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Aaron, David 1998-06-26 Aaron’s role as Deputy Director of the National
Security Council (NSC)
during the Carter Administration, Space
Shuttle and national security,
Space Shuttle design
18921 Transcript 22 pgs
Aaron, John Bingham,
Jeffrey
1999-05-13 Space station history: 1984-
1993, Space Station Freedom (SSF) program management,
relationships between NASA
centers
18922 Transcript 26 pgs
Abbey, George W.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-08-18 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Phillips Report, persons
involved in General Samuel
Phillips' investigation of North American Aviation
NASA contracts performance
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Abbey,
George W.
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-07-26 Abbey's military career,
Apollo program management at North American Aviation,
Apollo spacecraft design
specifications and changes before Apollo 1 (AS-204)
fire
13125
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Transcript 13 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Abbey, George W.
Sherrod, Robert
1974-06-29 Phillips report, Abbey’s astronaut application,
astronauts’ military backgrounds, Apollo 13
flight, Apollo missions,
Apollo Soyuz Test Project
(ASTP)
13285 &
19517
Transcript 22 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Also used for …Before This
Decade is Out
NASA Headquarters History Office - Oral History Collection(Sorted by Interviewee)
Revised 11/07/2018
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Abbey, George W.
McCurdy, Howard
1987-11-10 Abbey being detailed to NASA from the US Air
Force (USAF), difference of
in house engineering skill between NASA and USAF,
change within NASA
towards more contracting out of engineering at operational
centers, success of Apollo
program being attention to
detail, changes in NASA
testing philosophy, increasing
complexity and bureaucracy of management at NASA
since Apollo era, Shuttle
design changes as a result of NASA budget cuts, failure to
include operational costs in
Shuttle program estimates, differences in capabilities and
level of complexity between
Skylab and Space Station Freedom (SSF), advantage to
NASA having operational
and design engineers located and working together, Shuttle
still an experimental vehicle
subject to modification, NASA focus shift from using
proven technology to
advancing technology without a practical use in
mind, Abbey decision to go
to Naval Academy and join USAF as pilot afterward
18720 Transcript 41 pgs Inside NASA
Abbitt, Charles W.
Merrifield, Robert
1968-08-06 Development of Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC)
Mission Control Center
(MCC) during Gemini and Apollo programs, Philco as
MCC contractor
18993 Transcript 14 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
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Abbott, Ira H. Levine, Arthur
1960-08-00 Success of research at the NACA, position as director
of Office of Research
Aerodynamics at Langley Memorial Aeronautical
Laboratory (LMAL), and
director of the Office of Advanced Research
Programs (OARP) at NASA
5 Transcript 8 pgs
Abbott, Ira H. Bonney,
Walter
1971-10-28 Organization of NACA, wind
tunnels, airfoils, missiles, and
supersonic and swept wing aircraft
4 &
19511
Transcript 31 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
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Abrahamson,
Lt. Gen. James
1984-02-06 Goals for the Space Shuttle
program and future of Space Station Freedom (SSF)
990 Transcript 4 pgs Copyrighted
by USA Today
Abrahamson, Lt. Gen.
James
McConnell, Malcolm
1984-02-08 Goals for the Space Shuttle program and future of Space
Station Freedom (SSF)
990 Transcript 5 pgs
Acheson,
David
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-11-01 Webb's tenure as
Undersecretary of State
during Truman
administration, Dean
Acheson, Paul Nitze, Robert
McNamara, Webb and Comsat, Webb on
Smithsonian Board of
Regents
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz"
Furlong, William
1966-00-00 Aldrin's involvement in athletics, building model
airplanes as a child, scuba diving, taking a doctorate at
MIT instead of test pilot
school, flight training and experience, astronaut
selection
13282 Transcript 33 pgs Copyrighted by World
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Aldrin, Edwin
"Buzz"
Cromie,
William
1969-02-00 Apollo 11 lunar
extravehicular activity (EVA) training, Apollo 11 flight
training, possibility of being
first people to land on the moon
13129
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Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz"
Merrifield, Robert
1970-07-07 Gemini and Apollo astronaut training, Gemini 12 flight,
Apollo 11 flight, post-flight
tours, astronauts' public affairs work
18993 Transcript 15 pgs Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC) History
(unpublished)
Aldrin, Edwin
"Buzz"
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-11-13 Aldrin originally intended as
first man on the moon,
computer alarms during Apollo 11 lunar landing
13129 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz"
Sherrod, Robert
1970-12-04 Apollo 11 flight, origins of name Tranquility Base,
Aldrin as second man on the
moon, why no illness for Apollo 11 crew,
extravehicular activity (EVA)
during Gemini
13129 Notes 5 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Alibrando,
Alfred
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-02-25 George Mueller, Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire
13285 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Alibrando, Alfred
Sherrod, Robert
1970-07-10 Influence of Congressional staffers
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Alibrando,
Alfred
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-09-24 Joe Shea 13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Alibrando, Alfred
Sherrod, Robert
1971-04-06 Joe Shea, George Mueller, Webb and Marshall Space
Flight Center (MSFC)
controversy over Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO)
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Alibrando,
Alfred
Sherrod,
Robert
1974-04-04 Senator Robert Kerr 13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Alibrando, Alfred
Sherrod, Robert
1974-04-08 Congressman Olin "Tiger" Teague, NASA
Administrator James Fletcher
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Allen, Lew Gruen, Adam 1989-03-03 Involvement of Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
with the Space Station program and program
management, establishment
of space station offices in Reston, Virginia; and support
57 Transcript 28 pgs Space Station
Freedom History
(unpublished)
to space station from JPL
orbiting platforms
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Allnutt,
Robert F.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-05-09 Webb's preparation for
Congressional hearings,
Webb's role in formulating NASA patent policy, dispute
between NASA and Hughes
Aircraft over Syncom patents, Apollo 1 (AS-204)
fire and investigation, Webb's
handling of Apollo 1 fire and aftermath, Webb's
relationship to Congress,
Phillips Report, President Lyndon Johnson and Webb's
resignation
7106 Notes 14 pgs Powering Apollo
Allnutt,
Robert F.
Dick, Steven
J.
2005-11-07 Evolution of NASA patent
policy, Congressional relations, Office of General
Counsel, James Webb,
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire investigation and Review
Board, Allnutt's role as head
of Office of Legislative Affairs, Apollo 8 flight,
transition from Webb to
Thomas O. Paine, Apollo 11 flight, Apollo 13 flight,
Robert Frosch, NASA’s first Headquarters, the Dolly Madison House; Willis
Shapley, Max Faget, risk of
Apollo flights, and Wernher von Braun
19826 Transcript 47 pgs NASA Culture
Study (unpublished)
Altneu, Irwin Swenson,
Lloyd S.
Ray, Thomas 1970-07-20 Apollo Program Evaluation
and Review Technique (PERT), and performance
scheduling
66 Transcript 27 pgs Apollo Oral
History Interviews
Ames, Milton Hallion, 1971-07-26 Early supersonic flight, X-1 76 Transcript 15 pgs
Jr. Richard aircraft, X-2 aircraft, Douglas D-558 aircraft, XP-92 aircraft
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Anders, William "Bill"
Sherrod, Robert
1969-12-15 Anders' decision to become Executive Secretary of
National Space Council,
Apollo 8 flight, Frank Borman
13285 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Anders,
William "Bill"
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-02-02 Which crewman took the
famous Apollo 8 "Earthrise"
photograph
13285 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Anders,
William "Bill"
Rollins, Paul 1997-10-08 Anders' Air Force career,
selection as an astronaut, crew selection for flights,
Apollo 8 flight, photographer
of famous Earthrise photo, work as executive secretary
of the National Aeronautics
and Space Council (NASC), NASA post-Apollo
18923 Transcript 36 pgs
Anderson, Clinton P.
Sherrod, Robert
1968-07-25 Effect of Phillips Report on NASA Administrator James
Webb's relationship with Congress
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Anderson,
Paul
Gruen, Adam 1988-04-13 Management of Space
Station Freedom (SSF) budget, development of space
station cost models
95 Transcript 35 pgs Space Station
Freedom History (unpublished)
Anderson, Robert
Hoffman, Arnold
Brooks, Courtney
1970-07-21 TRW winning Apollo lunar module (LM) descent engine
contract, designing the LM descent engine, and
relationship with Grumman
Aerospace, the LM prime contractor
3567 Transcript 55 pgs Chariots for Apollo
Appold,
Norman C.
Sloop, John 1974-01-04 Liquid hydrogen aircraft
engines, Project Suntan, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft (PWA)
Division development of the
RL-10 rocket engine, and the Centaur launch vehicle
103 Transcript 94 pgs Liquid Hydrogen
as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959
Arabian, Donald D.
Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab space station repair, Skylab parasol, Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC), Johnson Spacecraft Center
(JSC)
106 & 7589
Transcript 63 pgs
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Armistead, Katherine H.
Hallion, Richard
1976-12-10 Armistead working as a woman computer at Dryden
Flight Research Center
(DFRC) in the 1950s and 1960s, living at DFRC in the
1950s, Roxanne Yancey,
institutional culture of NACA versus NASA at DFRC,
death of test pilot Joe Walker
6685 Transcript 42 pgs On the Frontier
Armstrong,
Neil A.
Furlong,
William
1966-00-00 Armstrong's philosophy of
life, education, X-20
Dynosoar, X-15 experimental aircraft, difference in job
between test pilot and an
astronaut, how he would feel about being on the first
Apollo flight to land on the
moon versus one of the later flights
13282 Transcript 20 pgs Copyrighted
by World
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Service
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Armstrong, Neil A.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-09-23 Interview upon leaving NASA, Apollo 11 flight,
notes on Norman Mailer's
description of Neil
Armstrong, Armstrong's
personality, service in
Korean War, Apollo crew selection process
13285 Notes 12 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Armstrong, Neil A.
Hallion, Richard
1972-01-26 Experience with Century Series aircraft as a NACA
test pilot, flying B-29
"mother ship" for X-plane flights, flight simulation at
High Speed Flight Station
(HSFS) in the 1950s
112 & 6685
Notes 6 pgs On the Frontier
Arnold, James
A.
Tatarewicz,
Joseph
1993-03-16 Lunar Receiving Laboratory
(LRL), lunar samples, LRL
quarantine measures, lessons
learned from handling Apollo
11 and Apollo 12 lunar
samples, Lunar Science Institute (LSI)
19508 Transcript 41 pgs Astrogeology
History
(unpublished)
Asimov, Isaac Bourgin, Simon
1974-11-00 Polish Space Exhibit #3 123 Transcript 17 pgs
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Atwood, J. Leland
Sherrod, Robert
1969-06-24 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Apollo 1 Review Board
Report, Phillips Report,
relationship between James Webb and Atwood after
Apollo 1 fire, Frank Borman,
lobbyist Fred Black, North American Aviation (NAA)
selected as Apollo spacecraft
prime contractor
13135 &
13285
Notes 10 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Atwood, J. Leland
Swenson, Lloyd S.
1970-07-16 North American Aviation, P-51 through X-15 aircraft
117 Transcript 17 pgs Apollo Oral History
Interviews
Atwood, J. Leland
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-04-10 Cause of Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire from North American
Aviation (NAA) point of
view, problems with the Saturn V S-II stage, Harrison
"Stormy" Storms, Phillips
Report, Webb's relationship with NAA and Atwood, Dale
Myers, Atwood's view of the
Apollo 1 fire investigation
report
7106 Notes 11 pgs Powering Apollo
Augerson, Col. William
S.
Pitts, John 1979-05-08 Astronaut selection process for Project Mercury, life
sciences at NASA during the
1960s and 1970s
118 Transcript 38 pgs The Human Factor
Bacon, David Keller,
Michael
1967-10-03 Langley Research Center
(LaRC) since 1920
124 Transcript 18 pgs Kitty Hawk to
Muroc
Bales, Steven Burke, James 1979-05-18 Apollo 11 lunar landing and
operation of Apollo lunar module (LM) guidance
computer
134 Transcript 12 pgs Copyright
BBC
Bales, Steven 1996-00-00 Apollo 11 lunar landing 134 Transcript 3 pgs Copyright
Family Channel
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Balombin, Joseph R.
McMahon, A. Michal
1986-05-13 Balombin's education as an electrical engineer, decision
to work at Lewis Research
Center (LeRC), engine noise abatement program, switch to
communications systems and
Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS)
program, Balombin's sense of
connection to NASA as a
whole, advantages of
working at NASA rather than
industry, LeRC organization, scientists versus engineers,
career paths for engineers at
LeRC
3578 Transcript 15 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Barbance, Krige, John 2007-06-22 European Space Agency 11183 Transcript 32 pgs NASA in the Karin (ESA), cooperation between World
ESA and NASA
Barlow, Mel
R.
Swenson,
Lloyd S.
Ertel, Ivan 1970-01-28 Lunar orbit rendezvous
(LOR) vs. earth orbit
rendezvous (EOR) studies,
Apollo command module
(CM) design, benefits of space program, Thomas O.
Paine as NASA administrator
19518 Transcript 25 pgs Before This
Decade Is Out
Barnes, Swanson, 1999-03-26 Apollo 11 crew post-flight 19519 Transcript 42 pgs Before This Geneva B. Glen world tour Decade Is Out
Barnes, Krige, John 2008-03-27 International Relations 11183 Transcript 43 pgs NASA in the
Richard J.H. Division, Office of External World
Relations
Barnes, Maharaj, 2008-04-28 NASA international 11183 Transcript 29 pgs NASA in the Richard J.H. Ashok cooperation with India, World
Pakistan, and Brazil
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Barrett, William F.
Guilmartin, Joseph
1984-10-01 Space Shuttle External Tank (ET), concerns on ice and
frost from ET could damage
Shuttle orbiter thermal protection system (tiles), ET
structural testing, ET thermal
protection system (TPS), Barrett's work on Dyna-Soar
program at Martin Company,
TPS design work during
1960s, competing for Shuttle
orbiter TPS contract
19886 Transcript 27 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Bartoe, John-David F.
Gruen, Adam 1987-10-27 Management of the Space Station Freedom (SSF)
science program, Office of
Chief Scientist present and future
140 Transcript 43 pgs Space Station Freedom History
(unpublished)
Bartoe, John- Gruen, Adam 1988-04-13 Bartoe's role as NASA Chief 6685 Transcript 43 pgs NASA Culture
David F. Scientist Study (unpublished)
Battle, Lucius Lambright, W. Henry
1990-01-18 Webb's tenure as Undersecretary of State
during Truman
administration, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and his
relationship with Webb,
Secretary of Defense Lewis Johnson, Webb and Paul
Nitze, Webb as a non-policy
person at the State Department
7106 Notes 7 pgs Powering Apollo
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Beatty, Marvin E. III
Fries, Sylvia 1987-11-14 Beatty's education in nuclear engineering, working briefly
for the US Navy as a civilian
in nuclear engineering, transfer to NASA Langley
Research Center (LaRC),
research on radiation damage to satellite parts, switch to
integrated optics research and
solid-state computing, Space
Station Freedom (SSF)
computer network design,
LaRC office politics, difference between scientists
3578 Transcript 23 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
and engineers, reality of
research versus public perception, increased reliance
on contractors, career options
for engineers at LaRC, LaRC center culture, SSF program
at LaRC
Becker, John Bonney, 1973-03-27 X-1A and X-2 supersonic 148 & Transcript 10 pgs NACA History V. Walter aircraft, NACA wind tunnel 19511 (unpublished)
research in supersonic flight
Becker, John Emme, 1976-02-10 NACA/NASA career 1936- 13458 Transcript 69 pgs Early NASA V. Eugene 1963 History
(unpublished)
Beckler,
David
Emme,
Eugene
1974-02-14 The Office of Defense
Mobilization, Science Advisory Committee,
Presidential Science
Advisory Committee (PSAC), Eisenhower
Administration science and
space policy, and creation of NASA
5029 Transcript 3 pgs Early NASA
History (unpublished)
Beckman, Merrifield, 1967-11-29 Mercury mission control 18993 Transcript 11 pgs MSC History
David A. Robert operations, mission control (unpublished)
training and operations at remote sites
Beeler, D. Hallion, 1976-12-01 Historical flight research at 6685 Transcript 66 pgs On the Frontier
Elroy Richard Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
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Beggs, James M.
1981-00-00 Government/industry relationship, space
commercialization, NASA
organization, management, and budgeting
4273 Transcript 19 pgs
Beggs, James
M.
Rodriguez,
Ivelisse
1982-12-15 Highlights of 1982, Space
Shuttle flights, Landsat D satellite launch and Earth
resources observation, space
sciences research, construction of Shuttle
remote manipulator system
(RMS) by Canada, NASA FY1983 budget, Spacelab
project, planetary
exploration, aeronautical research, space station
project, cooperation with
DoD, Space Shuttle capability for satellite repair
or retrieval, Tracking and
Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), navigation
satellites, search and rescue
satellites, space technology spinoffs
4284 Transcript 46 pgs
Beggs, James
M.
McCurdy,
Howard
1985-09-03 Beggs' nomination for
position of NASA administrator by Reagan
administration, Senate
confirmation hearings, new goals and initiatives
established for NASA,
NASA budgetary issues, proposed development of
space station program, Space
Shuttle program, launch of STS-1 mission, concerns
over funding for Space
Shuttle and proposed space station programs, Department
of Defense (DoD) support for
Space Shuttle and space station programs, and support
for Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI).
15574 Notes 9 pgs
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Beggs, James M.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-05-09 Webb's use of consultants, Webb's management style at
NASA, Webb's relationships
with Hugh Dryden and Bob Seamans, Webb's enemies,
Webb's personality
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Beggs, James M.
Albrecht, Mark
Kress, Martin Kay, Woody 1999-11-01 Panel discussion titled "Commercial Space Policy of
the 1980s", participants -
Mark Albrecht, James Beggs, Martin Kress, James Muncy,
James Rose, Gil Rye, and
Robert Walker
18928 Transcript 99 pgs Commercial Space Policy of
the 1980s Oral
History Workshop
Bell, David E. McBundy, George
Sorenson, Theodore
Logsdon, John 1967-10-04 Stimulating the economy, increasing defense and space
spending, setting specific
goals for the space program, and President Kennedy's
decision to send a man to the
moon by the end of the decade
153 Transcript 19 pgs John F. Kennedy and the Race to
the Moon
Bell, David E. Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-01-17 Webb's tenure as Director of
Bureau of Budget (BoB)
during the Truman
administration, Webb's management style, Apollo
program from BoB
standpoint
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
Bell, Lucian Sherrod,
Robert
1970-03-12 Apollo 6 Saturn 5 test flight,
liquid oxygen (LOX) as a propulsion fuel, Saturn V
POGO problems
13285 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Bellman, Donald R.
Hallion, Richard
1977-03-04 Flight Research Center (FRC), X-series experimental
aircraft, aircraft testing,
aircraft safety, FRC test pilots, aircraft accident
investigations
6685 Transcript 111 pgs On the Frontier
Belsley,
Steven E.
Bonney,
Walter
1974-09-24 Belsley's work at Ames
Research Center (ARC) on stability, control, and
automatic control of aircraft
154 &
19511
Transcript 9 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
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Berg, Capt. Winfred E.
Green, Constance
Lomask, Milton
1967-04-10 Development of the Vanguard launch vehicle and
launch of Explorer 1 satellite
161 Transcript 6 pgs Vanguard: A History
Bergen, William
Sherrod, Robert
1969-08-20 Circumstances of Bergen's departure from North
American Rockwell Corporation
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Bergman,
Jules
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-02-22 The method of the feeding of
the Phillips report to
Congress
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Berman, Kurt Brooks,
Courtney
1971-12-02 The design of the Lunar
Module (LM) and the LM
ascent stage by Bell Aerospace
167 Transcript 40 pgs Chariots for
Apollo
Berry, Charles A.
Grimwood, James
1968-03-18 Mercury 7 astronaut selection, Gemini crews,
grounding Shepard and
Slayton, post-flight medical problems of Schirra and
Cooper, and effects of 0 G
and extravehicular activities (EVA)
169 Transcript 24 pgs On the Shoulders of Titans
Berry, Charles
A.
Merrifield,
Robert
1967-10-30 Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC) medical operations – institutional aspects, crew
support, scientific issues,
Berry’s selection as medic, agency roles, flight
monitoring, set up of medical
program, grounding of Slayton and Shepard
169 Transcript 28 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Berry, Charles
A.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-12-15 Berry refusing to allow
President Nixon to have
dinner with Apollo 11 crew before flight, Apollo 7 crew
illness during flight, Rusty
Schweickart and motion sickness
13285 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Berry, Charles
A.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-07-15 Joe Shea, Ed White, Apollo
14 crew EVA to Cone Crater
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
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Berry, Charles Sherrod, 1971-08-02 Psychiatrists in Apollo 13285 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History Telephone A. Robert program, speaking (unpublished) interview
engagements regarding
Apollo, space food
Berry, Charles
A.
