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19th Semiannual Report activities Administrator Aeronautics aerospace agencies aircraft altitude antenna Apollo 9 Apollo Applications Apollo Applications Program Apollo Program astronauts checkout communications completed conducted configuration continued contract contractors cooperative Corp cost crew cumulative awards December 31 earth resources electrical electron engine equipment ESRO evaluated experiments facilities Figure flown ground test hardware Headquarters improve INTELSAT investigation Kennedy Space Center Langley Research Center launch vehicle lunar landing lunar module lunar orbit lunar surface maneuver ment million MSFC NASA NASA Centers NASA's NERVA nozzle Observatory operational payload percent performance period planetary planned propellant propulsion systems radiation radio reactor requirements S-IVB satellite Saturn IB sensor simulated solar sounding rocket Space Flight Center Space Flight Network space vehicle Spacecraft Center stage stations structural studies Tech techniques telescopes television temperature tion University V/STOL VTOL Workshop
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Page 4 - I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
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Page 188 - In addition to the direct contract awards made by NASA procurement offices, approximately 90 percent of the dollar value of procurement requests placed by NASA with other Government agencies, chiefly the Department of Defense, resulted in contracts awarded to business firms in behalf of NASA. Also, about...
Page 189 - An additional 11 percent represented actions on followon contracts placed with companies that had previously been selected on a competitive basis to perform the research and development on the applicable project. In these instances, selection of another source would have resulted in additional cost to the Government by reason of duplicate preparation and investment. The remaining 21 percent included contracts for facilities required at contractors...
Page 33 - EVA experience showed that a methodical increase in task complexity was necessary in order to understand and operate in the zero g space environment. The 1/6 g lunar surface environment will be a new experience, one that cannot be completely simulated on earth. For example, sufficient metabolic data is simply not available to predict, with high confidence, rates in a 1/6 g environment. Only educated assessments can be made of the difficulties the astronaut will have in maneuvering on the surface...
Page 190 - Sl stage. Provide product improvement program and spare parts support. Modify areas of Michoud Plant assigned to contractor. Awarded $83 million; cumulative awards $237 million.
Page 158 - The countries represented are Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Among the approved experiments are investigations in minerology and petrology, chemical and isotope analyses, physical properties, and biochemical and organic analyses.
Page 233 - Marquette University Maryland. University of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts. University of Miami, University of Michigan State University Michigan Technological University Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Mississippi State University Mississippi, University of Missouri. University of Missouri, University of...
Page 159 - The United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, held in...