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NASA established RANGER VI Review Board, composed of members from NASA Hq., Langley Research Center , and Goddard Space Flight ... Deputy Associate Administrator for Industry Affairs Earl D. Hilburn, to review program effect of RANGER VI failure. The Board would review results of failure analyses and corrective procedures being prepared by ... Board was to determine when Ranger VII would be launched. Until the mystery of RANGER VI's failure was solved, NASA was delaying launch of Ranger VII, which also would have ...

... particular the recommendations of NASA Board of Inquiry (Kelley Board) prior to RANGER VI and the Hilburn Board following RANGER VI . Hilburn report outlined: (1) design changes effected after analyses of RANGER VI flight Bata; (2) changes agreed to be desirable "if properly evaluated and qualifier"; and (3) ...

... ­serted four satellites into separate earth orbits. Satellites were one Lin­coln Experimental Satellite ''(Les VI)'', two Environmental Research Satellites ''(Ers XXI, also called OV V-4; and Ers XXVIII, also ... .9-min period, and 2.9° inclination. Second all solid-state UHF-band comsat, Les VI would transmit radio signals to test communications to aircraft, ships, and ground troops. First Lincoln ...

... -day Gemini V mission scheduled for August 17 or for October's two-day Gemini VI flight. Astronauts Frank Borman (Maj. USAF) and James A. Lovell (LCdr. USN), primary crew for ... V would not physically dock with Rep; the experiment would simply provide training for Gemini VI and other rendezvous missions and evaluate the rendezvous radar hardware to be used on the ... of the rim of the terrestrial globe and of the twilight aureole taken by VOSTOK VI revealed two turbid layers in the stratosphere, Prof. Georgiy Rozenberg was reported in National Zeitung ...

... ., USAF), and Thomas P. Stafford (Maj., USAF), congratulating them on successful completion of the Gemini VI and Gemini VII space missions and advising them that promotions for new astronauts would be ... program except actual docking of two spacecraft had been achieved with the flights of Gemini VI and VII, MSC Director Dr. Robert R. Gilruth said at an MSC news conference, Gemini ...

... .pdf Space News for this day. (2MB PDF) NASA successfully launched Environmental Survey Satellite ESSA VI (TOS-D) . sixth meteorological satellite in Environmental Survey Satellite ESSA 's Television Infrared Observation Satellite ... Satellite ESSA . An advanced version of the cartwheel configuration, 286-113 Environmental Survey Satellite ESSA VI carried two Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) camera systems modified with improved magnetic shielding to prevent ...

Interplanetary spacecraft PIONEER VI, launched by NASA Dec.. 16, 1965, reached perihelion-75.7 million mi. from sun-at ... were twisted about one another; and solar wind did not travel in straight lines. PIONEER VI had identified new ion (singly ionized helium) in solar wind, had found magnetic-field effects ... 16, 1966), but it could be extended if larger antennas were available to hear PIONEER VI as it moved progressively away and ahead of the earth on its smaller orbit around ...

... /3/69, F7)'' New York Times editorial commented on Apollo 11 lunar landing and Mariner VI Mars mission: "Future generations may well regard the last two weeks of July 1969 as ... resembling snow or ice. Pictures showed white grid pattern around Nix Olympica, identified by Mariner VI photos as 300-mi-wide crater. Absence in Mariner VII photos of bright streak on Tempe desert near Mars north pole that had been visible in Mariner VI photos suggested meteorological phenomenon similar to earth's seasonal changes. South polar cap, which was ...

... the spacecraft made its close-encounter flyby of the southern hemisphere and polar regions. Mariner VI used similar instruments to gather information on the equatorial regions of Mars on its July ... area, was strangely free of meteorite impact craters. Mariner VII (launched March 27) with Mariner VI (launched Feb. 24) had provided most detailed information to date on Mars, including 198 photos ...

... for Delta 2nd stage and to demonstrate feasibility of using stage as experimental platform. Oso VI was spin-stabilized, weighed 640 lbs, carried seven experiments, was designed with six-month lifetime ... lower than expected spacecraft operating temperature -were not expected to affect spacecraft operation adversely. Oso VI was seventh in series of eight Orbiting Solar Observatory OSO spacecraft designed to provide direct ...

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