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... earth from nearly 18 million mi. in space. Previous transmission record was set by PIONEER V space probe at distance of 17.7 million mi. June 14, 1960. ( PIONEER ... be placed on the moon in late 1964. Dr. Leo Stoolman, Surveyor project chief for Hughes, said reasons for redesigning Surveyor instrument package were difficulty in Centaur launch vehicle program and decision ...

... through earth's atmosphere at lunar-return velocity. Unmanned Surveyor VII , NASA's first launch in 1968 and last spacecraft in Surveyor series, softlanded on moon, conducted on-site ... Cutbacks included "sharply limited and deferred" Apollo Applications program, end to Saturn IB and V booster production, 50% cut in advanced mission studies, reduced lunar and planetary exploration program ...

... convert to private corporation. ''(W Post, 5/21/70)'' Univ. of Chicago scientist Dr. Albert V. Crewe announced his team of scientists had obtained images of individual atoms within organic compounds ... low in area of Ocean of Storms where Apollo 12 and Surveyor III had landed. Camera and several portions of Surveyor spacecraft had coating of fine dust stirred from lunar surface as ...

... descent through dense clouds to night side of Venusian surface. Launched Jan. 5, Venus V had traveled 217-million-mi trajectory. Tass said: "The instrument capsule was automatically ... 69-47)'' In Science, Leonard D. Jaffe, Surveyor data analysis manager at Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL , cited important findings of five Surveyor spacecraft which softlanded on lunar surface: surface of ...

... operated as planned; Centaur ignited, burning for 7 min. 12 sec, and injected the dummy Surveyor spacecraft into a highly elliptical simulated lunar transfer orbit with apogee, 509,829 mi. (820 ... /Col. USAF) during the June 3 GEMINI IV flight had been eliminated from the GEMINI V spacecraft, MSC spokesmen said. ''(Houston Chron., 8/11/65)'' Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC announced ...

... it from air, be it from the spacecraft. I think they refer to it as V over H, which is velocity over altitude. So essentially by having the film move at ... simpler, and you get better quality that way.” The mission that followed Lunar Orbiter was Surveyor. Surveyor was designed to be a soft landing. It got to the Moon. It had a ... also interesting that Apollo 12 landed within five or six hundred feet of where the Surveyor was, and pictures that were taken by, I think it was by Alan Bean, you ...

... rocket technology itself (including guidance and stabilizations systems) was then still basically limited to the V-2 of World War II. Although now taken for granted, rocket “launch sites” by that ... Range Planning. As such, he played roles in the planning towards Projects Mercury, the unmanned Surveyor and Ranger, and afterward, Project Apollo and NASA’s Marine Applications Systems. In 1963, he ...

... demonstrated during one week-second week of Novem­ber 1967-in launching Ats III, Surveyor VI, Saturn V, and Essa IV represented "better than 90% of everything we would need to carry ... capability of Ranger and Surveyor opened way "for lunar and planetary investigations of a type and scope undreamed of before we learned to use the rocket technology." Saturn V launch "demonstrated that ...

... its Centaur second stage into orbit around the earth with a mass model of the Surveyor lunar spacecraft in its nose. The first-burn performance of the Centaur rocket sent the ... to tumble and roll. After about 15 hr. in orbit, the Centaur stage and its Surveyor dummy payload re-entered the atmosphere over the South Pacific east of Australia and disintegrated ... firing of the "battleship" stage of the Saturn S-II , second stage of the Saturn V moon rocket, was conducted by North American Aviation , Inc." at their Santa Susana Field Laboratory ...

... problems encountered by Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad , Jr., on their eight-day GEMINI V flight August 19. ''(Transcript; Hines, Wash, Eve, Star, 11/2/65, A3)'' FAA became the ... country and throughout the world." ''(Pres. Doc, 11/8/65, 448)'' Commenting on the Project Surveyor report of Rep. Joseph E. Karth's Subcommittee on NASA Oversight see Oct. 8 , William ... go ahead with the project, and the award of a contract for development of the Surveyor spacecraft.' " ''(Coughlin, M&R, 11/1/65, 46)'' Reaction to the cancellation of the NASA ...

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