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New Air Academy Lab

SEP 01, 1962
Physics Today

A basic‐research laboratory is to be established at the Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs in early autumn. The facility will be known as the Colorado Astronautical Research Laboratory (CARL), and will be operated under the supervision of the Office of Aerospace Research with an initial staff of 37 and an annual budget of $850 000. Current plans call for a research program concentrating on the fields of chemistry and aerospace mechanics and including the areas of radiation chemistry, chemical physics, the physics of high polymers, numerical analysis, and solid mechanics.

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