guidance and control. From where I sat, it ... that that happens where one agency is looking at another agency's work and another prime contractor. So I think we were doing a job that needed doing there, particularly the ... centralized system. And it also evolved in the same way as Apollo, in that the prime contractor didn't have the responsibility for the onboard software. He had responsibility for the ...
... there because it was such a complicated spacecraft. On Apollo, I had one prime electrical system going, one prime environmental system going. Environmental control system and electrical power. Technically I only had ... were responsible for. Like the environmental control systems guy also had the cryogenics, which was prime on 13. It turned out that everybody got affected, electrical power and the fuel cells ...
... for examples of other countries that had made expensive cancellations. ''"To illustrate the dilemma, the Prime Minister would like to have available factual information which would enable him to show that ... Apollo program and explained lunar orbit rendezvous to Diefenbaker. Diefenbaker later stated, ''"The difference between Prime Minister MacMillan's position and my own was that if the United States acted in ...

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