Echo: skin stress test
Photographed in 1960. -- Skin Stress Test of the 12-foot satellite built as a prototype of the full-scale Echo satellite. The 12-foot diameter of the sphere was chosen because that was the ceiling height in the Langley model shop. The proposal to build the 12-foot satellite was made in November 1957. -- Published in James R. Hansen, Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center From Sputnik to Apollo, NASA SP-4308, pp. 170-171.
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NASA ID
LRC-1960-B701_P-06085
Date Created
May 14, 1960
Center
LARC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA
Location
NASA Langley Research Center
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