Appendix L Scientific and Technical Contributions Recognized by the Agency's Inventions and Contributions Board (July 1-December 31,1968) Awards Granted Under Provisions of Section 306 of the Space Act of 1958 Collapsible Nozzle Extension for Warren E. Darrow Jr., Billy C. Locking Mechanism.. Ursery. Edward Prono, Wesley R. Kirk.. Doped Silicon Carbide Diode for Leonard B. Giffiths, Abraham I. Hayes International Corp. Westinghouse Electric Corp. Brown Engineering. North American Rockwell Corp. General Telephone and Elec tronics Laboratories. Scientific Atlanta Inc. Grumman Aircraft Engineering William A. Wall, Jr., Douglas L. NASA/George C. Marshall Stephens. Daniel W. Gates, Gene A. Zerlaut, Frederick O. Rogers. Clayton Loyd, John R. Rasquin, Helmut C. L. Krause.. Polymide Bonded Solid Lubricants. Keith E. Demorest, Mahlon E. Campbell, Vernice Hopkins. Space Flight Center and Do. NASA/George C. Marshall Appendix M Awards Granted NASA Employees Under Provisions of the Incentive Awards Act of 1954 Input Impedance and Low Output Impedance. CIRO A. CANCRO and PAUL J. JANNICHE Jr. Method and Apparatus for Battery Charge THOMAS J. HENNIGAN, KENNETH Control Resettable Monostable Pulse Generator_ John F. Kennedy Space Center: Digital Notch Filter.. O. SIZEMORE, and NELSON H. NORMAN M. GARRAHAN BENJAMIN Z. MEERS Jr. Langley Research Center: Spectrograph Alignment System... Vibrating Structure Displacement Measuring Instrument Logic and Gate for Fluid Circuits... Imidazopyrrolone/Imide Copolymers.. REGINALD J. EXTON BRUCE FLAGGE RICHARD F. HELLBAUM VERNON L. BELL Jr. and GEORGE F. PEZDIRTZ Omnidirectional Multiple Impact Landing JOHN R. MCGEHEE System Cryogenic Liquid Level Sensor Space Suit Pressure Stabilizer. JOSEPH D. PERDUE DONALD E. BARTHLOME Payload/Burned-Out Motor Case Separation NATHAN D. WATSON System Fringe Counter for Interferometers... Tube Fabricating Process.. Steering System.... WILLIAM E. HOWELL and KAZMERE C. ROMANCZYK JOHN G. DAVIS Jr. UPSHUR T. JOYNER DAVISON Gaseous Control System for Nuclear Reactors. EDWARD LANTZ and HARRY W. High Strength Tungsten Alloys.... Ion Thrustor Accelerator System Single Grid Accelerator System____ WILLIAM D. KLOPP, PETER L. PAUL M. MARGOSIAN and Process for Glass Coating an Ion Accelerator BRUCE A. BANKS Refractory Metal Fiber Nickel Alloy Com- DONALD W. PETRASEK, ROBERT posites. George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Harness Assembly... Swivel Support for Gas Bearing. A. SIGNORELLI, JOHN W. DAN H. DANE HELMUTH PHAFF Air Cushion Lift Pad....... DAN H. DANE and HERMAN T. Printed Circuit Assembly and Method of WILLIAM A. BOSHERS Fabrication DAN H. DANE System for Maintaining a Motor at a Prede- CLAYTON LOYD Ratchet Mechanism.. A Appendix N EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS and MOTION PICTURES (July 1-December 31, 1968) NASA released the following new educational publications during the last six months of this year. They are available to the public, without charge, from the Special Events Division, FGC-1, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C. 20546, or may be purchased in quantity from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Other publications are listed in a folder supplied from the same address at NASA. Booklets Address by Dr. Homer E. Newell, Associate Administrator, NASA, on "Some Thoughts on the Space Program and Education” delivered before the National Association of Secondary School Priciplas, Atlantic City, N.J., February 13, 1968. (Speaking of Space and Aeronautics, vol. iv, no. 5, 15 pp.) Address by Dr. Newell on "Current Program and Considerations of the Future for Earth Resources Survey" delivered at the Fifth Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment at the Institute of Science and Technology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 16, 1968. (Speaking of Space and Aeronautics, vol. iv, no. 7, 16 pp.) Address by Dr. Arnold K. King, Vice President for Institutional Studies, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill on "Space Exploration and Its Effects on Education" delivered at the National Association of Secondary School Principals annual convention, Atlantic City, N.J., February 12, 1968. (Speaking of Space and Aeronautics, vol. iv, no. 6, 8 pp.) International Cooperation In Space.-An eight-page description of developments (since 1962) in the many-sided program for international cooperation in space exploration established by NASA. Prepared for the Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Vienna, Austria, August 1968. |