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This allowed ARPA to concentrate its efforts on the Project Defender ( defense against ballistic missiles ), Project Vela ( nuclear test detection ), and Project AGILE ( counterinsurgency R & D ) Programs, and to begin work on computer processing, behavioral sciences, and materials sciences.
** An 80-kiloton nuclear device is detonated at Amchitka Island, Alaska as part of the Vela Uniform program, code-named Project Long Shot.
Vela Uniform was an element of Project Vela conducted jointly by the United States Department of Energy ( DOE ) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA ).
Vela Uniform was an element of Project Vela conducted jointly by the United States Department of Energy and the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
* Project Vela, a system developed by the United States to monitor compliance with the Partial Test Ban Treaty
Vela was the name of a group of satellites developed as the Vela Hotel element of Project Vela by the United States to monitor compliance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty by the Soviet Union, and other nuclear-capable states.
The Sand Springs Range was the site of Project Shoal, an underground nuclear test conducted as part of the Vela Uniform program.
Vela Uniform was an element of Project Vela conducted jointly by the United States Department of Energy and the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Project Vela was a project by the United States to develop and implement methods to monitor compliance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty.
Project Vela consisted of three elements: Vela Uniform to monitor seismic signals to detect underground nuclear testing, Vela Sierra to detect atmospheric nuclear testing and Vela Hotel to detect nuclear testing from space.
*" Diamond Dust ", the codename of a nuclear test conducted as part of Operation Mandrel and Project Vela Uniform

Project and 1963
* 1998 – Rozz Williams, American musician ( Christian Death, Shadow Project, and Premature Ejaculation ) ( b. 1963 )
The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.
A follow-on study called Project 57 was worked in 1963 and it was " in this study that the GPS concept was born.
* 1963Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board.
A number of the program's graduates took up posts in the Catholic University's economics department ; by 1963 12 of 13 faculty members were Chile Project graduates, " rapidly turning it into their own little Chicago School in the middle of Santiago ".
The first modified ( in fact simplified ) Hasselblad 500C cameras were used on the last two Project Mercury missions in 1962 and 1963.
Project Carryall, proposed in 1963 by the Atomic Energy Commission, the California Division of Highways ( now Caltrans ), and the Santa Fe Railway, would have used 22 nuclear explosions to excavate a massive roadcut through the Bristol Mountains in the Mojave Desert, to accommodate construction of Interstate 40 and a new rail line.
Between 1958 and 1963, when NASA started Project Mercury, LaRC served as the main office of the Space Task Group, with the office being transferred to the Manned Spacecraft Center ( now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center ) in Houston in 1962 – 63.
Project Emily: The Thor IRBM and the Royal Air Force 1959 – 1963.
Rozz Williams ( born Roger Alan Painter November 6, 1963 – April 1, 1998 ) was an American vocalist and musician of several varieties, most famous for fronting the band Christian Death, then later Shadow Project with musician Eva O, though his main project throughout his career was the industrial Premature Ejaculation.
Though nuclear weapons have never been detonated on the TTR, the 1963 test Project Rollercoaster involved the destruction of four weapons, which caused some plutonium to be dispersed into the soil north of Antelope Lake.
On July 1, 1963, Project MAC ( the Project on Mathematics and Computation, later backronymed to Multiple Access Computer, Machine Aided Cognitions, or Man and Computer ) was launched with a $ 2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ).
According to Fernando J. Corbato who worked on Project MAC in 1963 his team is the first to use the term daemon.
* A History of the Emery County Project website that contains a picture of Dominy and other dignitaries getting ready to set off a blast at the Joes Valley Dam groundbreaking ceremony in 1963
In September 1963, Frosch went to Washington, DC to work with the Advanced Research Projects Agency ( ARPA ) in the U. S. Department of Defense, serving as Director for Nuclear Test Detection ( Project VELA ), and then as deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, sharing responsibility for managing a $ 270 million per year program of research and development.
Originally authorized in 1963 as the New Hope Lake Project, the reservoir was renamed in 1974 in memory of B. Everett Jordan, former North Carolina Senator.
The first venture was Project Atlanta in 1963, which had ties to British political leaders, bankers, the music industry and to Gordon McLendon, who had helped Radio Nord broadcast from a ship off Sweden.
Three of SCLC's main organizers Director of Direct Action and Nonviolent Education James Bevel, Diane Nash, and James Orange had been working on Bevel's Alabama Voting Rights Project since late 1963, a project which King and the executive board of SCLC had not joined.
The Deep Submergence System Project was established in June 1965 in the aftermath of the loss of USS Thresher in 1963.
* Suburban Emergency Management Project ( SEMP ), ' Epic Vajont Dam Disaster, Italy, 1963: Manmade or Natural?
In 1963 Dr. Pantoja directed a project of the Puerto Rican Forum that resulted in the establishment of the Puerto Rican Community Development Project ( PRCDP ), funded by the federal War on Poverty.

Vela and 1963
TRW Systems Group designed and manufactured the Vela series of nuclear detection satellites which monitored the 1963 establishment of the nuclear Partial Test Ban Treaty.
The first Vela Hotel pair was launched on October 17, 1963, one week after the Partial Test Ban Treaty went into effect, and the last in 1965.
Vela Uniform incorporated seven underground nuclear tests in the continental United States and Alaska from October 1963 to July 1971.

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