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...Commuter Airlines into a bustling business that today has a monthly haul of 3,500 passengers from such places as Ames and Sheboygan, Wis., to Chicago. Midstate Air Commuter Service in three years has built a profitable business linking the isolated paper-industry towns of Wisconsin to Chicago. Pilgrim Airlines of New London, Conn., which currently shuttles to Kennedy International Airport 74 times a week, in four years has raised its monthly passenger load from 60 people...
...Pilgrim would be launched during a period of major sunspot activity, and Huguenin hopes to find new facts about the atmosphere of the sun and about sunspot emission...
...Space Systems Division of Avco Corporation in Lowell will construct the Pilgrim craft and might even design the launching craft, Huguenin said. This question will not be decided until the project gets final government approval expected early this summer...
...first phase of the Pilgrim Project is already under way, Huguenin pointed out. He has already given Avco a $149,000 contract for the construction of an instrumented spacecraft to test some of the Pilgrim equipment. NASA has approved this contract...
...hopes that this test vehicle, to be called Probe I, will be sent up near the end of this year. It will not orbit the earth, and its flight will last for only 30 minutes, he said. The test vehicle will include one of the two antennas planned for Pilgrim and two of the three spectrometers. Probe I will be launched from a NASA base in Virginia...