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... and starts to talk to McDonnell-Douglas and they start calling it Mercury Mark VII. Obviously, Mark VII is not a very good name. But anyway, it starts to become something. It ... the name of what it was. I think we'd stopped calling it the Mark VII and something else, some other name. Anyway, we were in the process of looking for ...

... hand controllers that were used on the LLRV 1 and 2 were Gemini VI and VII flight controllers. In my interview with Ivan D. Ertel, I said they were off of VII and VIII flight vehicles, which that’s probably more correct since that was very shortly ... with the Gemini controller that they’d modified that I’d gotten from either Gemini VII or VIII and a modified T-handle for the descent rockets that we had on ...

... of a significant magnetic field on Mars as was determined by the Mariner magnetometer experiment. "5. As we had anticipated, Mariner photos neither demonstrate nor preclude the possible existence of life on ... that we would revive consideration of another flight." Mr. Webb said that the MARINER IV flight, including the MARINER III attempt that failed, "cost over $100 million," He continued: "Dr. Pickering and ...

... , but the intent is that, as you’ve heard about the Marine Corps, every Marine’s a rifleman, and so every Marine officer has to be a rifle platoon commander, or at least ... to Thailand?” She said, “Well, Time,” or Newsweek, “just had an article about this secret Marine Corps base in the middle of Thailand, that President Nixon has really put aviation units ... know if I don’t apply.” So I put an application in through the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps nominated me to NASA for the space program, and then I was fortunate ...

... been there? '''Dinkel:''' Yes, sir. In fact, I lived there. When I retired from the Marine Corps, I worked at the Naval Air Development Center NADC , which is now closed, all ... Buffalo ever shot down anything. It was so busy getting shot down itself. '''Dinkel:''' The Marines flew them at Wake, if you remember, and didn't do well. '''Cortright:''' Did they ... quite a few. Even before Viking, there were—I think Mariner 9 was the last successful Mariner, or maybe there was a Mariner 11. I don't remember anymore, because I was down ...

... on its next closest approach to earth around Sept, 4, 1967, were being considered by Mariner project planners at Jet Propulsion Laboratory , Aviation Week and Space Technology reported: (1) attempted reacquisition ... manager at Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL , told Aviation Week and Space Technology Aviation Week that MARINER IV would be of particular scientific interest in 1967. First, there were no other interplanetary ...

... in converting and operating spacecraft designed for flight to Mars into one flown to Venus. MARINER V carried automatic sensing devices to record data for derivation of radiation levels, temperatures, pressures, magnetic fields, and atmospheric density near Venus. First Venus probe, Mariner I , was destroyed during launch July 22, 1962; second, Mariner II , was successfully launched Aug. 27, 1962, and flew within 21 ...

... .S. Forces in Japan. He later served as the Commanding General of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, Calif., from 2000 until 2002, before retiring from the Marine Corps in 2003. Bolden's many military decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal and ... NASA EXPERIENCE: Nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, retired Marine Corps Major General Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., began his duties as the twelfth Administrator of ...

... 1971. Experience Springer received a commission in the United States Marine Corps following graduation from Annapolis in 1964. He attended the Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico, Virginia, before reporting to the ... Outstanding Young Men in America in 1977. Special Honours While serving in the United States Marine Corps, Springer received the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Navy Distinguished Flying Cross ...

... spacecraft was presented at annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C,: MARINER IV , launched Nov. 28, 1964, was on course to fly by Mars shortly after 9 ... earth. It had traveled 221,330,000 mi, on its journey of 325 million miles, MARINER IV had returned a considerable amount of scientific data. A cosmic ray telescope aboard the ... team of scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC and Temple Univ. indicated that MARINER IV was encountering increasing amounts of cosmic dust as it moved further away from the ...

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