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... ago, and the same procedure had been scheduled for Viking spacecraft 2 Viking 2 . The spacecraft carried a backup as well as a prime battery charger, but NASA had not attempted to use it ... ) project to Goddard Space Flight Center , where the payload would be integrated' with its launcher, a Black Brant sounding rocket. The integrated unit would undergo checkout before being sent to N ...

... West Germany. Other NASA launches during the year would include 2 comsats for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; 2 maritime comsats (Marisats); Palapa , a comsat for the Indonesian government; the second Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-B); and Lageos, a laser geodynamic satellite to help alleviate ...

... sec for the 500-m race; Leah Poulos of Northbrook, Ill., set a U.S. national record of 2:13.98 for the 1500-m event, followed by Young and Nancy Swider of Park Ridge, Ill. The press chief of the Innsbruck organizing committee said a flood of ... a "frog suit" made of the new material. U.S. Olympic Committee officials said they had no knowledge of such suits, and team members were not available for comment. (W Star, 2 ...

... , and elsewhere described the comet's tail as 2 to 4 times the apparent diameter of the moon, unusually short for so bright a comet. NASA reported extensive observations of the comet ... ; smog or clouds might make ground observation difficult. (NYT, 2 Mar 76, 17; 9 Mar 76, 43; B :Sun, 3 Mar 76, A-3) February 1976 February March 1976 March Mar 1 1976 1 Mar 2 1976 2 Mar 3 1976 3 Mar 4 1976 4 Mar ...

... foam structure, a metal collector plate, and a transparent cover. The device needed no tools or fasteners, but could be fitted together, and required no insulation; it measured 1 by 2 m and ... , was the last planet to have scientists define its surface composition. (NYT 2 Apr 76, 37; W Post, 2 Apr 76, A-1; Science, 23 Apr 76, 362) March 1976 March April 1976 April Apr 1 1976 1 Apr 2 1976 2 Apr 3 1976 3 Apr 4 ...

... a wk to reach any conclusion from these results or those of the other two biology experiments, team members said. (NYT, l Aug 76, 1; W Post, 1 Aug 76, 1; 2 Aug 76, C-5; W Star, 2 Aug 76, A-1; WSJ, 2 Aug 76, 1) July 1976 July August 1976 August Aug 1 1976 1 Aug 2 1976 2 Aug 3 1976 3 Aug 4 ...

... would use its worldwide network of antennas besides providing instruments for the multichannel system, including a data processor capable of handling 6 million channels. NASA officials noted that the search would ... , A-5) Michel Bignier, Director General of the French ONES from Jan. 1972 to June 1976, assumed his new duties as director of ESA 'S Spacelab program. ( ESA newsletter, Nov 76, 2 ...

... was a significant shift to teaching. Scientists and engineers employed primarily as teachers increased 223 200 from 1975 to 1976 (3%); those working primarily in research and development increased 51 000 (2%). The number of women employed full time as scientists and engineers increased 5% from 1975 to 1976, a rate more than double that for men. (NSF Highlights, 2 Dec. 76, 1) A solar-powered microwave station, first of its type in ...

... it had selected Boeing Services Intl., Seattle, Wash., for final negotiations leading to award of a cost-plus-award-fee contract to provide ground-systems support for launch operations managed by ... .S. interplanetary spacecraft had confirmed that the planet Jupiter was emitting high-energy electrons over a vast region of space, Walter Sullivan reported in the NY Times. The spring meeting of ... belt (a greatly intensified version of earth's Van Allen belt), and the unusual brightness of Io on emerging from Jupiter's shadow had been attributed to particle activity. The 2 Voyager ...

... benefit, the group had agreed that national security considerations were the main hindrances to formulating a national space policy. The group had considered space-arms control (maximum pacification of space, with ... data (greater federal agency access); regulation of private-sector remote sensing (resolution limits); interagency management (a coordinating committee, to be chaired either by DOD and NASA, or by the President's ... . (AV Wk, Jan 2/78, 14) AV Wk reported NASA's announcement that it would send Pioneer 11 to fly just outside the rings of Saturn as a pathfinder for two Voyager ...

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