Sherrod,
Robert
1973-04-24 Norman Mailer, Berry's
decision to become a physician, Navy V-12
program for college and
medical school, joining the US Air Force during Korean
War and being trained in
aviation medicine, US aerospace medicine in the
1950s, Berry chosen to help
select Mercury astronauts, detail to NASA, organization
of life sciences at NASA,
Soyuz 11 accident, effects of long duration space flight,
astronaut radiation exposure
during Apollo flights, Apollo 15 crew cardiac arrhythmia,
getting Deke Slayton
medically qualified for Apollo Soyuz Test Project
(ASTP) flight, added
potassium to drinks on Apollo 16 and Apollo 17
flights, Rusty Schweickart,
difference in postflight recovery time between
command module pilots and
lunar landing crewmen
13134
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Bikle, Paul McCurdy, Howard
1988-06-21 Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) becoming an
independent NASA center,
Bikle offered job as center director of DFRC in 1959,
Bikle's education as
aeronautical engineer, comparison of US Air Force
(USAF) and NASA aircraft
testing organization in 1959,
organizing a NASA aircraft
testing program, additional
attention from NASA Headquarters on details of
center management leading
to Bikle's retirement in 1971, X-15 experimental airplane
program management,
training new NASA aeronautical engineers in
flight testing, Hugh Dryden,
risk management at NASA, safety as a way of life rather
than "a thing you do",
whether risk increases with complexity of aircraft, source
of program cost overruns
resulting from political considerations in selling a
program rather than technical
problems in development, Bikle's views on Shuttle
program, Lunar Landing
Research Vehicle (LLRV)
18720 Transcript 47 pgs Inside NASA
Bingman, 1967-07-19 Space Task Group (STG) 176 Transcript 8 pgs
Charles F. organization and decision about site of the Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC)
Bioletti, Bonney, 1974-09-25 Design and development of 177 Transcript 8 pgs NACA History Carlton Walter wind tunnels at Ames and (unpublished)
Langley Research Centers
(LaRC)
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Bird, John D. Ertel, Ivan 1966-06-20 Development of the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)
concept and early designs for
the lunar module (LM)
178 Transcript 15 pgs
Black, Fred,
Jr.
Sherrod,
Robert
1973-02-27 Black's role as consultant and
public relations person for
North American Aviation
(NAA), Senator Robert Kerr,
selection of NAA as prime contractor for Apollo
command and service module
(CSM), NAA officials testimony before Congress on
the Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
Bobby Baker, James Webb, Black's legal troubles,
Harrison Storms, Lee
Atwood, Brainerd Holmes, Joe Shea, contract
management, Robert
Seamans
13135
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13285
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(unpublished)
Blamont, Krige, John 2007-07-04 NASA international 11183 Transcript 32 pgs NASA in the
Jacques cooperation with France and World French space program
(CNES)
Bland, Sherrod, 1969-10-28 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, 1966 13285 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History William M., Robert view of danger of fire in (unpublished)
Jr. Apollo command module
(CM)
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Blankenship, McCurdy, 1989-05-11 NASA's priorities as an 18720 Transcript 35 pgs Inside NASA Charles Howard agency when Blankenship
hired in 1964, Blankenship's
decision to transfer from Lewis Research Center
(LeRC) to Langley Research
Center (LaRC), George Deutsch, focus of NASA
research in 1980s on applied
technology rather than
fundamental concepts,
difference between Apollo
program and Shuttle program in larger amount of testing
for Apollo and willingness to
use new technology as a result of greater testing, loss
of in-house technical
capability at NASA after Apollo, LeRC doing research
for the Department of Energy
(DoE) in 1970s, NASA underestimating operational
costs of Space Shuttle,
desirability of commercializing the Shuttle
program, what qualities
NASA looks for in an employee and a manager,
tightening of Headquarters
management oversight over centers after manned space
flight accidents,
Blankenship's belief that NASA should be focused on
technology development
rather than primarily operational space flight
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Boeckel, John H.
Fries, Sylvia 1986-05-23 Boeckel's education as a mechanical engineer, work at
Naval Ordinance Laboratory
(NOL), transfer to Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC),
managing engineers at
GSFC, non-managerial career options for engineers at
GSFC, difference between
scientists and engineers,
increase in NASA
bureaucracy, early years of
GSFC
3577 Transcript 15 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Bolce,
William J.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-10-08 Science and Technology
Advisory Committee for
Manned Spaceflight (STAC), Apollo Executives Board
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Bond, Aleck Merrifield, Robert
1967-10-10 Development of spacecraft testing facilities at Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC),
White Sands Test Facility (WSTF), Lunar Receiving
Laboratory (LRL)
18993 Transcript 20 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Bond, Aleck 1973-06-12 Bond's involvement in
Project Mercury to develop a
suitable reentry structure
199 &
7589
Transcript 29 pgs
Bonney,
Walter T.
Sherrod,
Robert
1973-04-02 Bids for the astronauts'
stories by various magazines, LIFE contract
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Boone, Adm. Walter F.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-03-18 Conflict between NASA and the Department of Defense
(DOD)
13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Boone, Adm.
Walter F.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-05-10 Boone being hired by Webb
to run the NASA Office of
Defense Affairs, Webb's Congressional testimony,
relationship between Webb
and Robert McNamara, military detailees at NASA,
relationship between NASA
and the Department of Defense (DoD)
7106 Notes 7 pgs Powering Apollo
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Booth, Richard G.
Fries, Sylvia 1986-11-14 Booth's work as a co-op student at Langley Research
Center (LaRC) in the 1960s,
volunteering for US Air Force (USAF) to avoid Army
service in Vietnam, service as
USAF digital communications technician,
return to LaRC as computer
data acquisitions technician,
converting wind tunnels to
computerized systems,
attempt to obtain master's in computer programming at
George Washington
University, changes in LaRC center culture
3578 Transcript 12 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Borman, Col. Sherrod, 1971-12-03 Borman's appointment to 13285 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History Telephone Frank Robert West Point, Apollo 8 flight (unpublished) interview
planning
Borman, Col.
Frank
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-09-07 NASA Administrator James
Webb as leader, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire investigation,
use of astronauts for political
purposes
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Bossart, Karel Sloop, John 1974-04-27 Development and testing of 214 Transcript 44 pgs Liquid Hydrogen
J. the Atlas launch vehicle, as a Propulsion development of Centaur Fuel, 1945-1959
launch vehicle
Bourgin, Sherrod, 1969-09-02 Bourgin travels with 13285 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
Simon Robert astronauts, focusing on Frank (unpublished) Borman
Brackett,
Ernest
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-04-01 Selection of North American
Aviation (NAA) as prime contractor for Apollo
spacecraft, NASA contract
selection process
13285 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Brackett, Sherrod, 1971-08-25 General Electric Apollo 13285 Notes 1 pg Apollo History Ernest Robert contract of 1962-1963 (unpublished)
Bragdon, David C.
Fries, Sylvia 1987-03-11 Bragdon hired at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in 1966
to work in Gemini flight
simulation, training Apollo astronaut crews in simulators,
Apollo 13 accident,
socializing and working with Apollo astronauts during
quarantine, near layoff in
1970, work as a computer engineer in the 1950s and
early 1960s, work as a
spacecraft coordinator for satellites at KSC, addition of
Space Shuttle satellite payloads, additional work
required to launch satellites
on manned systems vs. unmanned systems,
management of satellite
checkout operations at KSC, career ladder for NASA
3578 Transcript 19 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Audio of interview
continues on
Jack Kuritsky cassette
engineers, balance of in-
house development and contracting since the 1960s
Bray, Richard Fries, Sylvia 1985-08-09 Joining Ames Research Center (ARC) in the 1940s,
aircraft flight research at
ARC, changes at ARC when NACA became NASA,
aircraft simulators
3577 Transcript 15 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Conclusion of interview on
Byron
Swenson cassette
Bray, Richard Fries, Sylvia 1985-08-09 Joining Ames Research
Center (ARC) in the 1940s, aircraft flight research at
ARC, changes at ARC when
NACA became NASA,
aircraft simulators
3577 Transcript 15 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
Brazil, Ray L. Merrifield, Robert
1968-04-05 Move of Space Task Group (STG) from Langley
Research Center (LaRC) to
Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), transportation
services at MSC
18993 Transcript 11 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
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Bridger, Green, Lomask, 1967-08-03 Vanguard second stage 226 Notes 1 pg Vanguard: A James M. Constance Milton engine tests, use of spherical History
satellite for Vanguard
Brinkley, Randy
Bingham, Jeffrey
1999-04-23 Space Station (ISS) policy issues, Space Station and
White House/ Congress, Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) repair mission, ISS
and international partners,
value of Shuttle/Mir program
to ISS
18925 Transcript 19 pgs
Brinkmann, Merrifield, Space photography during 18993 Transcript 23 pgs MSC History
John R. Robert Project Mercury, changes in (unpublished) photography during Gemini
and Apollo programs
Brock, Georgia H.
Fries, Sylvia 1987-03-11 Brock's college career, hiring at Kennedy Space Center as
systems analyst for launch vehicle guidance programs
and launch vehicle data,
transition to information management in the 1980s,
creation of center-wide office
automation system for KSC after Challenger (STS-51L)
accident, development of
KSC computer capabilities from the 1960s onward,
being a woman computer
engineer in the 1960s and 1970s, role of center directors
in how women were
perceived on center, 1970s Booz-Allen KSC
management report and its
results at KSC, KSC contract management
3578 Transcript 19 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Brown, B. Ertel, Ivan 1966-05-25 Support requirements for 235 Transcript 22 pgs Porter Mercury, compared to
Gemini, anticipated requirements for Apollo
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Brown, Harold
Damohn, Mark
1998-06-05 Role of the Department of Defense (DoD) in Space
Shuttle design, Brown’s role as Secretary of Defense during Carter’s
Administration, the NASA-
DoD relationship, the Space Shuttle and DoD payloads
18926 Transcript 20 pgs
Bruning,
William
Brooks,
Courtney
1971-12-08 Bruning's role as Grumman
manufacturing manager for Apollo Lunar Module (LM)
243 Transcript 35 pgs Chariots for
Apollo
Brunk, William E.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-10-30 Nomenclature of lunar features, Apollo 8 and Apollo
11 names for lunar craters,
international procedure for naming lunar features
13137 &
13285
Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Bug-
Townsend, Leah
Rosenfeld,
Susan
2003-09-23 Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 5 pgs Educator
Astronaut Program (EAP)
History
(unpublished)
Bulifant, George F.
Keller, Michael
1967-06-15 Relations with military, community, Green Cow to
Mixen
273 Notes 2 pgs Kitty Hawk to Muroc
Bundy,
McGeorge
Logsdon, John 1967-10-04 Decision on Shepard
Mercury flight postponement
253 Transcript 4 pgs John F. Kennedy
and the Race to the Moon
Burger, Warren E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1992-02-20 Webb's role on Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents,
Webb's management style
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Burke, Adm.
Arleigh
Mason, John,
Jr.
1972-09-19 Polaris missile 19414 Transcript 36 pgs In Admiral
Arleigh Burke Navy folder
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Butchart, Stanley
McCurdy, Howard
1988-06-20 Butchart's career as a naval aviator during World War II,
joining the NACA Flight
Research Center (FRC) in 1951 as a research pilot,
appointment as Chief of
Flight Operations after test pilot Joe Walker's death in
1966, Butchart's familiarity
with Langley Research Center (LaRC) and its
oversight of FRC during the
1950s, work with Century Series aircraft, forming the
corps of research pilots at
FRC, hiring Neil Armstrong, Hugh Dryden, Paul Bikle as
center director, decline in
center management after Bikle left, level of risk in
flight research programs in
the 1950s and 1960s, lack of escape systems on early
research aircraft, X-15
program, personnel cuts at FRC during the 1970s, skill
of NASA flight research engineers, Challenger (STS-
51L) accident, increased level
of complication in jet aircraft particularly after fly-by-wire
systems used, B-47 flutter
problems
18720 Transcript 55 pgs Inside NASA
Butler, T. Bonney, 1973-03-29 Butler's career in providing 267 & Transcript 11 pgs NACA History
Melvin Walter administrative support for 19511 (unpublished) NACA research
Byrnes,
Martin A., Jr.
Merrifield,
Robert
1967-12-12 Construction of Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC),
rented space during
construction, relationships with Houston community
18993 Transcript 44 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
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Caidin, Scala, Keith 1994-00-00 Caidin's sci-fi books and non- 277 Transcript 7 pgs Transcript Martin fiction aerospace books reprinted in
Quest
Magazine
Callaghan,
Richard
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-01-27 Discussion in Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire Congressional hearings on NASA selection
of North American Aviation
(NAA) as Apollo spacecraft
prime contractor, contract
selection, Phillips Report,
James Webb, Senator Walter Mondale, Congressional
relations, Webb's
management style, George Mueller, Brainerd Holmes,
Joe Shea, Apollo 1 fire, Fred
Black, Webb's sense of integrity, Callaghan sent to
NASA as Kennedy
Administration "plant", Webb's refusal to play
politics with procurements,
Kenny O'Donnell and Webb, Webb's relationship with
President Kennedy, use of
astronaut appearances for political capital, Frank
Borman, John Glenn,
deterioration of relationship between Webb and Robert
Seamans after Apollo 1 fire,
Webb's personality, Webb's proposal to move Marshall
Space Flight Center (MSFC)
away from Alabama due to civil rights issues
13138
& 13285
Transcript 76 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Callaghan,
Richard
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-05-11 Callaghan's role as Kennedy
administration man at NASA, role as NASA White House
liaison, political pressure on
NASA from White House and Congress, astronaut
appearance requests,
Congressional relations and
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb's handling of
Congress, Fred Black and Apollo contract to North
American Aviation (NAA),
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire investigation and Phillips
Report
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Callaghan,
Richard
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-05-14 Clarification on Callaghan's
role as NASA White House
liaison
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Campagna, I. Edward
Merrifield, Robert
1967-08-24 Site selection process for Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC), construction of MSC
18993 Transcript 20 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Campbell,
Donald B.
Butrica,
Andrew
1993-12-07 Radar astronomy of Venus
and the Sun, Aricebo Observatory, Department of
Defense (DoD) and NASA
funding of Aricebo Observatory
18918 Transcript 32 pgs To See the
Unseen
Campbell,
Donald B.
Butrica,
Andrew
1993-12-08 Aricebo Observatory, radar
astronomy of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Sun, and use
of radar in selecting Apollo
and Viking landing sites
18918 Transcript 62 pgs To See the
Unseen
Campbell,
Donald B.
Butrica,
Andrew
1993-12-09 Use of radar astronomy by
other space scientists, radar astronomy of comets and
asteroids, program
management of Aricebo Observatory, training of
planetary radar astronomers
18918 Transcript 48 pgs To See the
Unseen
Canright,
Marchelle ("Shelley")
Rosenfeld,
Susan
Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 3 pgs Educator
Astronaut Program (EAP)
History
(unpublished)
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Cantus, H. Hollister
McCurdy, Howard
1987-09-03 Cantus coming to NASA at behest of Dale Myers,
NASA's lack of political
astuteness, reasons for disconnect between level of
public support of space
program and NASA funding, cost effectiveness of NASA
research and development,
lack of formalized management processes and
lines of communication at
NASA, need for NASA to actively compete for funding
via media and Congressional
relations, management challenges due to
demographics of NASA
workforce, risk aversion in NASA management after
Challenger (STS-51L)
accident, defining acceptable levels of risk, Cantus'
concern over NASA
becoming an operational agency with space station
rather than a research and development agency
18720 Transcript 30 pgs Inside NASA
Carlisle, Hodge, John Fries, Sylvia 1985-03-04 Carlisle sat in on interview 290 Transcript 18 pgs Space Station Richard with Hodge – Space Station Freedom History
Task Force (SSTF) (unpublished)
Carlisle,
Richard
Gruen, Adam 1988-04-28 Office of Advanced Science
and Technology (OAST),
defining future technology needs and opportunities for
improvement
290 Transcript 27 pgs
Carmichael, Levine, 1960-08-23 Secretary of Smithsonian 293 Notes 6 pgs NACA History Leonard Arthur Institution, opinions of (unpublished)
NACA’s success
Casani, John Krige, John 2009-05-18 NASA international 11183 Transcript 44 pgs NASA in the
R. cooperation on Helios, World Galileo, and Cassini missions
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Case, Mel Shepherd, Leonard
Ertel, Ivan 1972-04-04 Case's role as Senior Design Engineer at ILC – Apollo
spacesuit
304 Transcript 46 pgs
Cate, Ben Sherrod,
Robert
1972-07-18 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Joe
Shea
13237
& 13286
Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Causse, Jean-
Pierre
Krige, John 2007-05-18 NASA international
cooperation with France and
French space program
(CNES)
11183 Transcript 18 pgs NASA in the
World
Cepollina,
Frank J. ("Cepi")
Dick, Steven
J.
2004-05-02 Designing satellites to be
serviced by astronauts, Solar Max repair, Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) servicing
missions, cancellation of fifth servicing mission, switch to
satellite servicing with
robotic missions, robotic servicing of HST in 2007
19820 Transcript 28 pgs Hubble Servicing
(unpublished)
Champine, Robert
Hallion, Richard
1971-11-11 XS-1, D-558-1, test flights in 1948
311 Transcript 9 pgs
Chang,
Sherwood
Dick, Steven
J.
1997-11-21 Exobiology and meteorites,
"Mars rock" and possibility of life on Mars, exobiology
program at Ames Research
Center (ARC)
19505 Transcript 19 pgs SETI History
(unpublished)
Charlesworth, Clifford E.
Vorzimmer, Peter
Grimwood, James
1966-12-13 Gemini flight operations, Gemini in-flight
malfunctions, rendezvous in
Gemini
19520 Transcript 12 pgs On the Shoulders of Titans
Used for "Before This
Decade Is
Out"
Charlesworth,
Clifford E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-03-02 Apollo 8 flight from flight
director's perspective
13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
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Chilton, Robert G.
Swenson, Lloyd S.
1970-03-30 Spacecraft guidance and navigation, Mercury
program, Gemini program,
Apollo program, earth orbit rendezvous (EOR) vs. lunar
orbit rendezvous (LOR),
spacecraft design
19521 Transcript 28 pgs Chariots for Apollo
Used for "Before This
Decade Is
Out"
Clarke,
Walton
1976-04-16 Skylab Program Manager re:
Skylab 1 damage during
launch
332 Transcript 20 pgs
Clements, Henry
Grimwood, James
Corliss, William
1966-11-16 Manned Spacecraft Center, Mercury, DoD interface with
NASA
335 Transcript 28 pgs
Clifford,
Clark
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-01-19 Clifford's relationship with
Webb during Truman administration, Webb's
resignation from NASA,
Clifford's assessment of Webb's character, Webb and
James Forrestal
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
Clifton, Maj. Gen. C.V.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-03-18 Confrontation between Wernher von Braun and
President John F. Kennedy's
science advisors over lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)
13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Cohen, Aaron Swenson,
Lloyd S.
1970-01-14 Spacecraft guidance and
navigation, Apollo program, Apollo lunar module (LM)
radar, spacecraft design,
Apollo command module (CM), relationship with
NASA contractors, safety,
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Joseph Shea, MIT Draper
Laboratory and Apollo
guidance
19522 Transcript 32 pgs Chariots for
Apollo
Used for
"Before This Decade Is
Out"
Cohen, Aaron Sherrod, Robert
1972-04-23 Apollo 16 flight and problems with service
module propulsion system
(SPS), Apollo command module (CM) design changes
after Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
design changes to CM after
13286 Transcript 9 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Apollo 13 accident, Apollo
program crisis management
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Cohen,
Nathaniel
McMahon, A.
Michal
1985-05-30 Cohen's desire to become an
engineer due to World War II and Korean War, going to
graduate school while
working at Langley Research Center (LaRC), high speed
aerodynamics work at LaRC,
reentry aerodynamics research, decision not to join
Space Task Group (STG),
transfer to NASA Headquarters, NASA long-
range planning, being both an
engineer and a manager
3577 Transcript 29 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
Coldwater, Harold R.
McMahon, A. Michal
1986-10-08 Coldwater's early interest in engineering, service in US
Army Air Forces (USAAF)
at the end of World War II, college education as civil
engineer, design work at
Douglas on A-3D, A-4D, and
F-4D aircraft; switch to
Brown Engineering in
Huntsville and then on to Marshall Space Flight Center
(MSFC) as structural
engineer for advanced projects, move into structural
testing of launch vehicles,
Coldwater's management philosophy, becoming an
engineering manager at
NASA, lack of advancement for engineers who do not take
the management track,
increase in bureaucracy at NASA since the 1970s,
impact of Challenger (STS-
51L) accident, contract managment post-Challenger,
difference in engineering education in the 1950s and
3579 Transcript 67 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
1980s, use of electronic
computers at MSFC
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Collin,
Everett E.
Collin, Rick 1992-08-00 Spacemobile program and
NASA education programs
10213 Transcript 67 pgs
Collins, Martin
Lambright, W. Henry
1986-05-28 NASA Administrator James Webb's theories on
administration
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Collins,
Martin
Lambright, W.
Henry
1986-06-23 NASA Administrator James
Webb's relationships with senior NASA and White
House officials
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Collins, Martin
Lambright, W. Henry
1986-07-15 NASA Administrator James Webb's lessons in
management from US
Marines career
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Collins,
Martin
Lambright, W.
