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... . Lionel Van Derelin ''(D.-Calif.)'' said in a telegram to J. R. Dempsey, president of General Dynamics-Astronautics : "Spectacular success of the Ranger moon shot should not overshadow the equally spectacular record of ...

... in 48 hours, first such repair while booster was upright on the pad. Effort of General Dynamics/Astronautics crew was necessitated by fuel leak. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center announced the selection ...

... -test the Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application Nerva nuclear rocket engine. The firms were General Dynamics/ Astronautics, Lockheed Missile and Space Company, and Martin Marietta Corp. When selected, the contractor would be ...

... environmental problems of man in space, held in Paris. USAF awarded $78 million contract to General Dynamics/Astronautics for a standardized Atlas space launch vehicle, to be known as Atlas Contract covered design ...

... liaison with Apollo Spacecraft Program Office. Prior to joining NASA was public relations representative with General Dynamics/Astronautics 1961-63; executive editor, Independence, Mo. Examiner 1959-61; city editor, Kansas City Kansan 1957 ...

... contact did you have with the astronauts? '''Kehlet:''' I had a lot of contact. The big fight with the astronauts was the instrument panel display. Every astronaut wanted his own little peculiarity, it ... Caldwell. But we had three study contracts on the Apollo. General Electric had one, and Martin Company had one, and Convair, General Dynamics, had one. We would do what was called the red ...

... . of Astronautics, IV-I, 9, Spring 1957 13 - R. T. Gabler, TRACKING AND COMMUNICATIONS WITH A MOON ROCKET, Astronautics Symposium: Sponsored by A. F. Office Scientific Research and Convair Division, General Dynamics Corp. (Summary: AFOST-TR-57-41, AD 120-430, Feb. 1957) 14 - R. W. Buchheim, GENERAL REPORT ON ...

... captured my imagination. I was working in General Dynamics at the time, and I helped work on the proposal for General Dynamics. It turned out, of course, that General Dynamics did not win the proposal. In ... in terms of navigation and guidance. You were going to use a Star Tracker, where astronauts actually measured the angles between stars, just as the old sailors used to do, only ...

... ended up back at General Dynamics Corp. , Convair in the early days it was called, and then it changed its name to General Dynamics. At the time I came back to General Dynamics, they were working ... this whipped." And the first flight we flew, and we got up there and the astronauts started their little maneuvers, the whole board turned on. Now, what happened was these thrusters ...

... the TFX (Tactical Fighter Experimental) Program, later designated the F-111, which Boeing competed with General Dynamics for and lost. From there, went to the C-5 Program which we were competing ... a comfortable familiarity.” So, and with that, every astronaut after that was trained in the LLTV and there were no more crashes involving astronauts. But they were doing a test flight on ...

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