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... " of undone work and other items needing completion before shipping Columbia to KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC . Investigators said Level l "broad and detailed involvement" with technicalities meant less time for cost ... offices at Johnson Space Center JSC , MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC , and KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC ; cooperation between the operations and program offices was evident, but transition from development to operations ...

... -31: NASA STS-8 at 2:32:02 EDT August 30 from KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC after a 17-minute hold because of thunderstorms passing through. "Tropical disturbance" Barry had moved ... Shuttle launch. NASA was testing its ability to launch at night from KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC , where weather was often more favorable than in the daytime. The DOD wanted a demonstration ... Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert of California instead of KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC , because of the longer run-way and the greater probability of good weather there in ...

... had ordered the ship home early, apparently because weather conditions for a KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC landing had deteriorated. Sources reported the crew had released a spy satellite during the first ... 's orbit parameters. Four private planes had violated the security zone around KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC during preparations for Discovery 's landing, the Washington Post reported the Air Force as saying ...

The turnaround clock began running when the Space Shuttle Discovery left the KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC launch pad at 8:59 a.m. April 12 and stopped 70 hours and 35 ... launch of the Spacelab 3 mission, "hard down" on the pad, the KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC Spaceport News reported. The tightly coordinated effort began approximately one minute after Discovery 's launch ... "hard down" on the pad at 6:25 a.m. April 15. ( KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC Spaceport News, Apr 26/85, 4) NASA announced that Edward Taylor, a technician at Langley ...

... Force Base , California, as the primary end-of-mission landing site, with KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC as an alternate. Landing was set for May 6 at 12:03 EDT. NASA selected ... blow out. Landing conditions had included a crosswind-the first experience at KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC of such conditions-and a higher-than-usual sink rate. A landing at Dryden would ... engineers to determine what corrective actions were appropriate before returning to the KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC runway for nominal end-of-mission landings. (NASA Release 85-63) NASA announced it selected ...

... the Space Shuttle fleet, returned for operational duty to Kennedy Space Center ( KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC ), the Johnson Space Center JSC Roundup reported. Columbia had undergone hundreds of modifications to reconfigure ... the first five Space Shuttle missions, and NASA modified the spacecraft at KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC for the October 1983 STS-9 Spacelab 1 flight. Following its return to KENNEDY SPACE ...

... determining baseline data, sources of problems, and possible solutions. Such equipment at KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC , for example, pinpointed engine gas leaks during the first mission of the orbiter Challenger and ... the overpressure problem that occurred during the first Space Shuttle launch. The KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC engineering development directorate, with the assistance of Planning Research Corp., completed design, management, and integration ...

... use information from the studies to design advanced lightning protection systems for KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC facilities and for greater protection for aircraft such as the Space Shuttle that contained electronic ... three-dimensional photos of lightning strikes. In addition to hosting the project, KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC was contributing funding to some of the university research. Project managers hoped to attract more ...

... . (PRC) to provide engineering services for the Directorate of Engineering Development at KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC and at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB). The $12,421,841 extension brought the total ... under the contract was to provide KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC with designs for Space Shuttle cargo ground-support equipment. ( KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC Release 186-85) At 44 million miles from earth ...

... missions underscored the need for improved weather forecasting at Kennedy Space Center ( KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC ). NASA along with the U.S. Air Force developed a plan to improve the quality ... manner in which it was presented to the forecaster, Spaceport News reported. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC officials recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Range Control Center on Cape Canaveral ...

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