Henry
1988-12-15 NASA Administrator James
Webb and NASA recovery from Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Collins, Michael
Cromie, William
1969-02-00 Flight simulations for Apollo 11 flight, work in command
module (CM) while Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are on lunar surface, being
selected as crew for Apollo
11, Collins' musings on likely fame after flight, Collins'
navigation tasks during
Apollo 11, rendezvous with lunar module (LM) in lunar
orbit
13197 Transcript 11 pgs
Collins,
Michael
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-09-03 Collins' work at the State
Department, Collins' views on other Apollo astronauts,
Apollo 11 flight
13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Collins,
Michael
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-12-20 Michael Collins' religion 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Collins,
Michael
Sherrod,
Robert
1974-09-09 Michael Collins'
autobiography, Carrying the
Fire
13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Collins, Michael
Rosenbaum, Stewart
1983-00-00 Gemini and Apollo, Shuttle, future programs (Mars, space
station)
7861 Transcript 20 pgs
Collins,
Michael
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-06-15 Collins' view of NASA
Headquarters and Webb while he was an Apollo
astronaut, astronaut view of
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and investigation, North
American Aviation (NAA)
work on Apollo spacecraft compared to McDonnell
work on Gemini spacecraft,
Collins' view of George Mueller and "all-up" testing
philosophy, Webb's advice to
Collins during Collins' tenure at the State Department and
Smithsonian, Webb's
management style
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
Collins, Michael
Kelly, Michelle
Rollins, Paul 1997-10-08 Gemini 10 flight, Gemini 10 extravehicular activity
(EVA), Apollo 8 flight,
Apollo 11 flight
20188 Transcript 40 pgs JSC Oral History Project
Conrad,
Charles "Pete"
Furlong,
William
1967-00-00 Conrad's hobbies of racing
cars and boats, Conrad's education compared to his
sons, sons' reaction to father
as astronaut, flying a biplane is Conrad's free time,
working at the local airport as
a teenager to earn flying time, Mercury astronaut
selection failure
13284 Transcript 36 pgs Copyrighted
by World Book
Encyclopedia
Service (WBESS)
Conrad, Charles "Pete"
Sherrod, Robert
1970-04-15 Apollo 12 flight, Conrad's education
13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Cook, Donald Logsdon, John 1967-10-05 Meetings to recommend to
president the direction of space program
366 Transcript 10 pgs John F. Kennedy
and the Race to the Moon
Cooke, Douglas
Bingham, Jeffrey
1999-05-13 Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Test (ALT)
program, Space Station
Freedom, International Space Station (ISS), NASA space
18929 Transcript 60 pgs
station planning and
management, NASA budget, Congressional relations, the
Russian space program
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Cooper, Ralph
S.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-07-23 Senator Sparkman,
“Columbus had Trouble Too”, Columbus‘s
exploration compared to
space exploration, satire
letter written by Cooper
13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Cooper, Richard
Rosenfeld, Susan
2004-12-09 Educator Astronaut (EA) program, EA astronaut
selection, EA application
process
19749 Transcript 4 pgs Educator Astronaut
Program (EAP)
History (unpublished)
Coors, Joseph Baucom,
Donald
1987-07-31 Strategic Defense Initiative
(SDI)
16766 Transcript 15 pgs
Cortright, Edgar M.
Hall, R. Cargill
Emme, Eugene
1968-03-04 NASA-JPL relationship during Ranger Project,
Ranger spacecraft, naming
the Ranger Project, Ranger scientific experiments,
Congressional investigation
into Ranger failures, Ranger photographs
18930 Transcript 24 pgs Lunar Impact
Cortright, Emme, 1974-02-20 Langley Research Center 13458 Transcript 50 pgs Early NASA Edgar M. Eugene (LaRC) History
(unpublished)
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Cortright, McCurdy, 1990-08-31 Cortright joining NACA at 18720 Transcript 58 pgs Inside NASA Edgar M. Howard Lewis Research Center
(LeRC) after graduate school,
Cortright pulled to NACA Headquarters for transition to
NASA and helping to form
the space program from the ground up, Cortright's work
at Lockheed after leaving
NASA in the 1970s, qualities NASA inherited from
NACA, management reasons
for Ranger program failures, Cortright becoming Langley
Research Center (LaRC),
changing LaRC recruitment practices, current challenges
for aeronautics researchers at
LaRC, LaRC center culture, increasing bureaucracy at
NASA Headquarters,
Cortright's concern over loss of NASA in-house technical
capabilities, NASA's
handling of risk via rigorous development and testing
programs in the 1960s, level of technical risk in Apollo
program, natural tendency of
organization to not work well together, cost overruns as a
norm rather than an
exception, 1969 meeting at NASA Headquarters to
decide whether or not to
proceed with Space Shuttle program, lack of reliability
for Shuttle program before
Challenger (STS-51L) accident, high probability of
another Shuttle accident due
to complexity of spacecraft, Cortright's critique of Hubble
mirror problem, changing
levels of public interest in space program from 1960s to
1990s, level of LaRC
involvement in space rather than aeronautics
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Cortright,
Edgar M.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-10-30 Webb's decision to move
Centaur launch vehicle program to Lewis Research
Center (LeRC), early Skylab
design, Webb's views on value of NASA science
programs, Webb's
relationships with NASA center directors, Webb and
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL)
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
Cothren,
Beverly S.
Johnson,
Sandra
Wright,
Rebecca
2001-06-15 Cothren's work at NACA
Langley Research Center (LaRC) Loads Division,
recruitment for Flight
Research Center (FRC), working as a "computer" for
FRC research flights, status
of women engineers and
mathematicians, life at
Edwards AFB
3636 Transcript 46 pgs Herstory Project
Cotter, Susan Rosenfeld,
Susan
2003-07-17 Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 2 pgs Educator
Astronaut Program (EAP)
History
(unpublished)
Coursen, John Brooks, Courtney
1971-12-08 Ground support equipment for lunar module (LM)
during Apollo program
387 Transcript 31 pgs Chariots for Apollo
Covington, Ozro M.
Sherrod, Robert
1969-03-06 Tananarive tracking station, HF radio, communications
for Apollo 8 and 9 flights
13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Covington,
Ozro M.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-01-22 Deep Space Network (DSN),
communications for Apollo 8 flight
13286 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
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Cox, Hiden Lambright, W. Henry
1990-04-10 Cox's hiring at NASA as Assistant Administrator for
Public Information,
organization of NASA public affairs circa 1961, Webb's
attempts to keep NASA
public affairs operations separate from Kennedy
administration White House,
Webb and astronaut finances controversies, Life contract
for astronaut stories, Webb
and the media, Webb's concern with public
perceptions of NASA,
functioning of Office of the Administrator under Webb,
Webb's management style
7106 Notes 13 pgs Powering Apollo
Cox, John Gruen, Adam 1988-04-21 Skylab experiments,
precedents set for Space Station Freedom (SSF)
experiments and procedures,
Space Station Operations Task Force (SSOTF), space
station utilization planning
6686 Transcript 47 pgs Space Station
Freedom History (unpublished)
Coy, Frank Fries, Sylvia 1985-12-13 NASA Administrator James
Beggs' departure from NASA following indictment on
fraud charges (later dropped)
4259 Notes 2 pgs
Creola, Peter Krige, John 2007-05-25 NASA international cooperation with Europe,
European Launcher
Development Organization (ELDO), European Space
Agency (ESA), and
Switzerland
11183 Transcript 45 pgs NASA in the World
Crippen, 1983-05-00 STS-7 mission, Crippen's 397 Transcript 17 pgs
Robert first flight as Shuttle commander
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Cronkite, Walter
Sherrod, Robert
1970-03-27 Press coverage of Apollo program, Cronkite's view of
NASA public affairs under
John "Shorty" Powers, Cronkite's broadcast of first
Saturn V launch
13200 &
13286
Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Culbertson,
Philip E.
Mauer, John 1983-10-19 Culbertson's work in long-
range planning for manned programs prior to Space
Shuttle, responsibility for
Shuttle payload planning, Skylab program as realization
that Apollo style spacecraft
not ideal for low earth orbit operations, decision to split
Shuttle and space station and
build Shuttle first, Culbertson assigned to develop Shuttle
mission model, forming
Shuttle payload pricing policy, possibility of
returning satellites from orbit
via Shuttle for repair or
refurbishment, effect of
Space Shuttle launch
schedules on payloads and users, effect of Shuttle launch
rate on Shuttle costs, whether
designing Shuttle for 100 missions has worked out in
practice, conflict with
scientists over high cost of manned missions, concern
that Shuttle may develop
problems obtaining spare parts due to changing state of
commercial technology,
Government Accounting
Office (GAO) critiques of
Space Shuttle program,
relationship between NASA and the Office of
Management and Budget
(OMB) on the Shuttle program
410 &
19886
Transcript 30 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
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Culbertson, Philip E.
Mauer, John 1984-10-29 Running alternative Space Shuttle concept studies in the
early 1970s, searching for
lower cost alternatives to fully reusable two stage
Shuttle design, end of Shuttle
concept as primarily space station focused, deciding on
types of missions/payloads
for Shuttle without a space station, decision to switch to
stage and a half partially
reusable Shuttle design, cost as driver for Shuttle design,
formation of Shuttle payload
pricing policy, applicability of Shuttle pricing policy to
Space Station Freedom
(SSF), creating a Shuttle mission model, relationship
between Culbertson's office
19886 Transcript 20 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
and Department of Defense (DoD) on Shuttle mission
planning, DoD decision to
keep some payloads on expendable launch vehicles
(ELVs)
Culbertson, Philip E.
Fries, Sylvia 1985-04-08 Culbertson's personal history, work at Convair on Atlas
launch vehicle, move to
NASA, Apollo Applications program, Space Shuttle
program planning, Shuttle
design, lessons of Skylab for Space Station Freedom (SSF)
3577 Transcript 14 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Culbertson, Fries, Sylvia 1985-05-10 Space Station Freedom (SSF) 410 Transcript 22 pgs Space Station
Philip E. technological transparency Freedom History
(unpublished)
Culbertson, Fries, Sylvia 1985-07-11 Space Station Freedom (SSF) 410 Transcript 21 pgs Space Station Philip E. design Freedom History
(unpublished)
Culbertson, Fries, Sylvia 1985-11-07 Space Station Freedom (SSF) 410 Transcript 7 pgs Space Station
Philip E. design change to dual keel Freedom History (unpublished)
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Culbertson, Fries, Sylvia 1986-03-27 International cooperation in 410 Transcript 29 pgs Space Station Philip E. the Space Station Freedom Freedom History
(SSF) program (unpublished)
Culbertson,
Philip E.
McCurdy,
Howard
1987-08-20 Culbertson's education as an
engineer, work at General Dynamics on Atlas launch
vehicle, decision to join
NASA in 1965, division director for advanced Apollo
studies, NASA's ability to
attract exceptional personnel in the 1960s due to
uniqueness of challenge and
mission, NASA now less attractive because of diversity
of opportunities in aerospace
engineering and increasing bureaucratization of NASA,
high risk and failure rates in
1960s acceptable due to newness of space flight, man-
rating the Atlas launch
vehicle, NASA processes for
ensuring reliability, since
1960s NASA management
capability strengthened and in-house technical capability
weakened, Space Shuttle and
space station requiring ability to accept failure and create
work-arounds because of
long life time of spacecraft, origins of system failures
being primarily result of
environments and events occurring that were
unanticipated or not required
to anticipate during design, problem of complacency in
long lasting programs,
balancing technology used between new inventions and
off-the-shelf, effect of push
to develop Shuttle on other NASA programs, whether
18720 Transcript 44 pgs Inside NASA
Shuttle safety compromised
by reduced NASA budgets, whether space flight
programs can be justified on
basis of being cost effective
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Culbertson,
Philip E.
Gruen, Adam 1988-02-09 Space commercialization and
the Space Station Freedom (SSF) program
410 Transcript 65 pgs Space Station
Freedom History (unpublished)
Culbertson, Philip E.
Fries, Sylvia McCurdy, Howard
1988-03-11 Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) and Space Station
Freedom (SSF)
410 Transcript 39 pgs Space Station Freedom History
(unpublished)
Cunningham,
Newton
Hall, R.
Cargill
1968-03-06 Selection of Ranger launch
vehicle, NASA center responsibilities, Ranger
program management
5370 Transcript 7 pgs Lunar Impact
Cunningham, Walter
Sherrod, Robert
1970-11-09 Effect of Schirra's behavior on Apollo 7 flight on
Cunningham's astronaut
career, Cunningham's role in
Skylab program
13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Cunningham, Walter
Sherrod, Robert
1971-03-04 Why was Schirra’s crew pulled off of AS-205,
Schirra's behavior on Apollo
7 flight and its effect on Cunningham's and Eisele's
astronaut careers
13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Daniels, James L., Jr.
Sherrod, Robert
1973-10-29 Maxie Neubert, Lee James 13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Dannenberg,
Konrad
Ray, Thomas 1973-04-11 ABMA transfer to NASA,
Saturn vehicles, Marshall
Space Flight Center (MSFC)
organization, program
management
428 Transcript 51 pgs
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Darden, Christine H.
Fries, Sylvia 1986-11-14 Darden's first career as a teacher due to lack of jobs for
black women, decision to
continue her education in math and physics, hiring at
Langley Research Center
(LaRC) as a computer programmer in 1967,
opposition at LaRC to
women becoming engineers, obtaining a doctorate in
engineering, work on
modeling sonic booms, Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO) at LaRC, black
"human computers" at LaRC, scientists vs engineers,
Darden's role as an engineer,
LaRC center culture, decision not to go into management
3578 Transcript 44 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Davis, 1975-08-20 Design and construction of 435 Transcript 31 pgs Richard Skylab – Multiple Docking
Adapter
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Day, Leroy Mauer, John 1983-10-17 How Day was transferred to work on Shuttle program,
George Mueller as father of
Shuttle program, 1966 British Shuttle concept (similar to
Triamese design), formation
of Space Shuttle Task Force, Shuttle Task Force inputs to
1969 Space Task Group
(STG), defining Shuttle program requirements, Max
Faget and straight wing
orbiter concept, decision to aim for Shuttle design of an
operational vehicle rather
than research vehicle to be subsequently scaled up,
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
opposition to large scaled Shuttle, continuing process of
Shuttle design tradeoffs in
effort to lessen Shuttle development costs, payload
size as driver of Shuttle
design, Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) attempts to influence Shuttle design, negotiations
between NASA and
Department of Defense (DoD) re DoD participation
in Shuttle development and
operations, settling on initial Shuttle design of two stage
fully reusable Shuttle,
studying alternate configurations of Shuttle due
to high development costs of
fully reusable Shuttle, studies of Shuttle versus smaller
glider concept, Mathematica
Shuttle cost studies, 1971 studies of stage and a half
partially reusable Shuttle,
selection of Rockwell as Shuttle prime contractor,
19886 Transcript 91 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
George Mueller and Dale
Myers as advocates of the Shuttle program, delta wing
versus straight wing Shuttle
orbiter concepts, decision to use solid rocket boosters
(SRBs) on the Shuttle, Ham-
N-Egg Society, Shuttle development schedule and
delays, sources of Shuttle
development cost overruns, Shuttle operational costs,
expected longevity of Shuttle
orbiters, NASA program management changes from
Apollo to Shuttle, formation
of lead center concept, relationship between NASA
centers and contractors
during Shuttle development, role of NASA inhouse
engineering teams in Shuttle
development, decision to land Shuttle as a glider,
selection of Shuttle Carrier
Aircraft (SCA), decision to fly the first orbital flight of
the Shuttle with a crew,
design of Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME),
development of Shuttle
Remote Manipulator System (RMS) [Canadarm] by
Canada
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Dean, James Bucchino, Nicole
2008-06-20 Foundation of NASA art program, NASA artists and
MA-9 flight, value of
painting vs photography in
chronicling NASA programs,
Lamar Dodd, NASA art
program in the 1960s, media attention in Gemini, media
attention in Apollo,
interactions between artists and engineers during Apollo,
NASA artists and Apollo 11,
19818 Transcript 45 pgs
Norman Rockwell and
Gemini 3 (GT-3) crew painting, and Bert Ulrich
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Debus, Kurt Sohier, Walter 1964-03-31 Visit of President John F.
Kennedy to Launch Operations Center (LOC) at
Cape Canaveral, September
11, 1962
13202
& 445
Transcript 15 pgs Kennedy
Administration Oral History
Project
Copyrighted
by John F. Kennedy
Library
Debus, Kurt Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Between launches of Skylab 1 and 2
443 & 7589
Transcript 8 pgs
Debus, Kurt 1983-01-20 Explorer 1, possibility of
launching satellite before the Soviet Union
18931 Transcript 13 pgs
DeFrance, Smith J.
Bonney, Walter
1974-09-23 joining NACA in 1922, wind tunnel, supersonic tunnel, P-
63 aircraft
448 Transcript 11 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Dembling, Paul G.
Sherrod, Robert
1969-01-22 NASA Administrator James Webb, selection of the
Houston site for Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC), Phillips Report
13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Dembling,
Paul G.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-03-27 Naming of Kennedy Space
Center (KSC) and Cape Kennedy, Joe Shea, Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire
13286 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Dembling, Paul G.
Sherrod, Robert
1969-06-06 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and investigation
13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Dembling,
Paul G.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-07-24 NASA Administrator James
Webb
13203
& 13286
Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Dembling, Paul G.
Merrifield, Robert
1969-09-25 Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) site selection,
astronaut contracts and
finances, Apollo 1 (AS-204)
fire investigation
18993 Transcript 12 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Dembling,
Paul G.
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-01-26 Congressional decision that
NASA should be an Administration rather than an
Agency, Speaker of the
House John McCormack
13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Dembling, Paul G.
Sherrod, Robert
1973-03-21 Congressional politics and NASA – 1961 Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC) site
survey team
13203 &
13286
Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Dembling,
Paul G.
Emme,
Eugene
1973-08-02 Legislation for creation of
NASA, selection of T. Keith
Glennan as first NASA Administrator
452 &
13458
Transcript 37 pgs Early NASA
History
(unpublished)
Dembling,
Paul G.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-06-12 Dembing's appointment as
Director for Legislative Affairs, Webb dealing with
Bureau of Budget (BoB) as
NASA Administrator, Webb's relationships with
President Kennedy and
President Johnson, Webb's relationship with Congress,
selection of Houston as site
for Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire and investigation,
Phillips Report
7106 Notes 17 pgs Powering Apollo
Dembling,
Paul G.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-06-20 Phillips Report and
Congressional reaction
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Dembling,
Paul G.
Schuman,
David
LaRosa,
Gregory
2002-07-25 Dembling’s role as primary author of the NASA Space Act
452 Transcript 18 pgs
Dembrow,
Daniel
Hunley, John
("Dill")
1995-04-26 1942-1970s, solid propellant
rockets, Delta launch vehicle,
case bonding
11618 Transcript 55 pgs Launch Vehicle
Technology
Dempsey,
James R.
Bonney,
Walter
1971-11-01 Dempsey's role as Deputy
Chief of Staff for Development, General
Saville, NACA
456 &
19511
Transcript 6 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
Der Bing,
William
Grimwood,
James
Ertel, Ivan 1970-01-02 Apollo 11 post-flight world
tour, Michael Collins, Buzz
Aldrin, Neil Armstrong
19523 Transcript 29 pgs Used for
"Before This
Decade Is Out"
De Sanctis,
Carmine
Gruen, Adam 1987-08-13 Evolution of space platform
and Space Shuttle extended duration orbiter (EDO) to
space station functions
18977 Notes 3 pgs Space Station
Freedom History (unpublished)
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DesMarais, David
Dick, Steven J.
1997-05-12 Exobiology program at Ames Research Center (ARC),
exobiologists' view of SETI
program, comparisons of early Earth and Mars by
exobiology, extremophiles as
analogues for alien life, Allan Hills meteorite "Mars rock",
evidence for life on Mars
through meteorites
19505 Transcript 23 pgs SETI History (unpublished)
DeVincenzi,
Donald
Dick, Steven
J.
1997-05-12 Exobiology program at Ames
Research Center (ARC), NASA exobiology program
management, influence of
Viking findings on exobiology program,
astrobiology versus
exobiology, "Mars rock"
19505 Transcript 24 pgs SETI History
(unpublished)
Diehl, Capt. Walter S.
Keller, Michael
1967-09-12 Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory
(LMAL), NACA and Navy
cooperation, aeronautical research
467 Transcript 36 pgs Kitty Hawk to Muroc
Dietlein,
Lawrence
Pitts, John 1980-08-19 Medical aspects of manned
space flight and Life Sciences Division at Johnson
Space Center, Life Sciences
468 Transcript 14 pgs The Human
Factor
Dietz, Reinhold H.
Ezell, Edward 1975-04-04 Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), ASTP Flight
Readiness Review (FRR) at
Baikonur
649 Transcript 35 pgs The Partnership
Disher, John
H.
Ertel, Ivan 1967-01-27 Development of Apollo
program, management, contracts, Lunar Orbit
Rendezvous (LOR)
471 Transcript 30 pgs Chariots for
Apollo
Disher, John
H.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-09-24 George Mueller, lunar orbit
rendezvous decision,
selection of North American
Aviation (NAA) as Apollo spacecraft prime contractor,
selection of MIT as Apollo
guidance and navigation systems contractor
13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Disher, John Sherrod, 1971-04-15 George Mueller as a 13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History H. Robert manager, Skylab planning (unpublished)
Disher, John
H.
