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... Headquarters, Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL Director Dr. William H. Pickering said all instruments onboard MARINER II functioned as planned and the mission was virtually a complete success. NASA Administrator James E ... . Dr. Newell outlined significant interplanetary data already obtained from the four scientific instruments onboard MARINER II . " . . The plasma probe revealed a steady 'solar wind' at 250450 miles per second. The magnetometer ...

... the planet's magnetic field does not extend out as far as trajectory of MARINER II ; this observation was confirmed by onboard magnetometer. Cosmic-ray measurements during the probe's interplanetary ... slightly alter value and further reduce error. Preliminary results of solar-wind experiments by MARINER II were reported by Dr. Conway W. Snyder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL at American Geo ...

... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dropped its plans to launch some payloads on the Titan II in favor of launching them on the Space Shuttle see Space Transportation System /Revenues Feb. 25 and Oct. 18 , “bringing into question whether Titan II is cost-effective on a per launch basis,” the committee said. It also cited classified ...

... , France; and Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. ''RELEASE: 12-137 NASA RELEASES CALL FOR PHASE II VISIONARY ADVANCED CONCEPTS'' WASHINGTON -- The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is seeking proposals to ... I studies from the original NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts that did not complete Phase II. NASA's early investment and partnership with creative scientists, engineers and citizen inventors from across ...

... don't remember. '''Ambrose:''' You were what, a sophomore in high school when World War II ended? '''Armstrong:''' That's approximately—let's see. Yes, I was between my sophomore and ... originally scheduled to be launched on the Titan I. It later became obvious the Titan II might be available and be a better choice, and that gave increased performance, but still ... , not even the regular army officers, nobody had ever been in anything like World War II before it came about, and they had to rely on their training, but you had ...

... astronauts kind of these technical assignments, too, and I guess you had boosters on Titan II. Why did they give you that specialty, do you know? '''Borman:''' I have no idea ... was concerned about the ability to pull it off. But Pilot Ed Edward H. White II and Commander Jim James A. McDivitt were very anxious to do it; and, of course ... that Apollo was extremely important. I think it may have been, other than World War II,—it may have been the most important project in this century. '''Harwood:''' Do you look ...

... rather be married to a doctor. As I looked at engineering right after World War II, this probably sounds unbelievable now, but they were having convocations of the students in the ... graduate school at Ohio State, and they had been conversing with Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II , who was the founder of the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, about sending a ... had been the chief of aviation physiology for the German Air Force throughout World War II, and was a marvelous and patient teacher of the physiology of aviation. I couldn't ...

... held a lot of important posts, beginning with the wind tunnel work before World War II. You stayed there until 1968, I believe, when you held the post of Deputy Director ... point for me. We’ll sum it up: You began your career before World War II, and the dramatic airplanes that produced, and continued through space shuttle design; a fantastic sweep ... ’s been your favorite moment? '''Donlan:''' Favorite moment. Aeronautic-wise, the period between World War II and Korea probably, that saw the evolution of the modern jet fighters and the close ...

... what went wrong and come up with a better spacecraft. So there was a Block II version of the spacecraft that required many thousands of hours of redesign and, of course ... at what had been done and come up with other design improvements, like a Block II guidance and navigation system with a better computer and other improvements, as well as rectifying ... to become familiar with the design changes made in the course of developing the Block II command and service modules. And, yes, we felt very confident that what we ended up ...

... am a Depression baby, however. Although I was too young to serve in World War II, I had two older brothers who did serve in that war. I feel more and ... in the thirties, so they trained these guys up to be pilots. Then World War II happened, and at the end of the war, the Navy noticed that those people had ... was to precede Apollo 1, the flight that Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee were to have. We had three astronauts assigned to spend a ...

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