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... to Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL Deep Space Facilities, Goldstone, Calif. Landing sequence began when Surveyor VI shifted its normal cruising attitude to position main retrorocket. Triggered by radar, main retromotor slowed ... halted Nov. 24 to preserve battery power during cold of lunar night. Performance of Surveyor VI was nearly flawless. SURVEYOR I (launched May 30,1966) , SURVEYOR III (launched April 17,1967 ...

... been turned on and were operating satisfactorily. Two 30-ft antennas had been deployed. Ogo VI was sixth and last spacecraft in NASA's OGO series. Scientific instrumentation for OGO ... 10 U.S. universities, 1 foreign university, 4 Government centers, and 5 private companies. OGO VI joined four other operational OGO's - OGO I (launched Sept. 4, 1964), OGO III (launched ... earth's magnetic field, resulting in proposed new magnetic field model June 5-8: OGO VI-sixth and last of NASA's Orbiting Geophysical Observatory series-carried 25 experiments into orbit ...

... Soyuz IV and Soyuz V Jan. 14-18. Western speculation, later confirmed, was that Soyuz VI would rendezvous with other spacecraft. Soyuz VII, carrying Cosmonauts Anatoly V. Filipchenko, Vladislav N. Volkov ... orbiting stations." Tass reported crews had checked out equipment and communicated with each other. Soyuz VI was conducting medical-biological tests, Soyuz VII was observing and photographing earth and celestial bodies ...

... followed by five additional successful Tiros satellites, the last two of which- TIROS V and vi-were still in operation after more 'than nine and six months respectively. To date, TIROS ... ­mitted more than 44,000 useful cloud-system photographs and TIROS VI , more than 39,000. TIROS V and TIROS VI VI photographed hurri­canes and typhoons in July, August, and September 1962 ...

... . Tereshkova , first woman in Space, conducted by U.S.S.R. Launched from Baikonur , VOSTOK VI completed 48 earth orbits in 70 hrs. 50 min,; initial orbital path was 141-mi ... ; the two cosmonauts then radioed joint message to Premier Khrushchev. Tass stated flight of VOSTOK VI was being made "to continue the Study of the effect of various space-flight factors ... of piloted spaceships in con­ditions of simultaneous flight." During initial orbit VOSTOK V and VI came within about five km. (three mi) of each other, apparently closest distance achieved. Cosmonaut ...

... .pdf Space News for this day. (2MB PDF) One-year anniversary of orbiting of TIROS VI meteoro­logical satellite, its year-long operational lifetime setting new record for weather satellites. On July 31, 1963, TIROS VI dis­covered first hurricane (Arlene) of 1963 season in tropical Atlan­tic; altogether, TIROS ... around the world based on some of the 63,000 cloud-cover pictures from TIROS VI . ''(NASA Release 63­209: Commerce Dept. Release WB 63-11)'' Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn ...

... and docking mission in the Gemini program, Simultaneous countdown of both the Titan II - GEMINI VI and the Atlas-Agena had been developed to maximize launch reliability for a "same day ... the Carnarvon station was unsuccessful. A hold was called at T-42 in the GEMINI VI countdown to determine the status of the Agena Target Vehicle. Mission was terminated at 10:54 a.m. because the Agena Target Vehicle had failed to achieve orbit, Formal Gemini VI mission failure investigation was immediately initiated. ''(NASA Release 65-237; Marshall Star, 11/3/65 ...

... AFB, Fla. ''(Eglin AFB Release 65449)'' Gemini VII would be launched Dec. 4 and Gemini VI Dec. 13 in a combination long-duration, rendezvous mission, NASA announced. Astronaut Frank Borman (L ... M. Schirra (Capt. USN) and Pilot Thomas P. Stafford (Maj., USAF) would maneuver the GEMINI VI spacecraft within close proximity of Gemini VII during the fourth revolution and station-keep for ...

Attempt to launch Gemini VI from ETR was unsuccessful when an electric plug connecting the Titan II booster to the ... , 12/13/65, Al; Simons, Wash, Post, 12/13/65, Al; MSC Gemini VII / Gemini VI Fact Sheet)'' Statement by President Johnson on the delay of the Gemini VI flight: "We are all disappointed that GEMINI VI did not go off as expected. But our disappointment is exceeded by ...

... KSC, Astronauts Schirra and Stafford personally thanked the 400 men responsible for the successful Gemini VI launching. The astronauts would undergo medical examinations and debriefings for three days and then fly ... released clear, detailed, color and black and white photographs of the Gemini VII -VI rendezvous taken by the Gemini VI astronauts. ''(UPI, Wash, Post, 12/18/65, El)'' Jerome Lederer, director of ...

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