Ray, Thomas 1971-04-29 Skylab safety and rescue 471 Transcript 31 pgs
Disher, John Sherrod, 1972-06-14 Abe Silverstein and Lewis 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
H. Robert Research Center (LeRC) (unpublished)
interest in the lunar module
(LM)
Donlan, Charles J.
Merrifield, Robert
1968-07-25 Formation of Space Task Group (STG), Project
Mercury astronaut selection,
astronaut training, Langley Research Center (LaRC)
support of Gemini and
Apollo programs
18993 Transcript 11 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Donlan,
Charles J.
Logsdon, John 1970-08-28 NASA post-Apollo planning,
Apollo Extension System
(AES), creating integrated future manned program
concepts for 1969 Space
Task Group (STG), Space Shuttle as a fallback option in
post-Apollo planning, Space
Shuttle based post-Apollo integrated manned program
planning, reentry in a straight
wing orbiter versus a delta wing orbiter, STG report,
usefulness of manned Mars missions to tie integrated
plan together, reaction to
integrated plan by NASA centers
481 &
19886
Transcript 27 pgs Part of
interview on
Homer Newell
interview by
John Logsdon
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Donlan, Mauer, John 1983-10-19 Donlan's work on high speed 481 & Transcript 66 pgs Space Shuttle Charles J. aeronautics at NACA,
selection of Mercury 7
astronauts, work at Langley Research Center (LaRC) on
reusable spacecraft during the
1960s, origins of Space Shuttle concept as launch
vehicle rather space station
ferry vehicle, Big Gemini (Big G) Shuttle concept,
George Mueller's role in
early Space Shuttle concept planning, creation of NASA
space program plan, with
Shuttle at the core, given to the 1969 Space Task Group
(STG); Shuttle Phase A
studies, 1959-1960 delta wing reentry vehicle studies,
Shuttle Phase B studies of
fully reusable Space Shuttle, technological and safety
concerns leading to selection
of Shuttle partially reusable concept, Mathematica cost
study of Shuttle design concepts, origins of partially
reusable Shuttle concept,
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) glider-type
Shuttle design, arguments
over Shuttle payload bay size, Space Shuttle Main
Engine (SSME), Shuttle
management system with Johnson Space Center (JSC)
as lead center, aspects of
NASA culture that allows Shuttle management system
to work well, difference
between Space Shuttle and Space Transportation System
(STS), former Administrator
James Webb's view on Shuttle management system,
19886 Decision
Shuttle systems engineering,
Shuttle development schedule and changes, Viking
program management
experience Donlan applied when working on Shuttle
program, how James Webb
might have managed the Shuttle program, Shuttle
payloads
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Donlan,
Charles J.
Fries, Sylvia 1985-06-26 Langley Research Center
(LaRC) in the 1930s when Donlan joined, NACA
technical conferences and
reports, R.T. Jones, wind tunnel research, engineers as
managers, foundation of
Space Task Group (STG), selection of Mercury
astronauts, Donlan's return to
LaRC after leaving STG, running the Space Shuttle
program during the 1970s,
Richard Whitcomb's influence on aviation
3577 Transcript 27 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
Donlan,
Charles J.
Chaikin,
Andrew
1997-11-15 Mercury Program
personalities, Mercury astronaut selection, early
space flight as a reality,
Space Task Group (STG), Manned Orbiting Research
Laboratory (MORL), long
range space plans in early 1970s, risk in human
spaceflight, Congressional
and DOD relations with NASA, Space Shuttle design,
Pratt & Whitney Shuttle
orbiter contract, Viking and Mars Pathfinder
18932 Transcript 38 pgs
Donnelly, Paul
Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 and 2 launches 489 & 7589
Transcript 10 pgs
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Doolittle, James
Emme, Eugene
Putnam, William
1969-04-21 Post-WWII aeronautical, rocket, and aircraft engine
research, funding, space
policy, transition from NACA to NASA
493 Transcript 53 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
Dowd, John
F.
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-11-06 LIFE contract with astronauts 13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Dowd, John
F.
Sherrod,
Robert
1973-01-10 Astronauts' contracts with
LIFE magazine, Norman
Mailer
13286 Transcript 9 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Downs,
George S.
Butrica,
Andrew
1994-10-04 Downs' career at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, use of pulsars as clocks, radar
astronomy of Mars, use of
radar in deciding Viking landing sites, use of radar for
planetary geology, planetary
radar astronomy after Viking
18918 Transcript 51 pgs To See the
Unseen
Drake, Hubert M.
Hunley, John ("Dill")
1997-04-16 X-15 experimental aircraft, beginning of Apollo
Program, lunar orbit
rendezvous (LOR), Lunar
Landing Research Vehicle
(LLRV), Dryden Flight
Research Center (DFRC) and the Apollo program
18933 Transcript 28 pgs
Draper,
Charles Stark
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-03-11 Apollo command module
(CM) guidance and navigation computer
13205
& 13286
Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Draper, Charles Stark
Sherrod, Robert
1971-05-17 Development of aircraft guidance equipment in the
late 1940s and early 1950s,
Polaris missile guidance system, studies of potential
spacecraft guidance systems
in the late 1950s, Draper's
offer to NASA to operate
Apollo guidance system as an
astronaut himself, design of Apollo guidance and
navigation system, contract
with NASA for Apollo guidance system, role of
astronaut in guidance system
13205 &
13286
Transcript 15 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
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Drew, Russell 1971-06-11 Factors determining Office of Science and Technology
(OST) recommendations to
President Nixon for approval of Space Shuttle program,
whether the existence of a US
19886 Notes 5 pgs
manned spaceflight program is tied to the approval of
Shuttle, role played by
outside pressure on NASA to redefine Shuttle design from
fully reusable to partially
reusable
Dryden, Hugh L.
Sohier, Walter 1964-03-26 Transition between Eisenhower and Kennedy
administration, Project
Mercury, proposal for manned lunar landing and
decision to go to the moon,
President Kennedy’s proposal for joint US-USSR
manned lunar landing
2992 &
13206
Transcript 31 pgs Kennedy Administration
Oral History
Project
Copyrighted by John F.
Kennedy
Library
Dryden, Hugh L.
Emme, Eugene
Grimwood, James
1965-08-31 Dryden's involvement with formation of US civilian
space program while head of
NACA, NACA and the formation of NASA, Space
Task Group (STG), Explorer
1, Department of Defense (DoD) desire to run US space
program, organizing the
Mercury program, relationship with PSAC
2991 &
13206
Transcript 87 pgs This New Ocean
Duberg, John Bonney, 1973-03-28 NACA/NASA career – Loads 509 & Transcript 12 pgs NACA History
E. Walter Division, Comet, DC-3 19511 (unpublished)
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Duberg, John E.
McCurdy, Howard
1989-05-12 Duberg joining NACA in 1943 to work on aircraft
structure research,
development of being a researcher as a career post-
World War II, uniqueness of
NACA in its focus on applied research with applicability to
aeronautics industry, Langley
Research Center (LaRC) remaining aeronautical
research focused after
transition to NASA, role of Space Task Group (STG)
within LaRC and transfer of
STG to Houston to form Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC), origins of LaRC
project managers during 1950s and 1960s, transition
from LaRC being purely in-
house researchers to mix of in-house research and
research management, LaRC
attitude towards risk more conservative than operational
centers, LaRC research contributions to Apollo
program, LaRC move back
into aeronautical research with end of Apollo and
tightening budgets, large
reason for lack of Congressional suport of
NASA is aeronautical
industry lobbying for defense programs as that makes more
money than pure research,
argument for Space Shuttle as useful as initial spacecraft
to orbit and then switch to
true interplanetary craft rather than current use of
Shuttle, LaRC recruitment of
college graduates, James Webb
18720 Transcript 45 pgs Inside NASA
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Duff, John Guilmartin, Joseph
1984-07-12 Putting together the final Rockwell International
proposal for the Space
Shuttle, Phase A and Phase B study proposals, creating cost
estimates for development
programs, why space and defense programs overrun
costs projected by
government agencies, life support and environmental
systems, Rockwell
International winning Shuttle contract on basis of
19886 Transcript 22 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
management section of
proposal
Duke, Charles Sherrod, 1972-02-22 Duke's birth order, geology 13208 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
M., Jr. Robert training & (unpublished)
13286
Duke, Charles
M., Jr.
Ward,
Douglas
1999-03-12 Astronaut selection, Duke
and Apollo 11 CAPCOM activities, Apollo 16 flight,
effect of Duke's measles on
Apollo 13, involvement with safe return of Apollo 13 crew
19524 Transcript 60 pgs Before This
Decade Is Out
Duke,
Michael
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-07-27 Geology of Apollo lunar
landing sites, difference
between lunar mare and highlands, formation of Mare
Imbrium, study and handling of Apollo lunar samples
13286 Transcript 11 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Dyce, Rolf B. Butrica, Andrew
1994-11-22 Auroras, William Gordon, Thomas Gold, work at
Arecibo Observatory, living
in Puerto Rico, lunar radar astronomy, Venus radar
astronomy, Viking
18918 Transcript 40 pgs To See the Unseen
Eaker, Lt. Bonney, 1974-02-11 Eaker's career with Army, 532 & Transcript 17 pgs NACA History
Gen. Ira C. Walter Air Force, NACA, 1918 to 19511 (unpublished)
1944
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Earls, Julian Wright, Rebecca
2006-02-22 Earls' career with NASA, racial issues, Columbia (STS-
107) accident, NASA’s
nuclear program
19827 Transcript 129 pgs NASA Administrators
Oral History
Project
Easley, Annie
J.
Johnson,
Sandra
2001-08-21 Easley's career at Lewis
Research Center (LeRC)
3636 Transcript 55 pgs Herstory Project
Edmonds,
Eugene G.
Merrifield,
Robert
1967-12-19 Edmonds' work as
photographer for Space Task
Group (STG), photography of astronaut recoveries,
television of astronaut
recoveries
18993 Transcript 22 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Eggleston,
John M.
Merrifield,
Robert
1968-03-14 Project Mercury reentry
simulations, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package
(ALSEP), Lunar Receiving
Laboratory (LRL)
18993 Transcript 16 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Ehl, James 1973-06-12 Development of SEVA sail
for Skylab at Huntsville
Operations Support Center before Skylab 2 launch
561 &
7589
Transcript 13 pgs
Ehricke,
Krafft
Sloop, John 1974-04-26 Liquid hydrogen engines,
nuclear propulsion research, Operation Paperclip, Dyna-
Soar project, Atlas launch
vehicle, lunar colonies
10976 Transcript 90 pgs Liquid Hydrogen
as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959
Ehrlichman,
John
Logsdon, John 1983-05-06 Nixon's desire for US to be at
the leading edge of applied
technology, factors influencing Nixon's decision
to go with NASA's larger
payload bay Shuttle rather than Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) small
Shuttle, NASA courting of Nixon administration, Nixon
view of space program from
perspective of potential political capital from
decisions made, ability of
NASA leadership to accept presidential directives rather
than make end runs to gain
support for programs,
7915
&
19886
Transcript 37 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
conflict between OMB and
Nixon presidential staff over control of budget, Nixon's
desire for the US to have
heroes, Ehrlichman's personal interest in the space program,
Nixon's connections with
Rockwell International, increasing employment as a
motivator for Nixon to
approve Space Shuttle
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Eisenhower, Green, Emme, 1966-11-01 International Geophysical 12371 Notes 16 pgs Vanguard: A Dwight D. Constance Eugene Year (IGY), decision to History
launch US satellite, founding
of NASA
Elachi, Krige, John 2009-06-10 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 11183 Transcript 42 pgs NASA in the
Charles (JPL) cooperation with World Europe and European Space
Agency (ESA)
Eldred, William J.
Fries, Sylvia 1987-03-11 Eldred selected for Naval Aviation Cadet (NAVCAT)
program, career as naval
aviator, joining the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1963,
constructing Kennedy Space
Center (KSC), transfer to NASA KSC, KSC
modifications for Skylab and
Space Shuttle, KSC facilities contract management,
changes at KSC since the
1960s
3578 Transcript 17 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
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Elliot, David Logsdon, John National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC) on
sidelines of Space Shuttle
decision, Nixon administration decision on
political merits of Shuttle
rather than technical, Don Rice of Office of
Management and Budget
(OMB) attempts to scale down Shuttle on budget
grounds, influence of Flax
Committee, Department of Defense (DoD) reluctance to
put money into Shuttle
program, European space tug, Spacelab
19886 Transcript 15 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Elms, James Sherrod, 1969-12-04 Robert Gilruth, Joe Shea, 13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History C. Robert George Mueller (unpublished)
Elms, James
C.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-05-17 James "Dutch" Kindelberger
as head of North American Aviation (NAA),
Kindelberger's effect on
NAA winning Apollo spacecraft contract
13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Elms, James C.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-11-30 Robert Piland's repeated switches between manager
and deputy manager of
Apollo Spacecraft Program Office (ASPO)
13220 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Elms, James Sherrod, 1973-10-24 Joe Shea 13236 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
C. Robert & (unpublished) 13286
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Elms, James C.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-12-01 Webb and Brainerd Holmes, Apollo program
management, Joe Shea,
management of the Electronics Research Center
(ERC), transfer of ERC to
Department of Transportation (DOT), professionalism at
NASA during Apollo
program, Webb's advice on managing organizations
7106 Notes 8 pgs Powering Apollo
Elsey, George Lambright, W. Henry
1991-10-17 Webb as Director of Bureau of Budget (BoB) during
Truman administration,
Webb as deputy for management at State
Department, role of BoB as
presidential staff
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
Elvarum,
Gerald W., Jr.
Brooks,
Courtney
1970-07-21 Designing throttlable liquid
propulsion rocket engine, development of Apollo lunar
module (LM) descent engine,
impact of Apollo on space program
566 Transcript 56 pgs Chariots for
Apollo
Emme, Eugene
Sherrod, Robert
1969-04-01 Apollo 1 fire (AS-204), MA-9 flight, President
Eisenhower's views on space
program, cancellation of MA-10 flight
13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Emme,
Eugene
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-11-03 Frank Borman, Thomas O.
Paine, Barry Goldwater
13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Emme, Eugene
Sherrod, Robert
1970-02-02 Administrator Webb and Deputy Administrator
Seamans’ falling out, Hugh Dryden, George Mueller
13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Emme,
Eugene
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-02-11 Departure of Brainerd
Holmes, hiring of George Mueller
13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Emme,
Eugene
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-02-16 X-15, Apollo 1 (AS-204)
fire, Soviet N-1 launch vehicle known as "Webb's
giant"
13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
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Emme, Sherrod, 1971-06-17 Pope Pius’s prayer for Apollo 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History Telephone Eugene Robert 11 astronauts (unpublished) interview
English,
Robert
Dawson,
Virginia P.
1986-07-11 Jet propulsion research at
Lewis Research Center (LeRC) 1942-1980s, turbines
and jet engines, nuclear
reactors in space – Brayton and Rankine cycles, nuclear
propulsion, Office of
Aeronautics and Space Technology (OAST) program
577 Transcript 29 pgs Engines and
Innovation
Eshleman, Von R.
Butrica, Andrew
1994-05-09 Solar radar astronomy, bistatic radar astronomy,
organization of radar
astronomy as a discipline, radar experiment on Cassini,
Voyager radar experiment
and its discoveries, discovery of Mercury rotation rate
18918 Transcript 76 pgs To See the Unseen
Estess, Roy Dethloff,
Henry
1991-06-18 Estess' Air Force career,
Mississippi Test Facility (MTF), National Space
Technology Laboratories
(NSTL), name change of NSTL to Stennis Space
Center (SSC), role as director
of SSC
18934 Transcript 34 pgs Stennis Space
Center History Project
Estess, Roy Herring, Mack Webb, Myron 1995-07-07 Stennis Space Center (SSC), Space Shuttle Main Engine
(SSME), competition with
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Zero Base Study
and National Propulsion
Testing Alliance, Estess' role as director of SSC
18935 Transcript 30 pgs Stennis Space Center History
Project
Evans, Janet
M.
Ross-Nazzal,
Jennifer
2003-08-07 On moving to and living in
Houston, being the wife of military aviator and astronaut
Ron E. Evans, Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire, Apollo 13, the NASA community in
Houston, and social activities
of astronauts and their wives
596 Transcript 30 pgs JSC Oral History
Project
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Evans, John V.
Butrica, Andrew
1993-09-09 Lunar radar astronomy at Jodrell Bank, meteor radar
astronomy, Venus radar
astronomy, move to Lincoln Laboratory, Millstone
Observatory, Evans' decision
to leave radar astronomy
18918 Transcript 54 pgs To See the Unseen
Evans,
Llewellyn J.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-10-05 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire 13286
&
13354
Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Evvard, John S.
Dawson, Virginia P.
1987-06-14 Lewis Research Center (LeRC) study group on
Puckett’s Theory of Supersonic Aerodynamics, “From Mach 4 to Infinity” course, electron
bombardment
599 Transcript 25 pgs Engines and Innovation
Faber, Stanley Merrifield,
Robert
1967-12-08 Project Mercury flight
simulations, astronaut training, Gemini mission
simulators and simulations,
Apollo simulators and
mission simulations
18993 Transcript 40 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Fabian, John M.
1983-05-00 STS-7 mission 601 Transcript 9 pgs
Faget,
Maxime A.
Merrifield,
Robert
1967-10-16 Mercury program, Space
Task Group (STG), NASA organization, Gemini
program, Apollo program,
Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), White Sands Test
Facility (WSTF), spacecraft
design, Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and MSC
overlap in responsibilities
19525 Transcript 26 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Used for
"Before this Decade is
Out"
Faget,
Maxime A.
Ertel, Ivan 1969-12-15 Mercury, Saturn, Gemini,
Apollo programs
603 &
7589
Transcript 17 pgs
Faget,
Maxime A.
Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 accident, planning
and rescue, deployment of Standup Extravehicular
Activity (SEVA) sail
603 &
7589
Transcript 28 pgs
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Faget, Hallion, 1979-03-22 X-15 program, X-20 Dyna- 603 Transcript 16 pgs Maxime A. Richard soar program, influences on
Space Shuttle design
Faget,
Maxime A.
McCurdy,
Howard
1987-11-09 Joining NACA Langley
Research Center (LaRC) after World War II, Pilotless
Aircraft Research Division
(PARD), rocket research at
LaRC before formation of
NASA, selecting Atlas
launch vehicle before selection of McDonnell to
build Mercury spacecraft,
flying Mercury unmanned test flights to try out ideas
rather than prove a design,
test philosophy changes when have man onboard and
emphasis on ground tests so
flight test works first time, philosophy of reliability
required for complex systems
like Space Shuttle and Space Station, trades of risk versus
reliability to achieve
performance on Shuttle and station, Challenger (STS-
51L) accident as result of
human frailty rather than technology failure, effects of
budget cuts and fixed
overhead on Shuttle testing and development, public
interest in Shuttle era space
program, Robert Gilruth
18720 Transcript 48 pgs Inside NASA
Faget, Gruen, Adam 1987-11-11 Space Station Freedom, 603 Transcript 60 pgs
Maxime A. Shuttle Infrared Radar (SIR), and space commercialization
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Faget, Maxime A.
Slade, James 1997-06-18 NACA Pilotless Aircraft Research Division (PARD),
spacecraft design, Mercury
program, influence of X-15 on spacecraft design, Atlas
launch vehicle and Mercury
program, escape rockets, MR-1 flight, Soyuz T-10-1
flight, Mercury 7 astronauts,
Liberty Bell 7 (MR-4) flight, Gemini program, Space Task
Group (STG), Gemini
spacecraft, Apollo program, lunar orbit rendezvous
19525 Transcript 94 pgs Before This Decade Is Out
(LOR), lunar module (LM),
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and Apollo command module
(CM) redesign, Space Shuttle
design, Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters (SRBs),
Challenger (STS-51L)
accident
Farley, Clare Sherrod,
Robert
1972-02-10 Apollo 8 mission selection
decision
13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Farley, Philip J.
O'Connor, Joseph
1966-11-01 Kennedy's delegation of space program issues to Vice
President Lyndon Johnson,
communications satellite policy, Communications
Satellite Act of 1962,
Congressional relations, origins of Multi-Lateral
Force (MLF) for nuclear
missiles
13304 Transcript 18 pgs Kennedy Administration
Oral History
Project
Copyrighted by John F.
Kennedy
Library
Farmer, Jack Dick, Steven 1997-11-19 Exobiology at Ames 19505 Transcript 9 pgs SETI History
D. J. Research Center (ARC), (unpublished)
extremophiles, life on Mars
in ancient times
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Farquhar, Robert
Fries, Sylvia 1986-06-03 Origin of Farquhar's interest in aviation, service in Korean
War, studying aeronautical
engineering around the time of Sputnik, internship at
RAND, Farquhar's unusual
education, work at Electronics Research Center
(ERC), thesis on libration
point satellites, transfer from ERC to Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC), ISEE-
3 probe, scientists versus engineers, increase in NASA
bureaucracy
3577 Transcript 31 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Feld, David Brooks, 1971-12-02 Apollo lunar module (LM) 631 Transcript 37 pgs Chariots for Courtney ascent engine project at Bell Apollo
Aerosystems
Fieldler,
George A.
McMahon, A.
