Aerospace & Aviation

Conventional pyrometer, in which Kerr cell replaces mechanical shutter and polarizers are added to filters, yields rapid shutter response.

A tool consisting of a positioning pin which is engaged in the screw and depressed until the tool body contacts the locking cup permits quick and neat crimping.

Address current error detector generates a signal whenever any error producing conditions arise in magnetic core arrays. Can be used with test equipment and memory storage units.

To prevent the laboratory technicians mouth from contacting harmful liquids, a device with a hermetically sealed elastic bellows is attached to a standard pipette.

An essentially frictionless four-point support system which utilizes bearings and pistons allows for determination of vibration frequencies of large structures. Retardation of vertical or horizontal motion is due to the viscous damping by the hydrostatic pressure of the oil or by adjustment of the gas volume in the accumulator.

Photoelectric semiconductor switch with a buried emitter region avoids high-leakage currents across the emitter. it exhibits high emitter to collector transport efficiency beta at low signal levels.

Refractory-metal heater base wound with a thin refractory metal wire increases the longevity of oxide-coated cathodes. The wire-wound unit is impregnated with the required thickness of metal oxide. This cathode is useful in magnetohydrodynamic systems and in electron tubes.

System of short length U-tube manometers with a proportionally divided reference pressure measures high fluid pressures.

Ellipsoidal cavity device measures radiant heat energy over wide incident angles in corrosive atmospheres. The instrument consists of a cavity in copper heat sink sealed with sapphire window to protect thermocouple.

Inexpensive transistorized circuit provides reliable analog indications of heart rate in response to preamplified electrocardiograph signal applied to its input.

Shock absorber with an output shaft, hollow gear, and a pair of springs forming a resilient driving connection between shaft and gear, operates when abnormally high torques are applied. This simple durable frictional device is valuable in rotating mechanisms subject to sudden overloads.

Thermocompression bonding of a gold wire to a gallium-arsenide wafer produces a quality surface barrier diode with fast recovery times. The properties of this combination may be useful in semiconductor devices.

This report, in two parts, presents a program development plan for attempting a first manned lunar landing in 1967. The two parts consist of a Summary Report and a Detailed Report representing the coordinated output of the ad hoc task group assigned to the study. The study was started in response to the request for such a study by the Associate Administrator in his memorandum of May 2, 1961 establishing the Ad Hoc Task Group. The purpose of the study was to take a first cut at the tasks associated with the design, development and construction of the equipment and facilities as well as the development of the crews, and to show the time phasing of these tasks. Included are the space science, life science and advanced technology tasks whose data and results are needed for designing and developing the systems required in carrying out the mission.