Douglas lands 1.5 million NASA QUESTOL jet contract
Douglas Aircraft Co. and its Long Beach division win a 1.4 million design contract to create the quiet, short takeoff and landing QUESTOL jetliner for NASA. Grumman Aerospace and Lockheed-Georgia also win six month design studies.
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Lockheed-Georgia Co
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Robert E. Hage
Apollo 16 crew touts lunar highlands as best moon ships
Apollo 16 astronauts Duke Young and Mattingly defend the mission amid budget cuts and delays. They praise the command module and lunar module as the smoothest tested, with Duke joking about financing the gas bill. The crew remains set for a March launch to reach the Descartes region, with Young and Duke piloting the lunar surface and Mattingly orbiting.
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Crater
Descartes
Air Force
Mattingly
Apollo 15 crew Ryan to get aviation prize
The ninth Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet in Beverly Hills honors Apollo 16 astronauts David J. Scott James B. Irwin and Alfred M Worden plus aviation pioneer T Claude Ryan founder of Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical as Kitty Hawk memorial awards. Scott and Irwin spent seven hours on the moon while Worden orbited 36 times. Ryan founded Ryan Flying Co in 1922 and helped Lindbergh fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927. Harle E Patty chairs the banquet at the Beverly Hilton.
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David J. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
T. Claude Ryan
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
Ryan
Army Air Corps
Ryan Flying Co
San Diego
Los Angeles
Lindbergh
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