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... . Bleymaier (USAF), Commander of the Western Test Range , for "exceptional direction to Titan space booster R&D program"; the Octave Chanute Award to Alvin S. White, Chief Engineering Test Pilot/ XB-70 Project Pilot ... "; the John Jeffries Award to Col. William K. Douglas ( USAF ) , Director of Bioastronautics, USAF National Range Div., for "outstanding contributions to the advancement of aeronautics and astronautics, his writings, lectures, and ...

... spacecraft's assessed performance . . . in its unplanned elliptical orbit," NASA announced. Satellite, launched from Eastern Test Range ETR April 5 on mission to evaluate gravity-gradient system for spacecraft stabilization, had remained ... -141)'' NASA turned on the last of 11 experiments onboard Explorer XXXIV satellite, launched from Western Test Range WTR May 24. Data from experiments, designed to measure solar and galactic rays, were being ...

... after successfully completing final contractor instrumentation systems tests. Ship docked in Hoboken, N.J., where it would undergo inspection and instrumentation adjustments before range testing and final preparations in Florida for Apollo 503 ... via land lines, microwave, submarine cables, and comsats. Operation of Apollo ships was assigned to Western Test Range WTR ; crew was provided by Military Sea Transport Service, and technical instrumentation crew by USAF ...

... -22: NASA’s 2,204-1b. SURVEYOR II (Surveyor B) was successfully launched from Eastern Test Range ETR ’s Complex 36 at 8:32 a.m. EDT. After excellent injection by Atlas ... GSFC flight test of proposed new Aerobee booster. Instrumentation performed satisfactorily, and booster performance was excellent. ‘‘(NASA Rpt. SRL)’’ USAF launched unidentified satellite with Thor-Agena D booster from Western Test Range WTR . ‘‘(US ...

... was assigned additional responsibilities as program director of the NASA portion of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project . In Dec. 1972 he was appointed Director of Marshall Space Flight Center , a position ... Release 75-24) 9-22 April: NASA launched Geos 3 Geodynamic Experimental Ocean Satellite from Western Test Range at 4:50 pm PDT on a two-stage Thor-Delta 1410 launch vehicle. The ...

... the Manned Orbiting Laboratory MOL . Titan the Standard Launch Vehicle 5A, completed two highly successful test launches. Systems Command also provided support to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This included ... $8,052,000 cost-plus-incentive contract for Agena D launch services at Eastern and Western Test Range s during calendar year 1965, DOD announced. ''(DOD Release 87-65)'' Maj. Gen. George P ...

... Ottawa. Facilities would go into full-scale operation when first experimental ERTS was launched from Western Test Range. ''(RCA Release)'' U.S. patent No. 3 662 744 was awarded to General Electric Co ... esthesiometer invented under NASA contract. Instrument, for possible use on Skylab , could also help physicians test patients' skin perception. User touched skin with flexible nylon wire projecting from instrument to measure ...

... were tentatively scheduled during 1967 from Western Test Range. ''(NASA Release 64-178)'' USAF successfully sent a delta-winged Asset glider through a 12,000-mph re-entry test in an experiment designed to ... -182)'' Japan launched its first meteorological sounding rocket from the National Space Development Center's testing range on Iwo Jima Island. The two-stage rocket reached 68.2-mi. altitude. ''(AP, NYT ...

NASA launched EXPLORER XX scientific satellite into orbit from Western Test Range , Calif., using Scout booster rocket. Initial orbit: 625-mi. apogee, 540-mi. perigee, 104-min. ... and Hubert Humphrey as Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, were broadcast to 15 countries in western Europe's Eurovision network via TELSTAR II communications satellite. ''(AP, Wash. Post, 8/19/64 ...

... P. Stafford as command pilot and Eugene A. Cernan , pilot, was successfully launched from Eastern Test Range ETR by Titan II booster on GEMINI IX -A mission to evaluate extravehicular life-support ... :GT09A2_P.PDF Gemini Titan 9 Commentary flight transcript USAF launched two unidentified satellites from Western Test Range WTR with Atlas-Agena D booster. (U.S. Aeron. & Space Act., 1966, 151)'' Lockheed Aircraft ...

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