Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1977: A Chronology

A-2 Description administrator Aeronautics agency aircraft altitude apogee Apollo astronaut astronomy atmosphere awarded Baykonur Boeing boosters Calif comsat contract Corp Cosmos crew DFRC director earth energy engineers ERDA experiments Flight Center GSFC high-energy astronomy INTELSAT Intl Investigation of upper July June Jupiter laboratory LaRC Release launch manager military photo-reconnaissance satellite million mission mosphere and outer MSFC announced MSFC Release MSFC reported NASA announced NASA Release NASA reported NASA's Natl Objective Office operations outer space payload perigee pilot plane Plesetsk Post Probable military photo-reconnaissance Research Center rocket Rockwell Salyut Saturn scheduled scientists Sept Skylab solar solid-fuel rocket boosters Soviet Soyuz Soyuz 26 Space Center Space Flight Space Shuttle spacecraft Spacelab sphere and outer station Tass telescope tion Total weight Tyuratam Unavailable Univ upper atmo USAF USSR vehicle Voyager x-ray