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... to explore all five outer planets in late 1970s were cut back to focus on Jupiter and Saturn with less expensive spacecraft; and NASA and Atomic Energy Commission’s nuclear engine ... rocket development in the US. His NASA career had begun in 1960 when his Army Ballistic Missile Agency team-which had launched first US. satellite, Explorer 2 in 1958-was transferred to ... .8 billion to Dept. of Defense, up from $12.6 billion to DOD in 1971; missile sales to DOD at $5.2 billion, up from $4.7 billion; and military aircraft ...

... XXIX 's four lamps, In this first programed exercise, the Jupiter Calibration Experiment, the cameras were positioned side-by-side at the Jupiter, Fla, Baker-Nunn Camera Station of the Smithsonian Astrophysical ... . It showed a picture of the 120-ft, ballistic missile that was displayed last May in a Moscow parade and reported that the missile was a sister vehicle to the "mighty booster" that ...

Army activated the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) at Redstone Arsenal , Huntsville, Ala., to weaponize the Redstone and to develop the Jupiter missile Jupiter IRBM.

Army Jupiter missile Jupiter launched with NASA biomedical experiment from Cape Canaveral , destroyed by a range officer after fishtailing. ... , following the meeting, began negotiations with NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan to transfer the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (and, therefore, Saturn ) to NASA. ''To Amend the National Aeronautics and Space Act of ...

... , probably came from sunlight scattering in upper-atmosphere clouds. Jet streams like those seen on Jupiter appeared to whirl around Saturn at speeds of 300 mph. Pioneer images could give a ... benefit of Pioneer's Saturn flyby were early-warning satellites designed to detect U.S. ballistic missile attacks on the Soviet Union. Cosmos 1024, 1109, and 1124 had suspended transmissions September 1 ...

... into trying to come up with materials that would be able to withstand a ballistic reentry of ballistic missiles, I began to look at various kinds of materials that would be able to ... ballistic missile entry studies, had just recently flown a ballistic nose cone which was a fairly sharp nose cone, using resin, phenolic resin, glass and phenolic resin material, as a combination for the ballistic ...

... configuration. I’d been doing a lot of research on ballistic missiles, ballistic warheads in essence. That’s all this is, just a modified ballistic warhead configurationwise, that’s all it is. So I ... did is because at that time the aerospace industry was heavily involved in developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. The people that had been doing the research at Langley were in high regard throughout ...

... as Deputy Chief of the Guided Missile Development Division at Redstone Arsenal . Among the projects Rees had managed were the Hermes II Project, the Redstone and Jupiter missile programs, the Explorer satellite project, and the Saturn program. Between 1956 and 1960, Rees had been Deputy Director of the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency 's Development Operations ...

... and SS-25 intercontinental ballistic missiles, launch of two units of new Delta IV-class of strategic ballistic missile submarines to be fitted with the SS-NX-23 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) then being flight tested, and completion of sea trials of a third 25,000-ton Typhoon-class strategic ballistic missile ...

... ­listic missiles are short range, and generally are not comparable to our Polaris force. The Soviets pose a very large threat against Europe, including hundreds of intermediate and medium-range ballistic missiles. This ... have been used at Atlantic Missile Range AMR for more than three years in a program gathering data on infrared charac­teristics of the exhaust plumes of ballistic missiles, according to Aviation Week ...

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