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Echo: skin stress test
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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.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineEcho: skin stress test. NASA/LARC, 1960-05-14. Public domain. ID: LRC-1960-B701_P-06085.
