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... came up as a big help later on when we got asked to do the Viking program. They had a problem I might mention at this time before I forget. The Viking was the first Mars landers we had, Viking 1, Viking 2. They were built up at Denver Colorado at that time ... there. Don Arabian got a call saying, “We’ve been trying to check out these Vikings in our thermal vacuum chambers, and we’re getting all kinds of noise on the ...

... the magnetosphere over the north polar cap. A Titan-Centaur proof-flight vehicle carrying a Viking spacecraft model and a SPHINX satellite failed to achieve orbit and was destroyed during launch ... third Mercury encounter in March 1975. Preparations for the two 1975 Viking missions to Mars continued with the qualification-testing of Viking science instruments, engineering subsystems, and entire orbiter and lander spacecraft ... it from 0.6 m to determine the effects of landing shocks on the integrated Viking equipment. A detailed spacecraft design for the 1977 Mariner mission to Jupiter and Saturn was ...

First test rocket in the IGY-U.S. satellite program, a one-stage NRL Viking launch vehicle Viking , attained an altitude of 126 miles and a speed of 4,000 mph. Viking launch vehicle Viking No. 13 carried a "minitrack" radio transmitter which was ejected at 50 miles and tracked.

... a practical economic basis for using solar power. ''(Transcript)'' The first two Lockheed S-3A Viking carrier-based jet aircraft were delivered to the Pacific fleet in San Diego. The $10 ... could be dropped to the sea within 10 sec to transmit underwater sounds to the Viking . The Viking , which could fly 800 km per hr and drop from a cruising altitude of ... of the Navy's antisubmarine defenses for 20 yrs. The Navy wanted delivery of 187 Viking s through 1975. ''(Holles, NYT, 21 Feb 74,13)'' Dr. James C. Fletcher , NASA Administrator ...

... .S.-U.S.S.R. Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in July and the two Viking spacecraft Viking missions to Mars scheduled for August. Although NASA's legal responsibilities for energy research and ... small increase for space science did not tell the whole story: If funds for the Viking spacecraft Viking program were subtracted, the budget for the rest of science had increased $170 million ...

... , Oct 75, 3) Preparations continued at Kennedy Space Center for the launch of two Viking spacecraft Viking spacecraft to Mars. Lander 1 was mated with its Orbiter on 8 March to test ... on 13 March, data were transmitted to Jet Propulsion Laboratory to provide training for the Viking spacecraft Viking flight-control team. (KSC Spaceport News, 6 March 75, 6; 20 March 75, 5 ...

Both Viking spacecraft Viking Landers were 1 wk behind schedule because of an electrical interface problem between two onboard ... and practical uses on earth of space technology. Included were full-scale models of the Viking spacecraft Viking spacecraft scheduled for launch to Mars later in the year, and of Martin Marietta ...

... , allowing even better research of the planet's Mars' composition," Dr. George Sands, associate Viking spacecraft Viking Project scientist at Langley Research Center , stated in an interview with the Newport News Times Herald. "The Viking spacecraft Viking missions scheduled for August launch ate just the prelude of things to come." Dr. Sands ...

... new confrontations between the superpowers. (UPI, P Inq, 10 Aug 75) Launch of the Viking spacecraft Viking -A spacecraft to Mars was postponed because of a faulty thrust-vector control valve found ... launch team decided to remove and replace the valve, rescheduling the launch for 14 Aug. ( Viking spacecraft Viking Status Bulletin No 10, 20 Aug 75; O'Toole, W. Post, 12 Aug 75 ...

... Union might attempt to land an automatic microbiological laboratory on Mars before the U.S. Viking spacecraft Viking spacecraft, whose twice-delayed launch is now scheduled for 20 Aug., could arrive, the ... trajectories, the Russians could reach Mars in May 1976, 2 mo before the scheduled Viking spacecraft Viking arrival. Between 1971 and 1973 the Soviets had made 4 attempts to land probes on ...

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