Rocket payload preparation

Date

• ca. 1950-ca. 1969

Summary

• UW astronomer Robert C. Bless, on the right, oversees preparations for an Aerobee suborbital rocket instrument launched on mission 4.055, in September 1964, from NASA Wallops Flight Center. The purpose of the flight was to test prototypes of modules that were being designed for the Univ. of Wisconsin's Orbiting Astronomical Observatory project.--- Description provided by James Lattis, Director, UW Space Place; faculty associate, astronomy