Michal
1985-09-24 Beginnings of Fieldler's
engineering education at Baltimore Polytechnic High
School, work at Martin
Company as draftsman, switch to configuration
management for Titan 3
launch vehicle, configuration design for Mercury
spacecraft contract
competition, configuration management on Martin
aircraft designs, hiring at
Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in 1964 as resident
NASA test director for
3577 Transcript 21 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
Apollo spacecraft at North American Aviation, switch to
MSC quality assurance in
1970, Fieldler's view of working at NASA versus
industry, organization of
quality assurance program at Johnson Space Center (JSC),
changes in discipline of
engineering since 1940s
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Finger, Emme, Putnam, 1969-04-16 NASA/Atomic Energy 642 Transcript 37 pgs Harold Eugene William Commission (AEC) nuclear
propulsion program, NASA
reorganization, 1967-1968
Finger, Lambright, W. 1988-12-09 Communication among 7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Harold Henry NASA senior management before the Apollo 1 (AS-204)
fire
Finger, Harold
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-06-13 Webb's influence on relationship between NASA
and Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC) during joint space nuclear
propulsion program,
formation of NASA, Office of Organization and
Management, Finger's role in
NASA management and organization changes, Apollo
1 (AS-204) fire investigation,
Program Approval Documents (PADs), Webb as
planner
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
Finn, Terence Fries, Sylvia 1985-06-12 Space station planning inside 659 Transcript 27 pgs Space Station T. and outside NASA, Space Freedom History
Station Task Force (SSTF) (unpublished)
Finn, Terence Fries, Sylvia 1985-07-10 Space Station Task Force 659 Transcript 48 pgs Space Station
T. (SSTF), NASA Space Station Freedom History Freedom (SSF) program (unpublished)
Fleming,
David M.
Mulcahy,
Robert
2001-04-05 Fleming's role as
procurement officer for ICBM contracts under
General Bernard Schriever,
Simon Ramo, formation of TRW, formation of USAF
Western Development
Division (WDD)
19410 Transcript 15 pgs USAF SMC Oral
History Project
In Captain
David Fleming A.F.
folder
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Fleming, Green, Lomask, 1967-06-19 Project Vanguard telemetry 2723 Notes 2 pgs Vanguard: A James J. Constance Milton system, Minitrack tracking History
system
Fletcher, James C.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-12-27 Assignment of Harrison Schmitt to Apollo 17 crew,
biomedical research and
astronauts' health, crew selection for Apollo Soyuz
Test Project (ASTP), ASTP
negotiations, Apollo 17 orange lunar soil sample,
Apollo 15, 16, and 17
missions, Apollo 15 stamp scandal, Space Shuttle
decision and contract
selection for the orbiter, NASA budget cuts
4233, 13306,
13286,
19886
Transcript 35 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
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Fletcher, Logsdon, John 1977-09-21 Review of 1969 Space Task 7915 Transcript 44 pgs Space Shuttle James C. Group (STG) report by
President's Science Advisory
Committee (PSAC), Fletcher's review of Shuttle
options after becoming
NASA Administrator, preference for two stage fully
reusable Space Shuttle,
change to partially reusable Shuttle design due to budget
constraints, Congressional
pressure to cancel Apollo 16 and 17 flights, alternative
Shuttle configuration studies,
pressure from Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), Flax Committee
review of Shuttle design, Don Rice, approval for Shuttle as
a FY1973 new start, meeting
between Fletcher and President Nixon and
announcement of Space
Shuttle program, NASA budget cuts during 1970s,
Fletcher's decision to cut Shuttle program in proportion
with science programs, fully
reusuable Shuttle technologically possible but
costs untenable, manned
space flight important for US presidents politically,
political feasibility of a space
station
&
19886
Decision
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Fletcher, James C.
Launius, Roger
1991-09-19 How Fletcher was recruited as NASA Administrator in
1971, Fletcher's negotiations
with the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), Fletcher's role in
President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) review of
1969 Space Task Group
(STG) report, NASA internal view that Shuttle was a step
to space station and manned
Mars missions rather than an end in itself, continued high
cost of Shuttle due to ground
support and maintenance not originally included in Shuttle
budget, negotiations with
George Schultz and Caspar Weinberger over NASA
budget, fitting Shuttle design
to NASA funding, Don Rice and opposition to NASA
Shuttle design, OMB
requirements for cost effectiveness analysis and
Fletcher's opposition to use of concept on an untried
program, reason for Johnson
Space Center (JSC) as lead center for Shuttle
16889 &
19886
Transcript 27 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
development, changes to
NASA management structure for Shuttle program,
obtaining approval for
Voyager probes
Flickinger, Gen. Donald
Secondari, John
Birth of US space program, transfer of ABMA to NASA,
development of manned and
unmanned spacecraft to go to moon, estimated cost of
Mercury Project, ICBM
1971 Transcript 17 pgs Missing page 1
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Flickinger, Gen. Donald
Pitts, John 1979-10-18 US Air Force organization of aerospace medicine, USAF
manned spaceflight program,
cooperation between USAF and NASA in aerospace
medicine
704 Transcript 12 pgs The Human Factor
Foll, R.R. Guilmartin, 1984-10-01 Development of Space 19886 Transcript 7 pgs Space Shuttle
("Dick") Joseph Shuttle External Tank (ET) Decision
Forest, Casey Ertel, Ivan 1971-06-09 Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV), Lunar
Landing Training Vehicle
(LLTV), astronaut training
19526 Transcript 11 pgs Used for "Before this
Decade is
Out"
Foulois,
Benjamin
Levine,
Arthur
1960-08-23 Cooperation between US
Army Air Corps and NACA
714 Transcript 23 pgs
Francois, Stephen M.
Wright, Rebecca
2008-07-22 Kennedy Space Center (KSC) engineer training
program, Titan Centaur
launch vehicle, Expendable Launch Vehicles (ELV)
program, effect of Shuttle on
ELV program, transition
from government to
commercial launch vehicles,
Shuttle Centaur, effect of Challenger accident on ELV
program, Shuttle payload
integration, Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF),
International Space Station
(ISS) payload integration, ELV launch scheduling
19859 Transcript 58 pgs NASA Administrators
Oral History
Project
Frank, M.P.
("Pete")
1997-08-00 Gemini Program, trajectory
analysis, Apollo lunar mission trajectories, reentry,
role as flight director during
Apollo program, Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP),
role as chief of Flight Control
Division
18936 Transcript 29 pgs
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Frankle, Edward A.
Johnson, Sandra
1991-11-05 Role as Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Chief
Counsel, role as NASA
General Counsel, legal aspects of Challenger (STS-
51L) accident, space
commercialization, Shuttle/Mir, ISS, Tracking
and Data Relay Satellites
(TDRS), intellectual property, outer space law
18937 Transcript 81 pgs NASA Administrators
Oral History
Project
Freitag,
Robert F.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-06-11 Party at the White House
when the Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire occurred, cancellation of
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
(MOL)
13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Freitag, Sherrod, 1969-11-04 President Nixon, Frank 13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
Robert F. Robert Borman, George Mueller, (unpublished)
Congressman Olin "Tiger"
Teague
Freitag, Sherrod, 1970-02-18 Decision for Apollo 8 flight 13266 Notes 1 pg Apollo History Telephone Robert F. Robert to the moon & (unpublished) interview
13286
Freitag, Robert F.
1970-05-19 Apollo engineering overview 10989 Transcript 16 pgs
Freitag, Sherrod, 1971-03-17 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, 13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
Robert F. Robert Phillips Report, Joe Shea, (unpublished)
selection of Apollo 13 crew
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Freitag, Robert F.
Fries, Sylvia 1985-05-16 Freitag on getting engineering degree to
become US Navy pilot,
assignment to Navy Bureau of Aeronautics for analysis of
aircraft design, role in
Operation Paperclip, post World War II Navy guided
missile research, learning of
USSR missile research from Soviet defector, Freitag's
involvement in Polaris
missile program, Wernher von Braun, formation of
NASA, Freitag joining
NASA, NASA role in Hurricane Camille recovery
3577 Transcript 57 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Freitag, Fries, Sylvia 1985-07-12 V-2 rockets, missiles, Cape 10989 Transcript 20 pgs NASA Engineers
Robert F. Canaveral, ABMA and in the Age of Hurricane Camille disaster Apollo
relief
Freitag, Gruen, Adam 1989-03-22 Space station program, 10989 Transcript 74 pgs Space Station Robert F. design and support from Freedom History
Carter and Reagan (unpublished)
administrations
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Freitag, Robert F.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-06-27 Webb as personnel manager, Webb and Brainerd Holmes,
Webb and George Mueller,
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire investigation, Office of
Manned Space Flight
(OMSF) relationship with Congress re Apollo program,
Mueller's desire for post-
Apollo planning, Apollo Executives Committee,
Apollo contract management,
NASA international partners' relationships with industry,
NASA international
7106 Notes 16 pgs Powering Apollo
programs in post-Apollo era, evolution of European Space
Agency (ESA)
Friedmann, Dick, Steven 1997-11-18 Friedmann's work on algae, 19505 Transcript 21 pgs SETI History Imre J. cyanobacteria, extremophiles, (unpublished)
work on meteorites, Antarctic
extremophiles
Fries, Sylvia Buck, Cindy 1988-05-23 Position as NASA chief
historian, neglected stories, current issues to become key
historical issues
725 Transcript 26 pgs
Frosch, Robert A.
1977-10-18 NASA research into more fuel efficient aviation,
research into computer-
assisted aircraft avionics, remote sensing, Space
Shuttle, construction in
space, technology utilization, Large Space Telescope (LST)
later renamed the Hubble
Space Telescope (HST)
4195 &
19886
Transcript 13 pgs 1977 Year End Review
Frosch,
Robert A.
1980-10-07 1980 accomplishments in
space sciences, Space Shuttle program, Landsat satellites,
tracking, Tilt-Rotor Aircraft,
Aircraft Energy Efficiency Program, and technology
spinoffs
4195
& 19886
Transcript 9 pgs
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Frosch, Robert A.
DeVorkin, David
1981-07-10 Biographical data, career as a physicist, career with the
Navy and the Advanced
Research Projects Agency (ARPA), role as NASA
administrator, certifying the
Space Shuttle for flight, Space Shuttle design,
Congressional relations,
NASA budget, planetary programs, NASA
organization, relationships
with NASA centers, space policy
18938 &
18999
Transcript 255 pgs
Frutkin, Arnold W.
Logsdon, John 1970-07-30 1968 post-Apollo planning exercise at NASA, Frutkin's
belief that he was a poor
choice to head exercise due
to his lack of experience with
NASA flight programs, lack
of concrete goals from planning exercise, failure to
consider lower future budgets
as part of planning, impact of NASA Administrator
Thomas O. Paine on
increasing NASA's international cooperation
programs, possible European
involvement in NASA future
728 & 19886
Transcript 22 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
programs
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Frutkin, Arnold W.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-07-11 Gemini IV astronauts post-flight trip, President
Kennedy's 1963 proposal of
international cooperation in space with Soviet Union,
effect of proposal on NASA,
reports of cosmonaut fatalities, NASA offers of
space flight experiment
opportunities to Soviets, political support from
Presidents and Congress for
cooperation with USSR, Apollo Soyuz Test Project
(ASTP) negotiations, Soyuz
11 accident
13286 Notes 11 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Frutkin, Emme, Roland, Alex 1974-04-04 Development of NASA 13458 Transcript 45 pgs Early NASA
Arnold W. Eugene international programs History (unpublished)
Frutkin, Ezell, Edward 1975-05-05 Apollo Soyuz Test Project 728 Transcript 28 pgs The Partnership Arnold W. (ASTP), international
cooperation, public affairs for
ASTP
Frutkin,
Arnold W.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-07-19 Frutkin's views on Webb as a
manager, Webb's failure to plan for post-Apollo NASA
programs, Webb as personnel
manager, Webb's early days at NASA, George Mueller,
Office of the Administrator,
State Department view of Webb as NASA
Administrator, Webb's desire
for acceptance
internationally, Webb's
resignation
7106 Notes 12 pgs Powering Apollo
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Frutkin, Arnold W.
Garber, Stephen
2001-10-04 Use of rivalry between countries to obtain
cooperation for NASA
programs, Egyptian proposal for politically-motivated
sounding rocket launches,
Satellite Instructional Television Experiment
(SITE) with India,
cooperation with China
728 Notes 3 pgs
Frutkin,
Arnold W.
Wright,
Rebecca
2002-01-11 International Geophysical
Year (IGY), role as director of Office of International
Programs, international
cooperation, relationship with the State Department,
Satellite Instructional
Television Experiment (SITE), tracking stations,
NASA and the United
Nations (UN), US – Soviet cooperation, Apollo Soyuz
Test Project (ASTP)
18939 Transcript 57 pgs NASA
Administrators Oral History
Project
Frutkin, Arnold W.
Wright, Rebecca
2002-03-08 International negotiations, Spacelab, launch technology,
Japan, France, INTELSAT,
India, China, Canada, ARM, Soviet Union, relationship
with administrators
18939 Transcript 30 pgs NASA Administrators
Oral History
Project
Frutkin,
Arnold W.
Krige, John Long, Angel 2007-08-19 International cooperation 11183 Transcript 72 pgs NASA in the
World
Fulton, James G.
Sherrod, Robert
1969-09-15 George Mueller, James Webb confrontation with Fulton,
House of Representatives
committee on space influence on space program
13286 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Fulton, James
G.
Logsdon, John 1970-08-13 Restricting the manufacturing
of Saturn launch vehicles, lunar geology, plans for
advanced Apollo lunar
exploration from Apollo 14 onward, Nuclear Engine for
Rocket Vehicle Application
(NERVA) program
19886 Transcript 12 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
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Funk, Maj. Gen.
Benjamin I.
1966-08-00 USAF program management system for ICBM program,
Air Research and
Development Command (ARDC), USAF use of non-
profit organizations in
program management, USAF and NASA roles in space
19410 Transcript 15 pgs USAF Oral History Project
In Major General Ben I.
Funk A.F.
folder
Fuqua,
Donald
Benson, Lloyd 1975-07-10 Impact of Apollo 1 (AS-204)
fire on NASA funding, Congressional role in
technical aspects of Apollo
Applications Program (AAP), most attractive feature of
Skylab from Congressional
standpoint, scientific value of Skylab, possibility of flying a
second Skylab space station,
funding a second Skylab versus Shuttle program, and
early ambitions of Apollo
program
737 Transcript 7 pgs
Galloway,
Eilene
Emme,
Eugene
Roland, Alex 1974-04-09 History of the National
Aeronautics and Space Act of
1958, formation of NASA
13458 Transcript 89 pgs Early NASA
History
(unpublished)
Galloway,
Eilene
Hunley, John
("Dill")
1993-02-12 Galloway's career as
consultant to Senate Committee On Aeronautical
and Space Sciences,
Establishment of NASA and its mission, UN Committee
On Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space
11689 Transcript 76 pgs
Galloway, Eilene
Wright, Rebecca
2000-08-07 Response to Sputnik 1 by US Congress, National
Aeronautics and Space Act of
1958, space law, space policy
3636 Transcript 55 pgs Herstory Project
Galloway,
Eilene
Johnson,
Sandra
Wright,
Rebecca
2000-09-14 Galloway's work in the
Library of Congress Legislative Reference
Service, formation of NASA
3636 Transcript 38 pgs Herstory Project
Garman, John Gruen, Adam 1988-05-09 Flight software for manned spacecraft
6687 Transcript 45 pgs
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Garn, E. Jake 2000-05-18 White House – Congressional relations, Endeavour orbiter,
federal budget, Space Station
Freedom (SSF), Challenger (STS-51L) accident, Space
Exploration Initiative (SEI),
United Space Alliance (USA), NASA – Congressional relations,
International Space Station (ISS)
18940 Transcript 43 pgs
Garrick,
Edward I.
Bonney,
Walter
1973-03-27 Career with NACA,
aerodynamic studies at Langley Research Center
(LaRC)
758 &
19511
Transcript 16 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
Gates, Thomas S., Jr.
Mason, John, Jr.
1972-10-03 Polaris missile 19418 Transcript 39 pgs In Thomas S. Gates, Jr.
folder
Gehrig, James
J.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-04-24 Senator Walter Mondale’s
anger directed toward NASA after Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
Phillips Report,
Congressional hearings on Apollo 1 fire
13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Gehrig, James J.
Sherrod, Robert
1973-01-09 Senate Space Committee hearing on Apollo 15 crew
commemorative covers sale,
procedures for carrying items in astronaut personal
preference kits (PPKs), profit
by other astronaut crews
13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Gerathewohl,
Sigfried
Pitts, John 1979-07-06 1960-1965 Office of Life
Science Programs, space medicine, biomedical
research
769 Transcript 47 pgs The Human
Factor
Gibb, John Hennings,
Glen
Fenn, David Sloop, John 1974-05-28 Liquid hydrogen propulsion
research at Lewis Research
Center (LeRC)
6687 Transcript 80 pgs Liquid Hydrogen
as a Propulsion
Fuel, 1945-1959
Gibson,
Edward
1975-08-25 Astronaut training 774 Transcript 52 pgs
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Gibson, Ralph Sherrod, Robert
1972-08-04 Hearing on the Apollo 15 astronauts stamps
controversy
13286 Notes 1 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Gibson, Roy Krige, John 2007-06-15 Gibson's career as Director General of the European
Space Agency (ESA)
11183 Transcript 49 pgs NASA in the World
Gilpatric,
Roswell
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-12-17 NASA and Department of
Defense (DoD) relationship,
Robert McNamara,
relationship between Webb and McNamara
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
Gilruth Robert R.
Sohier, Walter 1964-04-01 Mercury Project, transition from Eisenhower
administration to Kennedy
administration
787 & 13309
Transcript 13 pgs Kennedy Administration
Oral History
Project
Copyrighted by John F.
Kennedy
Library
Gilruth Robert R.
Keller, Michael
1967-06-26 Gilruth's career with NACA, Flight Research Engineering,
X-1 supersonic aircraft,
Wallops Island Pilotless Aircraft Research Division
(PARD)
785 Transcript 24 pgs Kitty Hawk to Muroc
Gilruth Robert R.
Neff, Don 1969-02-07 Space Task Group (STG), lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)
and lunar module (LM)
786, 13211,
13322
Transcript 6 pgs Copyrighted by Time, Inc.
Gilruth Robert R.
Logsdon, John 1969-08-26 Rendezvous experiments, Saturn launch vehicles, lunar
orbit rendezvous (LOR)
mode, trip to Antarctica
13286 &
13309
Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Gilruth Robert R.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-03-12 MIT Instrumentation Lab, Joe Shea, Apollo astronaut
crew selection, selection of
North American Aviation as
Apollo spacecraft prime
contractor, Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire
13286 Notes 5 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
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Gilruth Robert R.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-11-14 Educational background of NASA engineers, decision to
send Apollo 8 flight to the
moon, George Mueller, value of Gemini program for
Apollo, Brian O'Leary
astronaut selection, Space Task Group move from
Langley Research Center
(LaRC) to Houston, meeting with Vice President Johnson
and astronauts concerning
offers of free items and business opportunities, fame
of astronauts, Apollo 15
stamps controversy, LIFE contracts for astronaut
stories, Apollo Soyuz Test
Project (ASTP) negotiations, switch of Apollo 13 and
Apollo 14 crews, George
Mueller, Gilruth's response to Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
NASA public affairs
handling of Apollo 1 fire announcement, lunar orbit
rendezvous (LOR) decision, Joe Shea as a manager
13286 &
13309
Transcript 48 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Used for "Before this
Decade is
Out"
Gilruth Robert R.
Emme, Eugene
Grimwood, James
1973-08-24 Transition from NACA to NASA, Space Task Group
(STG), move of STG to
Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), early human space
flight program
785 Transcript 17 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
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Gilruth Robert R.
Sherrod, Robert
Rowsome 1974-05-14 MR-2 Ham the chimp flight, NACA human space flight
studies at Langley Research
Center (LaRC), astronaut selection criteria, early
Apollo spacecraft studies,
Gemini program heritage in Apollo, lunar orbit
rendezvous (LOR) decision,
decision to use Saturn V instead of Nova, lunar
module (LM) docking in
earth orbit, use of hydrogen in Saturn launch vehicle
upper stages, NASA
spacecraft appearance vs science fiction, Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC) site
selection, development of mission control concept
13309 Transcript 30 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Gilruth Robert R.
Burke, James 1979-05-16 Decision to go to the moon, Space Task Group (STG),
Project Mercury, Gemini and
Apollo programs, Apollo 8 and 11 flights
791 Transcript 24 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
Gilruth Robert
R.
McCurdy,
Howard
1987-11-11 Gilruth starting his career at
Langley Research Center (LaRC) as a flight testing
engineer, working his way
through an aeronautical engineering degree during the
Great Depression, forming
the Space Task Group (STG), manned space flight
reliability testing and
acceptance of risk during Mercury, Gemini, and
Apollo; Gilruth's view that
NASA had not lost in-house technical capability after
Apollo due to fact that NASA
not building manned aircraft or spacecraft, "human
computers", Gilruth's belief
that Apollo was too risky to
18720 Transcript 37 pgs Inside NASA
continue safely, not needing
to justify cost-effectiveness of manned space flight before
Shuttle program, public
opinion of space program, difficulties with choosing
good managers for technical
programs
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Glenn, John
H., Jr.
