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October -December, 1962:
This report briefly describes the Dominic extension tests and Sandia's participation and goes into a little more detail on Sandia's plans for improving the air

drop capability (including diagnostic aircraft) for the future as well as improvements in the area of high altitude tests, entailing improvements of the
“Strypi and other rocket systems and various instrumentation packages and
components.

One of the appendices of this book is entitled "Project Buckboard,"

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with a brief

overview of the results and evaluations of this Sandia contribution to the

Plowshare program.

January - March, 1963:
This report briefly sums up the next projects to be undertaken in the erea of
testing which include:

Ferris Wheel, Roller Coaster, Shoal, Marshmallow, Project

437, and others with more or less relevance to nuclear testing and some already well

underway or almost complete.

Several of the technical measurement programs that

Sandia had on Dominic are reported on at some length.

In the appendix section,

one of the reports is on the “Aero Dynamic Balloon System" which has been designed by Sandia to support the test devices up to 5,000 feet and in winds up
to 30 knots and it is proposed foruse in areas such as Christmas Island.

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