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... accommodate the Saturn IB rocket, Army Corps of Engineers made the award. ''(AP, Miami Her., 2/3/65)'' Editorializing in the Washington Evening Star about "lean years" beginning for the aerospace ... there were concrete, finite objectives to be achieved with these funds.', ." ''(Hines, Wash. Eve. Star, 2/2/65)'' Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced plans to buy American military aircraft to replace British ...

... were invited to suggest experiments (1) involving the design and construction of entire spacecraft and (2) involving special characteristics or requirements calling for the development of a new Explorer spacecraft or ... recommended more re- search on possible control of these electrical forces. ''(Lear, Houston Chron., 3/2/65; Ind. Star, 3/7/65; WBE Sci. Serv.)'' A $1,366,511 contract for ... . . . ." ''(Testimony; NASA Auth. Hearings, 1-87)'' March 1965 March Mar 1 1965 1 Mar 2 1965 2 Mar 3 1965 3 Mar 4 1965 4 Mar 5 1965 5 Mar 6 1965 ...

... ,376,350 for construction of facilities; and $596,100,000 for administrative expenses. ''(CR, 6/2/ 65, 11816)'' NASA Administrator James E. Webb , testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee ... -km,) apogee and 100-mi. (161-km, perigee. Twelve minutes later, McDivitt fired the retrorockets; 2½ min. later he placed the spacecraft into slow rotation to reduce reentry dispersion. Communications with ...

... operational purposes." ''(NASA Release 65-229; NASA Release 65-197; AP, Wash. Eve, Star, 7/2/65, A3; KSC Spaceport News, 7/8/65, 4)'' PEGASUS II meteoroid detection satellite, orbited ... % and a contractor cost-share of 25%, would be $5,670,000-an increase of $2 million above the monthly level of funding for the four design contractors during the period ... were said to' have the capability for use as armed missiles. ''(Reuters, Wash, Post, 7/2/65)'' Statistics on intercontinental ballistic missiles were given by Robert R. Brunn in an article ...

... F-4 jet fighters for USAF, USN, and the Marines. ''(St, Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/2/65)'' Hamilton Standard delivered to NASA Manned Spacecraft Center a prototype portable life support system ... high-gain directional antenna to obtain data from the spacecraft for up to 10 mo.; (2) reliance solely on MARINER IV 's low-gain antenna for transmission, permitting two-way communications ... period of 567.11 days, perihelion of 1031 million mi., and aphelion of 146.2 million mi. ''(Watkins, Av. Wk., 8/2/65, 32)'' August 1965 August Aug 1 1965 1 Aug ...

... and wishes for further successes in the peaceful opening up of the cosmos." ''(Pravda, 9/2/65)'' Astronauts Leroy Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad , Jr., had demonstrated during their August 21 ... with that from TIROS X to prepare an advisory on Doreen. ''(Simons, Wash. Post, 9/2/65, A3)'' ComSatCorp invited 29 manufacturers to submit by September 30 proposals for communications and ...

... were in trajectories close to those calculated; all onboard equipment was functioning normally. ''(Tass, 12/2/65)'' President Johnson named Dr. Finn J. Larsen, Honeywell vice president, as Principal Director of ... Central Connecticut State College that the space budget would decline from $5 billion to about $2 billion by 1970 unless new space projects were proposed and approved soon, He was pessimistic ...

... funds. This is another unprecedented task for aerospace management to tackle. . . ." ''(Hotz, Av Wk, 1/2/67, 11)'' US. experts believed establishment of permanent lunar colonies and exploitation of lunar resources ... toward these objectives would include: (1) orbiting of three or four cosmonauts for three weeks; (2) extensive practice of extravehicular activity and assembly in orbit; (3) orbiting of animals to continue ...

... Post, 10/3/67, A3)'' NASA awarded supplementary or new research grants and contracts totaling $2,059,104 to 23 universities, colleges, and private institutions. ''(NASA Release 67-254)'' Texas' role ... danger . . . and enable spaceship crews to take necessary protective measures." ''(UPI, NYT, 10/3/67, 2)'' Under reduced gravity conditions on moon, most natural and comfortable gait for an astronaut would ...

... at FTC by USAF pilots Col. Joseph Cotton and L/C Emil Strumthal, reached mach 2.52 and 63,500-ft altitude in flight to test stability control and handling qualities. Other test objectives included: handling qualities at mach 1.2 and 40,000-ft altitude; unstarts; radar air speed calibration at mach 1.9 down ... 's largest operating mirror-now 20 years old, had diameter of 200 in. ''(SBD, 11/2/67,11)'' British Univ. of Bristol Prof. H. E. Hinton, speaking to the Royal Society ...

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