Sohier, Walter 1964-06-12 Glenn's meetings with
President Kennedy, Kennedy's evolving views on
the Mercury Project
816 &
13310
Transcript 26 pgs Kennedy
Administration Oral History
Project
Copyrighted
by John F. Kennedy
Library
Glenn, John H., Jr.
Merrifield, Robert
1968-03-15 Project Mercury astronaut selection and astronaut
training, astronauts and
NASA public affairs
803 Transcript 18 pgs Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC) History
(unpublished)
Glenn, John
H., Jr.
Sherrod,
Robert
1968-10-18 Glenn's forays in politics,
Bobby Kennedy’s death, and Jackie Kennedy’s second marriage
13286
& 13310
Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Glenn, John H., Jr.
Scarborough, Sherry
Merrifield, Robert
1997-08-25 Glenn's career as military pilot, astronaut selection for
Mercury program, Mercury
astronaut training, why Glenn did not fly again on Mercury
or Gemini, purpose of flying
on STS-95
16296 Transcript 96 pgs JSC Oral History Project
Also includes Mercury MA-
6 (Friendship
7) pilot's debriefing
Glennan, T.
Keith
Rosholt,
Robert
1964-01-18 Early organization of NASA,
management and project organization, integration of
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL) and ABMA, NASA -DoD relations, NASA -
Congress relations
2969 Notes 7 pgs Administrative
History of NASA
Glennan, T. Keith
Emme, Eugene
1965-04-06 USIA responsibility for all international publicity for
NASA, decision on launch
complex site and location of tracking stations, STG launch
vehicle reliability study, long
range plan for manned space flight project at ARC
2970 Notes 1 pg
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Glennan, T. Keith
Swenson, Lloyd S.
1969-10-07 Management of large programs and NASA, PERT
management system, Golovin
Committee studies on reliability, George Low’s
contribution to long range
planning for Apollo Program
2973 Transcript 6 pgs Chariots for Apollo
Glennan, T. Sherrod, 1970-07-27 North American Aviation 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
Keith Robert Apollo spacecraft contract (unpublished)
Glennan, T. Keith
Bonney, Walter
Emme, Eugene
1971-12-20 Glennan's selection as first NASA Administrator,
Glennan's acceptance of
Administrator job contingent on Hugh Dryden being
Deputy Administrator
13311 Notes 2 pgs
Glennan, T.
Keith
Emme,
Eugene
1974-04-05 Creation of NASA, early
organization and
management, integration of Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL) and ABMA into
NASA, Symington
committee of Senate
Subcommittee on Defense
Preparedness and formation of a 10 year plan, hiring of
associate administrator,
NASA/DoD relations and cooperation
2974 Transcript 25 pgs Early NASA
History
(unpublished)
Contains
quotes and
excerpts from Glennan’s
diary
Glennan, T. Keith
Helmuth, Ruth
1976-04-19 Glennan's position as President of Case Western
Reserve
7096 Transcript 12 pgs Copyrighted by Case
Western
University Archives
Glennan, T.
Keith
Pitts, John 1980-02-19 Glennan's philosophy on big
government, hiring personnel
for HQ staff, man in space and going to the moon, life
sciences, international coop,
management, and STG selection of Clark Grant to
head biomedical research
2971 Transcript 16 pgs The Human
Factor
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Glennan, T. Keith
Bondurant, Lynn
1981-10-00 Early organization of NASA, passage of the Space Act,
integration of ABMA and
JPL, beginnings of GSFC and Deep Space Network, early
satellites and probes
2972 Transcript 8 pgs
Goett, Harry
J.
McCurdy,
Howard
1988-06-17 Goett being hired by NACA
in 1936, being part of the first group to come out and found
the Ames Research Center
(ARC), government service attracting higher calibre of
talent than private sector,
advantages in personnel recruitment during formation
of Goddard Space Flight
Center (GSFC), forcing changes in industry quality
control to ensure success of
satellites, Goett's review of Vanguard program, rigor of
GSFC satellite testing, effect
of schedule pressure on
Challenger (STS-51L)
accident, Shuttle program not
justifiable on cost basis, source of cost overruns result
from pressures to minimize
initial cost estimates in order to get programs approved,
higher level of acceptable
risk in early space program because no one had
experience with satellites,
lack of oversight by NACA Headquarters on center
research programs and
freedom to innovate,
increasing management
oversight after formation of
NASA, especially in manned space flight; Goett's belief
that NASA has been
privatized to an extent with contractors making more
18720 Transcript 38 pgs Inside NASA
decisions, Wernher von
Braun, Robert Gilruth
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Gold, Thomas Butrica,
Andrew
1993-12-14 Gold's experiences with radar
during World War II, running Arecibo Observatory,
relationship with the
Department of Defense (DoD), relationship with
National Science Foundation
(NSF), William Gordon, radio astronomy at Arecibo,
concerns over depth of dust
on the lunar surface, interpretation of planetary
radar astronomy results
18918 Transcript 45 pgs To See the
Unseen
Golden, Harvey
1976-04-16 Skylab telemetry and data communication at MSFC and
Huntsville Operations
Support Center (HOSC)
852 Transcript 23 pgs
Goldenbaum,
David
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-08-24 Differences between “First on the Moon” and the Apollo 11 mission transcripts
13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Goldin, Daniel
Foley, Teresa 1993-04-23 Program management of Space Station, Hubble, Earth
Observation System (EOS),
NASA agency overhaul, and top personnel changes
16793 Transcript 27 pgs Copyrighted by Space
News
Goldin,
Daniel
Taylor, Alotta Bradley,
George
1999-11-05 Development of launch
vehicles for the US military and NASA
18920 Transcript 86 pgs AAAS
Symposium on Developing US
Launch
Capability
Also includes
video of symposium
Goldstein, Richard M.
Butrica, Andrew
1993-09-14 Venus radar astronomy, Jupiter radar astronomy,
Mercury radar astronomy,
radar astronomy at
Goldstone, working in radar
astronomy at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), interpretation of planetary
radar astronomy results,
Thomas Gold and dust on the lunar surface, Magellen radar
experiment
18918 Transcript 61 pgs To See the Unseen
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Gordon, Richard
Furlong, William
How Gordon became a Navy pilot, college experience, test
pilot career, being a test pilot
on F-4 aircraft, setting transcontinental speed record
in 1961 with an F-4, applying
for second class of
13284 Transcript 29 pgs Copyrighted by World
Book
Encyclopedia Service
(WBESS)
astronauts, astronaut
selection as part of third
class, Gordon's family, family's view of Gordon as
an astronaut, lessons learned
from Gemini 11 extravehicular activity
(EVA), Gemini 11 flight
Gordon,
Richard
Kelly,
Michelle
1997-10-17 Astronaut selection, Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire and redesign of the command module (CM),
Gemini 8 backup crew,
Gemini 11 flight and EVA, EVA training, Apollo 9
backup crew, Apollo 12
flight, Apollo 17 and the
decision to fly Harrison
“Jack” Schmitt as lunar module (LM) pilot
18941 Transcript 38 pgs
Gordon, William E.
Butrica, Andrew
1994-11-28 Gordon's work in radio astronomy, design and
funding of Arecibo
Observatory, relationship with National Bureau of
Standards, addition of radar
astronomy to Arecibo, Thomas Gold, relationship
with National Science
Foundation (NSF), upgrades to Arecibo, leaving Arecibo
18918 Transcript 47 pgs To See the Unseen
Gorman, Sherrod, 1971-10-20 Marshall Space Flight Center 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
Harry H. Robert (MSFC) reorganization in (unpublished) 1963
Gough, Keller, Emme, 1967-09-14 NASA/Air Force cooperation 864 Transcript 42 pgs Kitty Hawk to Melvin N. Michael Eugene at Atlantic Missile Range Muroc
(AMR)
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Graham, William R.
Fries, Sylvia 1986-04-23 Graham’s educational background, management of
scientist vs. engineer and
basic vs. applied research, technology application, and
management in government
and private industry, R&D planning, aeronautical
research for aerospace planes
with current space technology, career and
projects with USAF,
employment with Hughes Aircraft
5022 Transcript 26 pgs
Grant, David Link, Mae M. 1952-10-27 Air Evacuation program
during WWII
1322 Notes 2 pgs
Graveline, Sherrod, 1972-11-28 Reasons for Graveline's 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History Duane Robert resignation as an astronaut (unpublished)
Green, Paul
E., Jr.
Butrica,
Andrew
1993-09-20 Devising anti-jamming radio
communications systems, Project West Ford also
known as Project Needles,
Venus radar astronomy, discovery of Venus's
retrograde rotation, mapping
other planets with Doppler radar
18918 Transcript 34 pgs To See the
Unseen
Greenfield, Michael
Dick, Steven J.
2004-11-05 Cancellation of fifth Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
servicing mission, return-to-
flight (RTF) requirement for Space Shuttle on-orbit
inspection and repair of
thermal tiles as driver of decision, cancellation
decision timeline
19820 Transcript 14 pgs Hubble Servicing (unpublished)
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Greenshields, David
1983-06-13 Thermal protection system (TPS) research at Langley
Research Center (LaRC),
Space Shuttle configuration studies
19886 Notes 4 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Gregory,
Frederick D.
Dick, Steven
J.
2004-08-16 Gregory's motives for
becoming an astronaut, value of exploration, Hubble Space
Telescope (HST), risks of a
HST servicing mission, evaluating risk,
announcement of decision to
cancel fifth HST servicing mission, robotic servicing
mission
19820 Transcript 21 pgs Hubble Servicing
(unpublished)
Griffin, Gerald D.
Sherrod, Robert
1974-03-08 Work for Lockheed in satellite testing in 1960,
joining NASA in 1964, work
as guidance and navigation (GNC) flight controller
during Gemini program,
Griffin's work on recovery from Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
promotion to Apollo flight
director, Griffin's role on Apollo 11 flight, work on
Apollo 13 flight after
accident in planning spacecraft maneuvers to
return crew to Earth,
choosing flight director colors, changes made to
Apollo command module
(CM) after Apollo 1 fire, relationship between crew
and mission control during
Apollo 7 flight, Apollo 8
flight and Frank Borman's
illness, Apollo 9 flight and
Apollo guidance systems, Apollo 10 flight, lunar
mascons, Apollo 12 flight, Apollo 14 flight and trek to
Cone Crater
13286 &
13314
Transcript 37 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
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Griffin, Gerald D.
Sherrod, Robert
1974-04-11 Role of science on Apollo missions from a flight
director's viewpoint, Apollo
15 flight, Apollo 16 flight, Apollo 17 flight, organization
and operation of Mission
Control during flights
13286 &
13314
Transcript 33 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Griffin,
Gerald D.
McCurdy,
Howard
1990-04-10 Griffin's decision to become
an aeronautical engineer due
older brother being a pilot
during World War II,
summer job at Douglas Aircraft as a draftsman, work
at Lockheed testing early
satellites, joining NASA as a flight controller at the start of
the Gemini program, feeling
honored to be working at NASA on a national mission,
speed of decision to conduct
extravehicular activity (EVA) on Gemini 4, decision to fly
first Apollo spacecraft after
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire as a manned flight (Apollo 7),
Apollo 8 as most dangerous
NASA mission, youth of Apollo team, Apollo 12
lightning strike during
launch, lack of acceptance of risk a political problem rather
than NASA internal or public
perception problem, greater media coverage as driver for
fear of risk, preparation for
failure by practice and flight simulation, changes in NASA
contract management and
oversight from participant in design and development to
essentially a hardware
purchaser, effect of Space Station Freedom (SSF) on
Johnson Space Center (JSC),
lack of funding flexibility and political backing for
18720 Transcript 63 pgs Inside NASA
Space Shuttle, Shuttle solid
rocket booster (SRB) o-ring joints a critical risk
regardless of temperature,
waning public interest in space program as a result of
success, why so many flight
controllers became JSC and NASA senior management,
shift in technical
decisionmaking from NASA centers to headquarters, lead
center concept to separate
technical and political decisions, Chris Kraft
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Griffin,
Michael D.
Butrica,
Andrew
1997-08-18 Strategic Defense Initiative
(SDI) work at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL),
DC-X experimental aircraft,
Space Exploration Initiative (SEI), Griffin's role in SEI
for NASA Office of
Exploration, Access to Space
study
18996 Transcript 37 pgs Single Stage to
Orbit History (unpublished)
Griffith, Sherrod, 1971-10-07 Norman Mailer’s writings on 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History Thomas Robert Apollo 11 & (unpublished)
13348
Grissom, Mrs.
Dennis
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-10-31 Gus Grissom 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Grissom, Virgil I.
("Gus")
Hay, Jacob 1967-01-09 Grissom's predictions for future lunar programs beyond
Apollo, NASA's failure to
integrate lessons from Mercury and Gemini into
Apollo spacecraft, Gemini as
better spacecraft for earth orbital operations, Gemini
techniques integrate into
Apollo well, lack of rescue options during Apollo lunar
missions, career plans for
Grissom's sons, space program spinoffs, biggest
risks for Apollo lunar flights,
Apollo reentry procedures, NASA tendency to downplay
risk of spaceflight, Manned
Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), analyzing results of AS-202
unmanned Apollo flight,
Scott Carpenter's MA-7 Mercury flight, comparison
of Mercury, Gemini, and
Apollo launch escape systems, Apollo command
module (CM) simulators, Apollo CM guidance system
13315 Transcript 21 pgs
Gross, Al Ertel, Ivan 1972-04-04 Space suit design and testing
for Apollo program
933 Transcript 34 pgs
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Grunsfeld, John
Dick, Steven J.
2004-04-13 Grunsfeld's support of Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) first servicing mission,
Grunsfeld's roles in the HST third and fourth servicing
missions, bringing HST back
to Earth, planning for fifth servicing mission,
cancellation of fifth servicing
mission, lack of risk analysis, astronaut view of
cancellation, Columbia
Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) requirements and
flying to HST, announcement
of decision to cancel fifth HST servicing mission,
planning for robotic servicing
of HST
19820 Transcript 26 pgs Hubble Servicing (unpublished)
Gunderson, Joseph
Guilmartin, Joseph
Mauer, John 1984-10-10 Testing the thermal protection system (TPS) of
the X-20 Dynasoar while at
Boeing, developing thermal
protection systems for
commercial products, reentry
simulations to test TPS on X-20 and ASSET programs,
working on Boeing proposal
for Space Shuttle TPS, Boeing proposal for Shuttle
external tank (ET)
19886 Transcript 25 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Gustafson, Byers, Don 2002-10-09 Biographical information, 18942 Transcript Frederick P. evolution of the helicopter,
rotary wing
Guy, Walter W.
Jaxx, James Ezell, Edward 1974-07-07 Development of Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)
Extravehicular Activity
(EVA) and docking procedures
6687 Transcript 56 pgs The Partnership
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Haeussermann McCurdy, 1988-03-22 Coming to the US in 1948 to 18720 Transcript 52 pgs Inside NASA , Walter Howard join the "Paperclip Germans"
at Fort Bliss, decision to
study engineering in Germany prior to World War
II, working conditions at Fort
Bliss, US Army commanders looking the other way on
space exploration programs
at Huntsville in 1950s, camouflaging satellite
development program in
Jupiter nose cone work, Haeussermann's views on
Vanguard reliability
problems, dissasembling rockets as quality control
check, von Braun team
teaching US companies to build launch vehicles to
expections by copying
designs already built at Redstone Arsenal before
allowing companies to
modify designs, problems on Apollo 6 Saturn V test flight,
measures to ensure reliability during manufacturing launch
vehicles, Haeussermann's
views on "all-up" testing concept, Wernher von Braun
giving bottle of champagne
to engineer who reported his own mistake, Shuttle
decision as purely political
not possible from engineering standpoint to be cost
efficient, Space Shuttle main
engine (SSME) design, making decisions on whether
to use off the shelf or new
technologies for Saturn V, need for NASA in-house
technical capability to
oversee contractors effectively, SSME design and
development problems,
failure of NASA administrators to make
convincing arguments for
space program, von Braun as manager
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Hage, George Sherrod,
Robert
1969-04-17 Upcoming Apollo 11 flight,
Apollo lunar module (LM), decision to send Apollo 8
around the moon, pogo
problems on the Saturn V launch vehicle
13286 Notes 6 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Hagen, John P.
Green, Constance
Lomask, Milton
1967-03-17 Vanguard project and Minitrack
902 Notes 3 pgs Vanguard: A History
Haise, Fred
W., Jr.
Sherrod,
Robert
1974-07-01 How Haise came to be on the
Apollo 13 crew, Apollo lunar module (LM), Apollo 13
flight, Apollo 13 accident,
Haise's airplane crash
13286
& 13317
Transcript 24 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Haise, Fred W., Jr.
Rosenbaum, Stewart
1983-03-15 Apollo 13 flight, Apollo 13 accident, Space Shuttle
Approach and Landing Test
(ALT) flights
8369 Transcript 39 pgs
Haise, Fred
W., Jr.
Gruen, Adam 1988-05-06 Career with Grumman
Corporation, Space Station
Freedom (SSF), contract management
8385 Transcript 35 pgs Space Station
Freedom History
(unpublished)
Hall, Albert Emme,
Eugene
Ray, Thomas 1972-08-01 Department of Defense
Research & Engineering (DDR&E), Gemini and
Apollo programs, Titan 2 and
3 launches
913 Transcript 21 pgs
Hall, Col.
Edward N.
Hunley, John
("Dill")
1998-11-13 Hall's role in development of
US solid and liquid fueled
rocket engines, Minuteman missile
18943
&
19410
Transcript 12 pgs Launch Vehicle
Technology
Telephone
interview
Hall, Eldon
W.
Ray, Thomas 1973-06-07 Hall's career at Lewis
Research Center (LeRC), jets, propulsion, Gemini and
Apollo programs, Saturn
launch vehicles
13458 Transcript 27 pgs Early NASA
History (unpublished)
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DMS
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Hall, Harvey Ray, Thomas 1971-05-25 Project Rand, Navy/NACA cooperation
930 Transcript 59 pgs
Halpern, Richard
Gruen, Adam 1988-04-13 Merger of Space Station Freedom (SSF) utilization
and operations, space
commercialization
983 Transcript 37 pgs Space Station Freedom History
(unpublished)
Halvorsen,
Gail S.
Launius,
Roger
Leland, John 1988-05-13 Halvorsen's experiences
during the Berlin Airlift in
Germany and the origins of
LITTLE VITTLES
18944 Transcript 30 pgs
Haney, Paul P.
Merrifield, Robert
1968-04-08 Formation of NASA public information office,
relationship between
astronauts and public affairs office, Manned Spacecraft
Center (MSC) attitude
towards public affairs, press coverage of manned flights
18993 Transcript 25 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Haney, Paul
P.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-01-06 Cutting lines from Apollo 8
mission commentary, news release after Apollo 1 (AS-
204 fire), additional material
on Apollo 1 crew’s final tapes, General Sam Phillips'
reaction to Apollo 1 fire
13286 Notes 7 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Haney, Paul P.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-01-07 Public affairs role in aftermath of Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire and investigation,
Joe Shea, NASA notification policy in event of death of an
astronaut, Haney's
relationship with Julian Scheer
13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Haney, Paul
P.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-06-17 Alan Shepard and Tom
Stafford as original Gemini 3
crew, John "Shorty" Powers,
serving as the "voice of
mission control", LIFE contract
13286 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Hardy, George
Guilmartin, Joseph
1984-07-13 Problems associated with man-rating the Space Shuttle
Solid Rocket Boosters
(SRBs), trading SRB performance for safety, SRB
design, in-house design and
development of reusable Shuttle SRBs at Marshall
Space Flight Center (MSFC),
value of in-house SRB development versus
contracting out, Shuttle SRB
parachute tests, SRB system integration with Shuttle
orbiter and external tank (ET)
19886 Transcript 16 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Hardy, Jerome Sherrod, Robert
1972-10-04 LIFE contract with astronauts 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Harlow, Bryce
N.
Emme,
Eugene
Roland, Alex 1974-06-11 US Congress and rocketry
after World War II, Eisenhower administration
missile program, impact of
Sputnik, formation of NASA,
"missile gap", Eisenhower's
interest in the space program
12415 Transcript 52 pgs Early NASA
History (unpublished)
Harmon, John K.
Butrica, Andrew
1994-03-15 Harmon's work at Arecibo, Mars radar astronomy,
Ganymede and Callisto radar
astronomy, Mars radar mapping, Mercury radar
astronomy, difficulties in the
field of radar astronomy, Near Earth Object (NEO)
radar astronomy, influence of
computers
18918 Transcript 107 pgs To See the Unseen
Harney,
Connie
Wright,
Rebecca
Johnson,
Sandra
2001-06-12 Harney's work at Dryden
Flight Research Center
(DFRC) as a computer
programmer (not a human
"computer"), being a female supervisor in the 1960s
through the 1980s, personnel
management at DFRC, technology changes in DRFC
computing, test flights
3636 Transcript 35 pgs Herstory Project
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Harper, Lynn D.
Dick, Steven J.
1997-05-13 Exobiology space flight experiments, funding SETI,
impact of discovery of
exoplanets on exobiology at NASA, extremophiles as
analogues for extraterrestrial
life, exobiology at Ames Research Center (ARC), Dan
Goldin as NASA
Administrator
19505 Transcript 32 pgs SETI History (unpublished)
Harper, Lynn
D.
