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...intensely observed eclipse in history. Besides the numerous telescopes, cameras and other elaborate gear located in Oaxaca, other equipment is being set up at observatories all along the Eastern Seaboard. By the fortunes of celestial mechanics, the eclipse's path will cross Wallop's Island, Va., where NASA scientists will send up 33 probing rockets as the shadow approaches. In addition, several research planes will seek an above-the-weather look at the eclipse; a U.S. Air Force KC-135 will even race the moon's shadow in order to get a few precious extra moments...
Just seconds before totality, an international group of scientists including Reeves and William H. Parkinson, lecturer in Astronomy, launched a 25-foot Aerobee rocket from NASA's Wallops Island in Virginia...
international team including ?? M. Reeves and William H. ?? ?son, lecturers in Astronomy, ?? have two ultra-violet light de? ?? ?s aboard one of the 33 rockets ?? ?NASA inteds to fire from Wal? ?? Island. Virginia, tomorrow. The ?? ?ll be used to photograph the ?? or chromosphere as ?? ?ls into the eclipse ?? ?? of light ?? rocket's cameras ?? ?he chemical finger? ?? identify the reactions ?? that region of the sun. ?? ?mosphere is only visible for a few seconds during a total eclipse before the moon covers up the thin layer...
PASACHOFF had also proposed that NASA and Air Force use the SR-71, a high-flying reconnaissance plane, during the eclipse. Since the SR-71 can attain speeds of at least 2000 miles per hour-several hundred miles faster than the eclipse shadow at some points-it could prolong eclipse observation-time by an hour or more. The jet could also position itself anywhere within the moon's shadow...
...Department of the Interior and NASA started the Tektite project last summer both to study local marine life and to determine the psychological effects of working in cramped quarters and in an ??alien environment for extended periods...