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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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483-5111 MSC 70-126
December 8, 1970
HOUSTON_ TE}_AS--A 34-_illion-cubic-foot volume balloon will be launched
by the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories in support of NASA's CRISP
(Cosmic Ray Ionization Spectrograph Program) from Holloman AFB, New Mexico,
on or about December 8, 1970.
It is the largest balloon ever built--442 feet taller than the
Washington Monument--and will carry a two-ton payload to an altitude of
about 108_000 feet. The CRISP balloon will provide a stable high altitude
platform that will enable scientists of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center,
Houston, Texas, to measure the intensity of cosmic radiation in the upper
atmosphere. This is the seventh experiment in a series designed to provide
significant new scientific information about the high energy cosmic radiation
and to develop future scientific experiments to be conducted in later space
station
missions.
CRISP 7 is a project of the Science &nd Applications Directorate of
the NASA Manned Spacecra_; Center_ Houston, Texas. Air Force Cambridge
Research Laborator_es_ he_dquartered at L. G. Hanscom Field_ Bedford_ Mass._
is providing the balloon system and is responsible for the launching_
operational control_ and :ecovery of the balloon system and its scientific
payload. AFCRL is an elez_ent of the Office of Aerospace Research, U. S.
Air
Force.
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