Sounding Rockets Bourdeau is listed as the experimenter on a total of 27 sounding rockets between March 16 , 1960 and August 24 , 1965 . Of these , four are listed as rocket failures and one as partially successful . The remaining 22 carried successful experiments in the ionosphere and plasma physics . Six were launched during the total solar eclipse on July 20 , 1963 . The sounding rockets were launched either from the Churchill Rocket Research Range in Fort Churchill , Canada or NASA 's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island , Virginia . Results from these experiments continued his record of publications in scientific journals and appearances in symposia
total solar eclipse on July 20 , 1963
Solar eclipse of July 20, 1963
Robert E. Bourdeau