Dick, Steven
J.
1997-11-21 Organization of astrobiology
at NASA Headquarters and centers, NASA astrobiology
budget, astrobiology program
management
19505 Transcript 15 pgs SETI History
(unpublished)
Harris, T.
Aubrey
Bonney,
Walter
1974-09-23 Harris's career at NACA and
Langley Laboratory 1927,
engines and atmospheric wind tunnel, aeronautics
courses in 1928, Navy
bioplane system projects, WWII research leading up to
X-1, Lewis Research Center
(LeRC)
18844
&
19511
Transcript 5 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
Harris,
Gordon L.
Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab rescue mission and
parasol deployment
957 &
7589
Transcript 19 pgs
Hasson,
Dennis
Dick, Steven
J.
2007-06-12 Hasson's education,
aeronautical design work at
Glenn L. Martin Company, employment at NACA
Langley Research Center
(LaRC), work in Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, transition from
NACA to NASA, design of
Mercury spacecraft, possibility of using a
lenticular (saucer-shaped)
spacecraft in Apollo, work with the Space Task Group
(STG), design of the Orbiting
Astronomical Observatory (OAO) at Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC)
19819 Transcript 12 pgs Includes
related
material
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Hauck, 1983-05-00 Planned activities and 970 Transcript 15 pgs Richard experiments for STS-7
mission
Hauenstein,
Clifford
Brooks,
Courtney
1970-07-15 Hauenstein's work at
Rocketdyne for Apollo program: lunar module (LM)
and command and service
module (CSM) engines
971 Transcript 47 pgs Chariots for
Apollo
Hawkins, Leticha
Rosenfeld, Susan
2003-07-03 Educator Astronaut (EA) program, EA astronaut
selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 7 pgs Educator Astronaut
Program (EAP)
History (unpublished)
Headlee, Sherrod, 1973-06-22 NASA public affairs 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
Joseph Robert produced TV, films, and (unpublished) radio interviews for
distribution
Hearth, Donald P.
McCurdy, Howard
1988-06-15 Hearth's decision to join NASA In 1962, Hearth's
education and decision to
become an engineer, joining the NACA Lewis Research
Center (LeRC) in 1951,
NASA inheriting tradition of technical integrity and talent
from NACA, source of
NASA's continuing ability to attract talented engineers,
Langley Research Center
(LaRC) center culture vs. Goddard Space Flight Center,
planetary program new starts
under Hearth, cancellation of Grand Tour probes and
resurrection as Voyager,
Viking schedule slip after
budget cut, methods of
continuing planetary probes
after budget cuts, effect of underfunding on Space
Shuttle development
schedule, Hearth's belief it was a mistake to "sell"
Shuttle on the basis of being
18721 Transcript 64 pgs Inside NASA
cost effective, Marshall
Space Flight Center (MSFC) management culture and
effect on Challenger (STS-
51L) accident, problems in spacecraft reliability and
systems engineering, NASA
acceptance of risk in the 1960s versus 1970s and
1980s, increasing control and
oversight of programs from Congress and NASA
Headquarters, issues with
lead center concept, problems with Space Station Freedom
(SSF) management team,
public opinion on space program and its value
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Hedgepeth, Mary
Hedgepeth, John
Wright, Rebecca
Johnson, Sandra
2001-06-12 Hedgepeth's work at the NACA Flight Research
Center (FRC) as a human
computer, move from human computer to computer
programmer, FRC culture
and social life, attitudes towards working women
3636 Transcript 56 pgs Herstory Project
Heiss, Klaus Logsdon, John 1978-03-27 Space Shuttle decision
process
7915 Transcript 81 pgs The Shuttle
Decision
Hello, Bastian
"Buzz"
Ertel, Ivan 1968-12-20 North American Aviation
(NAA) after the Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, spacecraft
design, Apollo command
module (CM), Guenter Wendt, NAA Kennedy Space
Center (KSC) operations
19529 Transcript 13 pgs Used for
"Before This Decade Is
Out"
Helms, Ray Houston, Serick, Robert Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 anomaly, Marshall 1002 Transcript 23 pgs
Cecil parasol, and Skylab 2 & 7589
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Herman, Daniel H.
Fries, Sylvia 1985-03-26 Herman's work at Sperry Gyroscope Company, role of
computers in engineering,
working in government versus private sector as an
engineer, space station design
in the 1960s and the 1980s, justification for a space
station, space station power
system
3577 Transcript 23 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Herman,
Daniel H.
Gruen, Adam 1988-04-18 Space station program, senior
engineer position
1008 Transcript 43 pgs Space Station
Freedom History (unpublished)
Hermann Dryden, Hugh 1945-06-15 Peenemunde V-2 rocket development, 1944 Institute
layout, research and
experiments
3027 Notes 4 pgs
Herring, Mack
R.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-01-08 Conflict between Herring at
MTF and Heimburg at MSFC
13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Herring, Mack R.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-11-07 NASA Administrator James Webb's visit to the
Mississippi Test Facility
(MTF)
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Hess, Wilmot Sherrod,
Robert
1969-05-18 Plans for release of
discoveries relating to lunar samples, Lunar Receiving
Laboratory (LRL), protecting
lunar samples from contamination by lunar
module (LM) propellants
13286 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Hessberg, Rufus
Pitts, John 1979-07-17 Space medicine and biomedical research,
“bioastronautics” vs. “space medicine”
1034 Transcript 6 pgs The Human Factor
Hjornevik,
Wesley J.
Emme,
Eugene
1967-03-09 Hjornevik's role as personal
assistant to T. Keith Glennan
1016 Transcript 13 pgs
Hochstein, Lawrence
Dick, Steven J.
1997-05-15 Hochstein's work with Joshua Lederberg in exobiology,
extremophiles as analogues
for life on Mars
19505 Transcript 7 pgs SETI History (unpublished)
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Hobbs, Luke Bonney, 1971-10-27 Pre-WWII research on 1018 Transcript 12 pgs NACA History Walter aircraft and jet engines & (unpublished)
19511
Hodge, John
D.
Mauer, John Formation of the Lunar
Exploration Program Office to plan for lunar landing
missions after Apollo 11,
lunar module (LM) upgrades, beginning to look beyond
Apollo and change to
Advanced Missions Program Office (AMPO), Johnson
Space Center (JSC) space
station studies, Integrated Logistics and Reentry
Vehicle (ILRV) as concept
preceding Shuttle, JSC interest in Shuttle arising out
of necessity for space station
related launch vehicle, Hodge's recommendation for
JSC to be lead center for
19886 Transcript 16 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
Shuttle, Shuttle program
management in 1969
Hodge, John D.
Merrifield, Robert
1968-03-15 Hodge joining NASA after cancellation of AVRO
Arrow, Mercury flight
control operations, switch to Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC) for mission control,
Gemini and Apollo program mission control
18993 Transcript 27 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Hodge, John
D.
Fries, Sylvia 1985-03-04 Space station 1020 Transcript 18 pgs
Hodge, John D.
Gruen, Adam 1986-12-18 Shuttle, space transportation system
1020 Transcript 123 pgs
Hodge, John Gruen, Adam 1988-02-25 Space station design, Skylab 1020 Transcript 125 pgs Space Station
D. project Freedom History (unpublished)
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Hodge, John D.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-10-05 Webb's method of dealing with conflicts between
centers during Apollo
program, George Mueller, Robert Gilruth, contract
management, Skylab
decision, Webb's personnel management style
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Hodgkins,
Kenneth D.
Butler, Carol Gabrynowicz,
Joanne
2002-01-10 Hodgkins' occupational
experiences, United Nations Principles on Remote
Sensing, Landsat, SPOT
18946 Transcript 71 pgs
Hoffman, Samuel K.
Brooks, Courtney
1970-07-17 Rocketdyne, early launch vehicles and rocket engines
1022 Transcript 23 pgs Chariots for Apollo
Holcomb,
John
Ray, Thomas 1972-06-06 Development of KSC launch
facilities, coordination of KSC, MSFC, HQ, Apollo
tracking stations
1026 Transcript 29 pgs
Holland, John W.
Merrifield, Robert
1967-12-04 Photography of John Glenn's Mercury flight (MA-6)
recovery and post-flight
activities, Manned Spacecraft
Center (MSC) photo lab,
support of in-flight
photography for manned missions
18993 Transcript 27 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Hollingsworth
, Connie
Rosenfeld,
Susan
2003-06-09 Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 3 pgs Educator
Astronaut Program (EAP)
History
(unpublished)
Holmes, Brainerd D.
Neff, Don 1969-02-18 Apollo program, lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) vs. earth
orbit rendezvous (EOR),
Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF) and Raytheon
positions
1052, 13211,
13322
Transcript 4 pgs Copyrighted by Time, Inc.
Holmes, Jay Sherrod,
Robert
1972-01-27 Source for President
Kennedy's 1962 statement about US/USSR competition
13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
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Holmes, Jay Sherrod, Robert
1972-02-09 Relationship between James Webb and George Mueller,
Webb's views on importance
of space program
13286 &
13354
Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Holmes, Jay Sherrod, Robert
1972-02-11 Webb's vision for NASA in 1968, NASA budget cuts,
President Kennedy's speech
at Rice University, Webb and
Brainerd Holmes
13286 Notes 5 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Holmes, Jay Sherrod, Robert
1972-06-28 Exit interview including Aerospace view during
NASA/USAF struggles,
Missiles & Rockets reporter, Eisenhower, Kennedy and
Johnson administrations;
advanced manned missions, George Mueller, NASA/DoD
relationship
13269, 13286,
13321,
13354
Notes 12 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
#13321 contains only
partial notes
Hood, Manley
J.
Bonney,
Walter
1974-09-23 NACA career, wind tunnel
design and use, P-51 Mustang, jet propulsion
1074 Transcript 18 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
Hopson, George
Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Chief of Life Support and Environmental branch,
Skylab environment and
thermal control, Skylab 1 accident and Skylab 2 repair
mission
1081 &
7589
Transcript 19 pgs
Horner, Richard
Bonney, Walter
1972-05-03 Aeronautical developments and funding, Army Air
Corps, industry, and NACA
during WWII
1083 Transcript 15 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Horner,
Richard
Emme,
Eugene
Sloop, John 1974-03-13 P-38, X-Type experimental
aircraft, F-100 Century series
aircraft, U-2 research and development, ABMA,
ARPA, and Saturn I project
1083
&
13458
Transcript 83 pgs Early NASA
History
(unpublished)
Also used for
"Liquid
Hydrogen as a Propulsion
Fuel, 1945-
1959"
Hornig,
Donald
Skolnikoff,
Eugene
1967-10-30 Science and foreign policy 1095 Transcript 37 pgs
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Hornig, Donald
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-11-16 President's Scientific Advisory Committee (PSAC)
and Webb, Surveyor
decision, Webb and President Lyndon Johnson, Webb and
Hornig, Webb's view of the
impact space program should have on society, Sustaining
University Program (SUP)
7106 Notes 7 pgs Powering Apollo
Horton, Vic Hallion, 1977-02-26 Flying the YF-12 and SR-71 6687 Notes 5 pgs On the Frontier
Richard Blackbird aircraft, NASA and YF-12 aircraft
Horton, W.P. Guilmartin, Joseph
1984-07-16 Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) decision to develop
Shuttle solid rocket booster
(SRB) in-house, designing a man-rated SRB, Shuttle solid
rocket motor (SRM) design,
determining trade-offs between performance and
reusability for SRB, process
for determining the safety factor of a launch vehicle,
SRB parachute drop tests,
determining acceptable levels of risk, SRB O-ring design,
relationship between MSFC
and SRB prime contractor, SRB program reviews at
MSFC
19886 Transcript 17 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Hosenball, S. Neil
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-07-17 Webb directed Hosenball to conduct investigation of
Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC) management after Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Hosenball, S.
Neil
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-07-31 How Webb set up NASA
procurement before the
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Webb's own investigation
into Apollo 1 fire, Webb's
Congressional testimony about selection of North
American Aviation (NAA) as Apollo spacecraft prime
contractor, Webb's role in
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
recovery from Apollo 1 fire,
Webb as manager
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Hosenball, S.
Neil
Butler, Carol Gabrynowicz,
Joanne
2002-02-07 Hosenball's NASA career and
UN Principles on Remote Sensing
18108 Transcript 95 pgs Copyrighted
by National Remote
Sensing and
Space Law Center,
University of
Mississippi
Houbolt, John Neff, Don 1969-02-10 Plans for an earth orbital space station in the 1950s,
and decision to use lunar
orbit rendezvous (LOR) instead of earth orbit
rendezvous (EOR) for Apollo
program
1100, 13211,
13322
Transcript 13 pgs Copyrighted by Time, Inc.
Hughes, Philip S.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-11-02 Webb's reputation at the Bureau of Budget (BoB),
BoB view of Apollo
program, Webb's role as a Regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, contrast between
Webb and Robert McNamara as managers
7106 Notes 7 pgs Powering Apollo
Hull, Gen.
Harris
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-04-06 NASA Administrator James
Webb as motivator and persuader
13287 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Hull, Gen. Harris
Lambright, W. Henry
1989-08-24 James Webb's dislike of publicity, love of learning
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Hull, Gen.
Harris
Lambright, W.
Henry
1989-09-25 Webb's love of learning,
Webb's career prior to Bureau of Budget (BoB),
Webb's handling of Congress
as NASA Administrator,
Webb at Sperry Gyroscope
Company, Webb's use of
Army Corps of Engineers, Webb as a pilot
7106 Notes 16 pgs Powering Apollo
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Humelsine, Carlisle
Lambright, W. Henry
1986-06-05 Organization of the State Department after World War
II, Webb's role in ensuring
State Department dominance of foreign policy under
Truman administration, Paul
Nitze, Webb and Dean Acheson, Webb's role as
Undersecretary of State in
managing State Department
7106 Notes 7 pgs Powering Apollo
Humphrey,
Hubert H.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-05-11 Humphrey's role as chairman
of the National Space Council, Manned Orbiting
Laboratory (MOL), value of
manned space flight, psychological impact of
Apollo 11 moon landing on
leaders of Soviet Union, Humphrey in Moscow during
Apollo 11, Senator Robert
Kerr, Humphrey's assessment of James Webb as NASA
Administrator, Humphrey's
reaction to Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, trip to Paris Air
Show with Gemini 4 crew
13287 Transcript 15 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Humphreys,
James W., Jr.
Pitts, John 1979-05-02 Life Sciences Council, bio-
technology, space biology
and space medicine division within Office of Manned
Space Flight (OMSF)
1068 Transcript 37 pgs The Human
Factor
Hunsaker, 1962-03-27 NACA Chairmanship, 1069 Transcript 5 pgs
Jerome C. scientific and technical approach
Hunsaker, Bonney, 1971-11-02 Transition from NACA to 1069 Transcript 16 pgs NACA History
Jerome C. Walter NASA, Hugh Dryden, & (unpublished)
NACA management 19511
Hunter, 1999-00-00 Reusable rockets, Star 18947 Transcript 24 pgs NASA Self-
Maxwell Clipper, Space Shuttle Directed Oral thermal tiles, single stage to History Project
orbit
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Huntoon, Carolyn L.
McMahon, A. Michal
1985-09-24 Huntoon's education in medical technology,
difference of expected and
actual problems in space medicine, studying
physiological changes to
astronauts due to weightlessness on Skylab and
Space Shuttle, difference
between science management and general management at
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
3577 Transcript 14 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Huntress, Wesley
Wright, Rebecca
2003-01-09 Cassini-Huygens, Upper Atmosphere Research
Satellite (UARS), Planetary
Division, Mars Pathfinder, Near Earth Asteroid
Rendezvous (NEAR),
Discovery, Earth Observation System (EOS), Mission to
Planet Earth, Hubble,
international cooperation, Allan Hills meteorite (Mars
rock)
18948 Transcript 41 pgs NASA HQ Administrators
Oral History
Project
Hurt, J.B. Swenson, Lloyd S.
Ertel, Ivan 1970-01-28 Little Joe II, solid propulsion, General Dynamics, Little Joe
launch vehicle design, White
Sands Missile Range (WSMR), spacecraft
guidance
19350 Transcript 28 pgs Used for "Before This
Decade is
Out"
Hurtt, Caleb 1975-08-19 Martin Marietta’s role in Apollo Applications Program
and payload integration for
Skylab Project
1102 Transcript 31 pgs
Huzel, Dieter Swenson,
Lloyd S.
Ray, Thomas 1970-07-20 V-1 and V-2 projects at
Peenemunde, Operation Paperclip, rocket engine
development up to Saturn 5
launch vehicle
1089 Transcript 32 pgs
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DMS and Notes
#
Hyatt, Abraham
Sloop, John 1974-04-26 Study of the use of hydrogen for aircraft fuel, 1959
decision to use hydrogen in a
manned launch vehicle, Delta launch vehicles
1093 Transcript 46 pgs Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion
Fuel, 1945-1959
Isakowitz, Steve
Dick, Steven J.
2004-02-18 Congressional belief Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and
James Webb Space
Telescope (JWST) would overlap, planning for fifth
HST servicing mission in
NASA budget, NASA internal doubts of keeping
HST until JWST launched,
impact of Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) on HST
fifth servicing mission,
timeline of fifth servicing mission cancellation
19820 Transcript 31 pgs Hubble Servicing (unpublished)
Jackson,
James B.
Guilmartin,
Joseph
Mauer, John 1985-08-05 Selection of Space Shuttle
Main Engine (SSME) design,
selection of Shuttle baseline
design, design studies leading
to selection of Shuttle external tank (ET) design,
Shuttle Phase A and Phase B
design studies, US Air Force influence on Shuttle design,
cooperation between Johnson
Space Center (JSC) and Marshall Space Flight Center
(MSFC) in overseeing
Shuttle design contracts, relationship between NASA
and contractors during
Shuttle design studies
19886 Transcript 22 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
James, Lee B. Akens, David 1971-05-21 Apollo 13 Review Board, 1121 Transcript 9 pgs
Skylab malfunction and review, Space Shuttle
Interviewee Interviewee Interviewee Interviewer Interviewer Date Topics List HRC
DMS
#
Format Length Source/Project Copyright
and Notes
Jarvis, Cal Ertel, Ivan 1971-07-28 Design and testing of the Lunar Landing Research
Vehicle (LLRV) at the
NASA Flight Research Center (FRC)
1124 Transcript 52 pgs
Johnson,
Angienetta
McMahon, A.
Michal
1985-09-23 Johnson's decision to go into
engineering, working as a co-op computer programmer at
Johnson Space Center (JSC),
switch to flight operations, work as Skylab mission
controller in science
experiments, setting up mission control facility for
Space Shuttle science
payloads, space station computer programming,
issues in being a black
engineer at JSC, Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO)
3577 Transcript 22 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
Johnson,
Caldwell C.
Neff, Don 1969-02-07 Development of lunar
module (LM), lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) vs. earth
orbit rendezvous (EOR) vs.
direct ascent for lunar landing mission
1132,
13211, 13322
Transcript 10 pgs Copyrighted
by Time, Inc.
Johnson, Caldwell C.
Petynia, William
Johnson 1973-06-12 Development and construction of parasail for
Skylab 2
1132 &
7590
Transcript 44 pgs
Johnson,
Christine
Rosenfeld,
Susan
2003-06-12 Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 4 pgs Educator
Astronaut Program (EAP)
History
(unpublished)
Johnson,
Clarence L.
Sloop, John 1974-02-14 Hydrogen as a fuel, use in
Centaur and Saturn,
Johnson's work on SUNTAN
1133 Transcript 26 pgs Liquid Hydrogen
as a Propulsion
Fuel, 1945-1959
Johnson,
Clarence L.
Sloop, John 1974-05-02 Hydrogen fuel R&D, Mach
missions, SR-71 Blackbird aircraft, U-2, administration
of Lockheed
1133 Transcript 67 pgs Liquid Hydrogen
as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959
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DMS and Notes
#
Johnson, Katherine
Gillette, Aaron
1992-09-17 Work at NACA Langley Research Center (LaRC) as a
"computer", segregation at
LaRC, equal employment opportunity (EEO)
18898 Transcript 29 pgs Equal Employment
Opportunity Oral
History Project
Johnson,
Lyndon B.
Cronkite,
Walter
1969-07-05 Origins of the space program,
the Space Council, decision to land a man on the Moon,
Sputnik I & Sputnik II, future
of the space program, Russian space program,
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
Mercury 7
12530 Transcript 45 pgs Transcript of
CBS News Interview
broadcast
Sunday, 7/21/1969
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-07-25 1958 civilian vs. USAF control of space program,
James Webb as
Administrator, Eisenhower and UN delegation, Life
contract, space program after
lunar landing, Webb and Alabama
12530 Notes 21 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Written responses to
questions
submitted by Sherrod
Johnson,
Steve
Taylor, Alotta Bradley,
George
1999-11-05 Development of launch
vehicles for the US military and NASA
18920 Transcript 86 pgs AAAS
Symposium on Developing US
Launch
Capability
Also includes
video of symposium
Johnson, Emme, 1974-02-21 Navy Bureau of Ordinance 1141 Transcript 25 pgs Early NASA Vincent Eugene and NASA launch vehicle & History
program 13459 (unpublished)
Johnson, W.
