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USAF DISCOVERER XVI successfully launched with new payload, but failed to go into polar orbit. October 1960 October ...

... . XIV No.2''' Image:1975-07BR.jpg 100px - Company History issue - Winter/Spring 1977 '''Vol. XVI''' Image:1977-01BR.jpg 100px - American Progress Wears Wings - Air Cushion Army - Two Veterans Grow ...

... 70 payloads included 55 Cosmos satellites and 2 Inter-cosmos, 2 Meteor spacecraft Meteor , 1 Luna, 1 Zond, 5 Soyuz, and 2 Venus spacecraft, and 2 Molniya I comsats. Manned Soyuz ... on three successive days, rendezvoused in orbit and performed experiments including photography, communications, and welding. Luna XV , apparent unmanned challenger to NASA's Apollo 11 for first lunar landing and return ...

... 83 in 1971 to 74. The 89 payloads included 72 Cosmos satellites, 3 Intercosmos, 1 Luna, 3 Meteor, 2 Prognoz, 3 Molniya I, 3 Molniya 11, 1 Venus, and secondary payload ... lunar soil samples were exchanged for soil samples collected by U.S.S.R.’s Luna 20 . Apollo 16 materials were distributed to scientists in 15 foreign countries, and Apollo 17 ...

... and 74 in 1972. The 107 Soviet payloads included 85 Cosmos satellites, 2 Intercosmos 1 Luna, 2 Meteor, 1 Prognoz, 1 cooperative Soviet-French Oreol, 2 manned Soyuz , 1 Salyut, 4 Mars probes, and 4 Molniya I and 4 Molniya II comsats. The Luna 21 probe landed the Lunokhod 2 self-propelled vehicle on the moon for lunar studies ...

... , Post, 5/14/65)'' A lunar dust cloud produced by braking rockets of Soviet probe LUNA V as it attempted a soft landing on the moon May 12 was photographed by ... braking rockets aboard the spacecraft had been operative. Soviet announcement had given landing time for LUNA V as 10:10 p.m. Pictures of the dust cloud were published in Izvestia ...

... LUNA VII 3,313-lb, instrumented moon probe was successfully launched by U.S.S.R. ... the last stage of the multistage launching rocket was put into parking orbit and then LUNA VII was fired on a trajectory toward the moon. All onboard equipment was said to ...

... -315)'' Tass reported that Crimean Astrophysical Observatory of the Soviet Academy of Sciences had photographed LUNA VII moon probe with 2.6-meter telescope, largest in U.S.S.R. and ... made it easier to distinguish the object from weak stars, Photographs would help to determine LUNA VII orbit with greater precision. ''(Tass, 10/5/65)'' ComSatCorp invited 20 construction companies to ...

Soviet spacecraft LUNA VIII impacted on the moon. Indications were that it was destroyed instead of making a ... of the Jodrell Bank radiotelescope tracking station, said: "The recordings of the final stages of Luna 8 made at Jodrell Bank indicate that a minor fault probably developed approximately four minutes ...

... were conducting an advanced lunar exploration program and said that series of spacecraft from LUNA IX through Luna XIII would not be used again, Space Business Daily reported. Officials did not elaborate ...

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