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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION<br />

MANNEDSPACECRA<br />

Houston<br />

CENTE I, 'rex,- s<br />

483-5111 December 16, <strong>1970</strong><br />

MSC-70-131<br />

HOUSTON, TEY_S ...... <strong>NASA</strong> today rescheduled the launch of a balloon<br />

borne scientific instrument package for no earlier than January 15, 1971.<br />

Poor weather conditions both in the launch area (Holloman Air Force<br />

Base, New Mexico) and in %he proposed recovery area (eastern seaboard)<br />

forced cancellation of the scheduled launch late Tuesday night. Dr.<br />

Richard Kurz, manager of the Cosmic Ray Ionization Spectrograph Program<br />

CRISP_ said the new launch vrindow for the six-ton payload is now January<br />

15 through February 21_ 197_.<br />

The balloon borne payload_ designed to study the cosmic rays in<br />

the upper atmosphere_ is scheduled to rise to an altitudeof 108,000<br />

feet and drift east. The program is managed by the <strong>NASA</strong> Manned Spacecraft<br />

Center and is launched by the USAir Force Cambridge Research Laboratories.<br />

This is the seventh in the series of CRISP flights.<br />

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