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Star‐pointing space telescope

OCT 01, 1966

DOI: 10.1063/1.3047777

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Early in August the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Md. reported that on 15 July it had successfully operated a telescope with a star‐pointing device above the earth’s atmosphere. NASA claims that this is the first time such a feat has been accomplished.

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Volume 19, Number 10

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