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... , and it was raining. I started out, and was probably about thirty miles west of Fort Stockton, I was following another car and the rain was really coming down, and all ... 'd gotten out. The water had already started coming down. So I went on into Fort Stockton and went into a gas station, just opened the doors of my car and ...

... following summer, summer of 19 '42, I got a job helping build an Army camp, Fort Campbell Kentucky it's called today, and I was working for the contracting engineer, figuring ... industry for a while. So he went with Chance Vought, which was up in the Fort Worth Texas area. He was a designer. The Flying Pancake, it was XF5U-1 , didn ...

... K.U., I went to work for Convair, which is General Dynamics Corporation now at Fort Worth. Well, it’s not even General Dynamics; it’s Lockheed Martin Corporation now. I ... ’m certainly not as sharp as Buzz in that area. Orbital mechanics was not my forte to start with. But between the both of us, I came up with a set ...

... E-MIST system is planned to launch from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico on September 26. During this mission, similar to the 2014 test flight ... the public can watch the progress of the flight unfold by following the links to Fort Sumner Operations from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility website at: http://towerfts.csbf.nasa ...

... eclipse, with emphasis on ionosphere and on sun's corona. At Churchill Research Range , USAF OAR facility located at Ft. Churchill, Can., six Nike-Apache sounding rockets equipped with instruments to measure ...

... )'' Nike-Cajun sounding rockets with grenade experiments were launched at Wallops Island, Va ., and Ft. Churchill, Canada , in current NASA series of comparative upper atmosphere studies. The experiments were designed to ... 73.8-mi. altitude, with all 12 of its grenades exploding; Nike-Cajun from Ft. Churchill reached 78-mi. altitude, with 11 grenades functioning normally and the twelfth ejecting but not ...

NASA launched three Nike-Cajun sounding rockets from Ft. Churchill , Canada, and Wallops Island, Va ., two with grenade payloads to investigate winds, temperature, density, and ... provided data for calculating densities at various altitudes. Less than two hours later the Ft. Churchill rocket was launched, sending 82-lb. payload which ejected grenades detonating at intervals in region ...

... instruments operated to impact. ''(NASA Rpt Km)'' Nike-Tomahawk sounding rocket launched by NASA from Churchill Re­search Range carried Univ. of New Hampshire-Univ. of California at San Diego payload ... analyzers and channel multipliers. Launch was first in series of five to be launched from Churchill. Exact performance was not calculated because of early radar loss; time corre­lated performance indicated ...

... , and 83.2° inclination. ''(Pres Rpt 68)'' Nike-Cajun sounding rocket launched by NASA from Churchill Research Range carried GSFC payload to 12-mi ''(19-km)'' altitude to obtain varia­tions ... profile and atmosphere structure. Launch was one of series scheduled for winter 1968-69 at Churchill, Point Barrow, Alaska, and NASA Wallops Station. Nineteen grenades deployed and ex­ploded as planned ...

... coordinated studies of the atmosphere from Wallops Island, Va .: Ft. Churchill , Canada; and Kronogard , Sweden. Nike-Cajun launched from Ft. Churchill reached 77.5-mi. altitude with 12 grenades ejecting and detonating ...

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