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Acting in response to a request from BuAer, the Navy Bureau of Engineering endorsed support for the National Bureau of Standards for the development of radio meteorographs. Later renamed radiosondes, these instruments were sent aloft on free balloons to measure pressure, temperature, and humidity of the upper atmosphere, and transmitted these data to ground stations for use in weather forecasting ...

Robert T. Jones, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Langley aeronautical scientist, formulated sweptback-wing concept to overcome shockwave effects at critical Mach numbers, and verified it in wind-tunnel experiments in March 1945 prior to learning of parallel German work. It was subsequently checked by the wing-flow technique before the first National Advisory Committee for ...

ICBM Scientific Advisory Committee to the Air Force was transferred to the Office of the Secretary of Defense to assure common interchange of technical information on all missile programs.

''CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-058'' ''NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR JPSS-1 SPACECRAFT'' WASHINGTON -- NASA on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a sole source contract for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo. This is a fixed price contract of $248 million with a performance period through Feb. 1 ...

''RELEASE: 13-026 - MARTIAN CRATER ONCE MAY HAVE HELD GROUNDWATER-FED LAKE'' --PASADENA, Calif. -- A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet's early evolution. The new information comes from researchers analyzing spectrometer data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which looked ...

Hermann Koelle delivers talk to the GfW in Stuttgart titled "Dusenflugzeuge und Grossraketen"

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... V program from August 1963 to May 1968. Starting career in rocketry in Germany in 1930, he later received patents for liquid-fuel rocket engines and demonstrated operation of liquid-fuel ... 10 Jan 11 1969 11 Jan 12 1969 12 Jan 13 1969 13 Jan 14 1969 14 Jan 15 1969 15 Jan 16 1969 16 Jan 17 1969 17 Jan 18 1969 18 Jan 19 1969 19 Jan 20 1969 20 Jan 21 ...

... designed for ocean research, a two-masted ketch that logged half a million miles between 1930 and 1966. Enterprise Space Shuttle Enterprise , the first orbiter built, was named for a vessel ... 10 Jan 11 1979 11 Jan 12 1979 12 Jan 13 1979 13 Jan 14 1979 14 Jan 15 1979 15 Jan 16 1979 16 Jan 17 1979 17 Jan 18 1979 18 Jan 19 1979 19 Jan 20 1979 20 Jan 21 ...

... were required to be US. citizens no taller than six feet, born after Aug. 1, 1930; have a doctorate degree in the natural sciences, medicine, or engineering; and meet physical requirements ... 10 Jan 11 1967 11 Jan 12 1967 12 Jan 13 1967 13 Jan 14 1967 14 Jan 15 1967 15 Jan 16 1967 16 Jan 17 1967 17 Jan 18 1967 18 Jan 19 1967 19 Jan 20 1967 20 Jan 21 ...

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