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What did NASA Vehicle Assembly Building's "weather" look like? Did it really have clouds? Did it rain?
Comments below this answer to Would there be snow, rain, fog or clouds in a deep, sealed, subsurface cavern on the Moon if water were present? point out that the NASA Vehicle Assembly Building ...
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What routinely happened in the TIROS control center? Was anything controlled there?
Question: What actually happened in the TIROS control center at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland? Did they receive and print out satellite images in this room? If so, how? Did they ...
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How were video tape recorders adapted to work in orbit in 1962?
Livescience's Satellite spies gigantic 'fuzzball' clouds spreading near Australia coast says:
Actinoform clouds were first captured by NASA’s Television Infrared Observation Satellite V in 1962, but ...
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How did "the kid" (John Meisenheimer) calculate that there was a wave in the jet stream and Explorer 1 would be okay to launch?
The tough but timely question NASA at sIxty years, will there be a new moonshot mandate? links to the NASA YouTube video NASA 60th: How It All Began which shows a lot of really nice, historical file ...
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