Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Even during an eclipse, the chromosphere's strong ultra-violet light emissions are blocked out by the earth's atmosphere. Thus a rocket or satellite is needed for studying this region...
...previous attempt to do this-a French rocket launched from Brazil-was only a partial success...
...This is the first time a natural eclipse has passed over an established rocket range with all the established support facilities-the radar, weather prediction, telemetry, and ground crews-which you don't get when you do the job quick and dirty," Reeves said...
...Harvard College Observatory's Orbiting Solar Observatory VI (OSO-VI) will take simultaneous ultra-violet observations of the sun's visible disc and corona during the rocket launch...