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... Despite the modest cost of rockets relative to artificial satellites and space probes, these research opportunities have generally not been exploited as vigorously as those involving use of the latter techniques. In a period of sharply reduced budgets such as now exists, the relatively low cost of rockets and hence of the scientific results they obtain causes rockets to be a particularly attractive method of conducting space research.
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... National Science Foundation support has been reduced markedly and programs previously funded by NSF are being assisted with NASA funds, to the deprivation of other on-going NASA programs. The level of effort of other agencies, including the Naval Research Laboratory and the U
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... We commend NASA for the progress made in developing the new Aerobee l70 for the 250 lb/l50 mile class payload and urge that these systems be made available to the rocket research community as soon as possible. If support for rocket research is substantially increased, we recommend further development of rockets, with optional stability and pointing control systems, to meet the needs for the still heavier classes of experiments at reasonable cost.
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... APPENDIX Rocket Results l965-l968
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