Kemble
Keller,
Michael
1967-06-27 Wind tunnel and icing tunnel
construction and research FY1940 budget and staffing,
NACA and Air Corps
cooperation for continuing research during WWII
1142 Transcript 39 pgs Kitty Hawk to
Muroc
Interviewee Interviewee Interviewee Interviewer Interviewer Date Topics List HRC Format Length Source/Project Copyright
DMS and Notes
#
Johnston, Richard S.
Merrifield, Robert
1968-04-09 Management and organization of Life Systems
Division, MSC for Mercury
and Gemini spacecraft and spacesuit development,
environmental control,
biomedical research, and centrifuge facilities
aeromedical labs with NASA
for Mercury
1145 Transcript 22 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Johnston,
Richard S.
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-12-12 Apollo 15 crew heart
problems during flight, attempts to counteract effects
of weightlessness after
Apollo 17 crew returns to earth, planned Skylab
medical experiments, mobile
labs for Skylab crews (successor to MQF),
astronaut Dave Scott,
motivation in the early days of NASA, NASA
Administrator James Webb,
managing the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL),
George Low as manager, Joe
Shea as manager, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, use of pure
oxygen in Apollo command
module (CM), redesign of CM Velcro for fire safety,
Apollo change control board
(CCB), Wilmot Hess, Apollo spacesuit contract
13287
& 13325
Transcript 45 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Johnston, S.
Paul
Bonney,
Walter
1971-10-19 Army Air Corps during
WWI, Research Coordinator at NACA, aviation activities
in Europe, steel tube aircraft
construction
1146 Transcript 16 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
Jones, Alton Green, Lomask, 1967-03-14 Tracking and telemetry for 2808 Notes 2 pgs Vanguard: A E. Constance Milton Project Vanguard History
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DMS and Notes
#
Jones, Joe Sherrod, 1971-01-08 Saturn IB launch vehicles 13287 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History Telephone Robert and Saturn V launch vehicles (unpublished) interview
used in the Apollo program
Jones, Lee W. McMahon, A.
Michal
1986-10-08 Jones' early interest in
engineering, decision to work at Marshall Space Flight
Center (MSFC) in early
1960s, interest in science fiction, work as coop student
at Army Ballistic Missile
Agency (ABMA) in 1950s, work on advanced rocket
engine technology, space
station propulsion concepts, High Energy Astronomy
Observatory (HEAO) project,
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) rescue,
MSFC project organization,
laser propulsion studies, MSFC management style,
MSFC and NASA
management training
3579 Transcript 64 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
Jones, Robert
T. "R.T."
Bonney,
Walter
1974-09-24 Aeronautical theories and
research at NACA, 1st NACA test pilot, supersonic
research, NACA aircraft
structures
1147 Transcript 19 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
Jones, Walton ("Stanley")
Pitts, John 1979-05-22 NASA/DoD biomedical programs, neutral buoyancy
training, life support systems,
life sciences projects: Mercury through Apollo
1148 Transcript 76 pgs The Human Factor
Jurgens,
Raymond F.
Butrica,
Andrew
1994-05-23 Jurgens' work at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Near Earth Object (NEO)
radar astronomy, Goldstone
Observatory, upgrade of Goldstone for use in Voyager
project, Saturn radio
astronomy, Venus radar astronomy, Mars radio
astronomy, future of
Goldstone
18918 Transcript 95 pgs To See the
Unseen
Interviewee Interviewee Interviewee Interviewer Interviewer Date Topics List HRC
DMS
#
Format Length Source/Project Copyright
and Notes
Kantrowitz, Arthur
Bonney, Walter
1971-11-01 NACA, Langley Research Center (LaRC), Eastman
Jacobs and supersonic flight
1155 Transcript 9 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Kapp, Michael
Sherrod, Robert
1971-09-30 Time-LIFE Moon records album and book, Gemini 76
"Jingle Bells"
13287 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Kapryan,
Walter J.
Grimwood,
James
1967-05-25 Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC) position, Mercury
flights, technical problems
with Gemini equipment
1158 Transcript 32 pgs On the Shoulders
of Titans
Kapryan, Walter J.
Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 malfunction and Skylab 2 repair mission
1158 &
7590
Transcript 9 pgs
Katz, Charles Fries, Sylvia 1986-06-03 Katz's work at National Die Company, work at Goddard
Space Flight Center (GSFC)
on satellite instruments, change in GSFC culture
between 1960s and 1980s,
GSFC matrix management
system
3577 Transcript 25 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Keeley, Joseph
1975-08-19 Skylab project, Apollo Applications Program,
program management,
astronaut training, interface between contractor and
NASA
1163 Transcript 43 pgs
Kelley, Albert J.
Furst, Neil 1968-05-20 Electronics Research Center (ERC) origins, site location
1168 Transcript 56 pgs
Kelley, Albert J.
Hall, R. Cargill
Dowling, Richard
1968-08-28 Establishment of Agena launch vehicle program,
management of Ranger and
Agena projects, establishment of Electronics
Research Center (ERC)
1168 &
5372
Transcript 46 pgs
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DMS and Notes
#
Kelly, Thomas J.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-12-13 Change in Apollo lunar module (LM) from initial
design to moon landing, LM
redesign after Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, LM weight
reduction program, added
LM capabilities after Apollo 11 flight, LM design, Apollo
5 unmanned LM flight,
Apollo 9 flight, origin of LM lifeboat concept used during
Apollo 13 flight, "leftover"
LMs, LM landing radar failure during Apollo 12,
value of lunar orbit
13287 &
13326
Transcript 28 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
rendezvous (LM) for manned lunar landing
Kendricks, Gen.
Link, Mae M. 1951-08-15 Advising Kendricks of new historical program
1322 Notes 2 pgs
Kennel,
Charles F.
Johnson,
Sandra
2002-10-21 Voyager, Space Studies
Board, Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Mission to
Planet Earth, Earth
Observing System (EOS), Earth Science, Dan Goldin,
astrobiology, environmental
policy, international cooperation, CEOS, IGOS,
global warming, Landsat,
education, NAC, International Space Station
(ISS)
18949 Transcript 50 pgs NASA
Administrators Oral History
Project
Kernell, Samuel
Lambright, W. Henry
1988-08-30 James Webb's role during the Truman administration
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Kerr, Breene
M.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1989-11-29 Webb's reorganization of
Republic Supply Company,
Senator Kerr's relationship
with Webb, Kerr's
recommendation of Webb for NASA Administrator, Webb
instituting Source Evaluation
Boards (SEBs) at NASA, Webb's ability to keep
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
different constituencies
happy
Interviewee Interviewee Interviewee Interviewer Interviewer Date Topics List HRC
DMS
#
Format Length Source/Project Copyright
and Notes
Kerridge,
John
Dick, Steven
J.
1997-02-15 Study of meteorites and their
formation, cosmic dust research, origins of organic
chemicals in meteorites,
"Mars rock", question of microfossils in "Mars rock"
19505 Transcript 27 pgs SETI History
(unpublished)
Keyworth, George
Baucom, Donald
1987-09-28 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
16766 Transcript 40 pgs
Khare, Bishun Dick, Steven J.
1997-05-16 Carl Sagan, simulation of early Earth and other
planetary atmospheres,
NASA grants
19505 Transcript 11 pgs SETI History (unpublished)
Kiker, John
W.
Merrifield,
Robert
1968-06-24 Gemini land landing systems,
Gemini recovery system and testing, Apollo recovery
system and testing
18993 Transcript 18 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Killian, James R., Jr.
Skolnikoff, Eugene
1967-04-28 Science and foreign policy 1190 Transcript 20 pgs
Killian, James R., Jr.
Emme, Eugene
Roland, Alex 1974-07-23 Selection of first NASA Administrator
13459 Transcript 43 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
Kim, Chan Rosenfeld, Susan
2003-08-07 Educator Astronaut (EA) program, EA astronaut
selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 4 pgs Educator Astronaut
Program (EAP)
History (unpublished)
Kincaid,
Michael
Rosenfeld,
Susan
2003-11-12 Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 3 pgs Educator
Astronaut Program (EAP)
History
(unpublished)
King, Charles
H.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-03-02 POGO and engine problems
of Saturn V launch vehicle
13287 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
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DMS and Notes
#
King, Elbert A.
Tatarewicz, Joseph
Allton, Judy 1993-03-11 Contacts between geologists in academia and NASA,
King's education as a
geologist, Eugene Shoemaker's influence on
19508 Transcript 94 pgs Astrogeology History
(unpublished)
lunar geology, Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC) attitudes toward science,
MSC geologists' role in lunar
landing site selection, astronaut geology training by
MSC geologist, politics of
lunar geology, lunar sample selection planning, design of
Lunar Receiving Laboratory
(LRL), construction of the LRL, potential contamination
of lunar samples, lunar
sample quarantine
King, Jack Sherrod, Robert
1969-10-30 Release of news on Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
13287 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Kingsbury, Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 damage during 1195 Transcript 54 pgs
James E. launch & 7590
Kingsbury, James E.
Whalen, Jessie
1988-11-17 Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) decision to conduct
Shuttle propulsion systems
integration in-house, Kingsbury's role on Solid
Rocket Motor Design Team
Requalification Board after Challenger (STS-51L)
accident, reasoning behind
selecting Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) as Shuttle first
stage, safety tradeoffs
involved in using SRBs instead of liquid propulsion,
challenges involved in
designing the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME),
continuing design
improvements on the SSME, design and fabrication of the
19886 Transcript 15 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Shuttle external tank (ET),
redesigns of ET to reduce weight and cost, SRB
parachute development and
testing, SRB parachute failure during SRB reentry on
STS-4 mission
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DMS and Notes
#
Kinzler, Jack Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 malfunction,
Kinzler's Johnson Space
Center (JSC) Technical
Services role, Mercury
spacecraft impact bag, design and deployment of Skylab
parasol
1196
&
7590
Transcript 51 pgs
Kinzler, Jack McDonald, Doyle
1997-06-09 Building models for wind tunnels at Langley Research
Center (LaRC), setting up
technical services at MSC/JSC, Mercury
boilerplate spacecraft,
Mercury heat shield, building spacecraft models and
mockups
1196 &
18950
Transcript 22 pgs
Kirkpatrick, Lambright, W. 1989-12-02 Webb's involvement in 7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
John Henry promoting education and educational foundations,
Webb's sense of ethics
Kirschbaum, Howard W.
Keller, Michael
1967-06-15 Kirschbaum's aeronautical research at Langley Research
Center (LaRC), wind tunnel
testing, relationship between NACA and military,
formation of Ames Research
Center (ARC), John F. Victory
1198 Notes 2 pgs Kitty Hawk to Muroc
Kissinger,
Lawrence D.
McMahon, A.
Michal
1985-09-24 Kissinger's work at Johnson
Space Center (JSC) as a co-op student, 1970s JSC space
station studies, space station
program organization, spacesuit fire and lessons
learned, JSC space station
program management
3577 Transcript 19 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
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DMS and Notes
#
Kistiakowsky, George B.
Skolnikoff, Eugene
1967-04-28 Nuclear test ban treaty negotiations during
Eisenhower administration,
how Kistiakowsky was chosen to be head of
1200 &
13330
Transcript 19 pgs #13330 is partial
transcript
President's Science Advisory
Committee (PSAC), transfer of Army Ballistic Missile
Agency (ABMA) from Army
to NASA, PSAC opinions on manned spaceflight program
during Eisenhower
administration, PSAC Apollo study, Eisenhower's farewell
speech on the military-
industrial complex
Klein, Harold P. "H.P."
Dick, Steven J.
1997-05-14 Orr Reynolds, Richard Young, formation of
exobiology program at Ames
Research Center (ARC), NASA exobiology program
management, Viking and life
on Mars debate, "Mars rock",
analyzing evidence for life in
meteorites
19505 Transcript 19 pgs SETI History (unpublished)
Kleinknecht, Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 damage during 1205 Transcript 38 pgs
Kenneth S. launch and repair, design of & SEVA sail and parasol for 7591
Skylab 2 mission
Kline, Ray Sherrod, Robert
1971-04-12 Webb and 1964 Alabama civil rights controversy,
possibility of moving
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), MSFC
reorganization
13287 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Kline, Ray Lambright, W.
Henry
1992-02-07 Webb's relationship with
Wernher von Braun, Webb and von Braun's mutual
interest in management,
Webb's preparation to testify before Congress re Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire investigation,
George Mueller
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
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DMS and Notes
#
Konecci, Eugene
Emme, Eugene
Grimwood, James
1973-08-30 Research at Douglas Aircraft on spacecraft, NASA long
range planning, advanced
research, technology, biomedical research
1223 &
13459
Transcript 45 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
Kraft,
Christopher
C., Jr.
Merrifield,
Robert
1967-10-05 NACA response to Sputnik,
formation of Space Task
Group (STG) Flight
Operations, Mercury flight control operations, shift of
mission control to Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC) for Gemini, remote mission
control sites during Project
Mercury, Scott Carpenter's Mercury (MA-7) flight
18994 Transcript 92 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Kraft, Christopher
C., Jr.
Neff, Don 1969-02-04 Development of lunar module (LM) systems, lunar
orbit rendezvous (LOR) vs.
earth orbit rendezvous (EOR), Mercury and Gemini
benefits for Apollo
1239 &
13331
Transcript 15 pgs Copyrighted by Time, Inc.
Kraft, Donlan, Sherrod, 1970-01-15 The selection of the first and 13286 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
Christopher Charles J. Robert second groups of astronauts (unpublished) C., Jr.
Kraft, Sherrod, 1972-07-23 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project 13287 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History Christopher Robert (ASTP), astronauts for & (unpublished)
C., Jr. ASTP, Wernher von Braun, 13331
Apollo 15 stamps
controversy
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DMS and Notes
#
Kraft, Christopher
C., Jr.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-07-29 Gene Kranz, Glynn Lunney, roles of Lunney and Kranz
during Apollo 13 flight,
studying aeronautical engineering at VPI, gust
alleviation work at NACA,
selection of shape for Mercury spacecraft,
formation of the Space Task
Group (STG), creation of Mercury tracking and
communications network,
need for Gemini program, Walt Williams, value of
Gemini extravehicular
13287 &
13331
Transcript 70 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
activity (EVA) for Apollo lunar missions, lunar orbit
rendezvous (LOR) decision,
George Mueller, "all-up" testing, Mueller's desire to
speed up Apollo schedule,
cause of Apollo 13 accident, Apollo 4 and Apollo 5
unmanned flights, level of
computer versus manual control in Apollo spacecraft,
Rusty Schweickart and space-sickness, use of
computers during Apollo
Kraft, Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 accident, parasail 1239 Transcript 27 pgs Christopher development, Skylab 2 to &
C., Jr. deploy SEVA sail 7591
Kraft, Ezell, Edward 1976-03-28 Development of Apollo- 1239 Transcript 10 pgs The Partnership
Christopher Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), C., Jr. Soviet space program,
electronic components, and
Skylab Program
Kraft, Ezell, Edward 1976-04-12 Apollo Soyuz Test Project 1239 Transcript 15 pgs The Partnership Christopher (ASTP) and astronaut and
C., Jr. cosmonaut crew training
Kraizman, Gerovitch, 2009-07-20 Kraizman's service in World 19860 Transcript 3 pgs Voices from the
Abram Slava War II, Soviet seizure of Soviet Space Peenemunde and V-2s, Program
transfer of V-2 to Soviet
Union, V-2 test launches in
Soviet Union
Interviewee Interviewee Interviewee Interviewer Interviewer Date Topics List HRC Format Length Source/Project Copyright
DMS and Notes
#
Kranz, Burke, James 1979-05-18 Apollo 11 landing, budget 1243 Transcript 12 pgs Copyrighted
Eugene F. cuts after 1970, anticipated by BBC problems with Apollo
equipment
Kranz, Eugene F.
McMahon, A. Michal
1985-09-23 Kranz building model airplanes as a child, USAF
pilot training in the mid-
1950s, USAF career as F-86 pilot, work at McDonnell
Aircraft Company as flight
test engineer, joining the Space Task Group (STG) at
Langley Research Center
(LaRC), transfer to Johnson Space Center (JSC), Kranz's
management philosophy,
being a practical engineer rather than a design engineer,
reasoning behind decision to
join NASA, lack of engineering experience by
1980s NASA management,
difference in engineering training between 1950s and
1980s, and hiring engineers
at JSC
3577 Transcript 21 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Kranz, Kluger, 1993-01-07 Apollo 13: Tiger team, 1243 Transcript 11 pgs Lost Moon Eugene F. Jeffrey trajectory options, burn
options, course corrections
Kranz, Eugene F.
Wright, Rebecca
Butler, Carol 1999-01-08 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, “all-up” testing, decision to send Apollo 8 on circumlunar
flight, Apollo 8 flight, Apollo 9 flight, flight controller
training for Apollo 11,
Apollo 11 flight, Mission Control Center (MCC)
19531 Transcript 51 pgs …Before This Decade is Out
Interviewee Interviewee Interviewee Interviewer Interviewer Date Topics List HRC
DMS
#
Format Length Source/Project Copyright
and Notes
Kuehnel, Helmut A.
Merrifield, Robert
1971-02-10 Development of cameras for use in manned spacecraft, use
of cameras by Project
Mercury astronauts, development of
extravehicular activity (EVA)
cameras for Gemini program, astronaut training on
cameras, Apollo astronaut
space and lunar surface photography
18994 Transcript 19 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Kuiper,
Gerald P.
Sherrod,
Robert
1973-02-05 Kuiper's view of NASA's
failure to adequately inform the public about space
program
13299
& 13287
Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Kuritsky, Jack Fries, Sylvia 1987-03-12 Kuritsky's immigration to the US as a child, decision to
study engineering, Army
service during World War II, work as a structural engineer,
hiring at Kennedy Space
Center (KSC) as testing requirements engineer, KSC
facilities engineering
3578 Transcript 12 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Ladwig, Alan Rosenfeld,
Susan
2003-06-03 Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 4 pgs Educator
Astronaut Program (EAP)
History
(unpublished)
Laeser, Richard
Gruen, Adam 1988-04-20 Laeser's career history at JPL since 1964, focusing on
Voyager Project, integration
of analysis and engineering
1261 Transcript 31 pgs
Laitin, Joseph Sherrod,
Robert
1969-02-06 Origin of the idea for Apollo
8 crew to read Genesis passages from lunar orbit on
Christmas Eve
13287 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Laitin, Joseph Sherrod,
Robert
1969-03-25 Origin of the idea for Apollo
8 crew to read Genesis
passages from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Frank
Borman
13287 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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DMS
#
Format Length Source/Project Copyright
and Notes
Larklen, Robert
Levine, Arthur
1960-08-31 Management, organization, personnel management, and
freedom for researchers for
NACA
5019 Notes 6 pgs
Lashevsky, Rafail
Gerovitch, Slava
2009-09-12 Development of Soviet electronics design, working
with American defectors on
Soviet electronics, visit by Nikita Khrushchev to design
bureau, Soviet computer
design issues
19860 Transcript 4 pgs Voices from the Soviet Space
Program
Latter, Natalie Ezell, Edward 1975-07-22 Translating for Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)
meetings
1268 Transcript 12 pgs The Partnership
Launius, Roger
McCurdy, Howard
1999-07-00 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire 18108 Transcript 28 pgs Washington Goes to the
Moon
Launius,
Roger
McCurdy,
Howard
1999-07-00 Apollo funding and
opposition to Apollo
18108 Transcript 20 pgs Washington
Goes to the Moon
Layton,
Garrison
Hallion,
Richard
1976-12-02 Space Shuttle 6688 Transcript 23 pgs On the Frontier
Lederer, Jerome
Sherrod, Robert
1971-07-28 Melvin Gough 13287 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Lee, Chester
M.
Ezell, Edward 1975-05-05 Apollo Soyuz Test Project
(ASTP), cooperation with Soviets, ASTP public
relations, and future joint
International Space Station (ISS)
1276 Transcript 36 pgs The Partnership
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Lee, Robert E. III
Fries, Sylvia 1986-11-13 Lee's early interest in mathematics, making model
airplanes and submarines
from scratch, value of science and mathematics
competitions, education in
physics at Norfolk State, co-op work at Langley Research
Center (LaRC), anonymity of
individual contributions to complex aeronautical
systems, desire to work in
hands-on engineering, work on satellite and space probe
materials, satellite lifetime
studies, science vs engineering, being a black
engineer at LaRC, "roles and
missions" reorganization of NASA in the 1970s, Lee's
year at NASA Headquarters
as part of career development program, change in
oppotunities for black
engineers after Donald Hearth became LaRC center
director, Lee's work as Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO) officer for LaRC,
being an engineer vs a manager at LaRC, change at
NASA from basic research
to applications and services orientation, increasing
reliance on contractors
3578 Transcript 59 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
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Levine, Alan Fries, Sylvia 1985-08-07 Levine's career at Ames Research Center (ARC),
aeronautical engineering with
computer models versus wind tunnel testing, changing
responsibilities of test
engineers at ARC, views of ARC management, influence
of computer-assisted design
(CAD) on aeronautical engineering
3577 Transcript 19 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Liebergot, Kluger, 1992-05-28 Role as EECOM flight 15373 Transcript 32 pgs Lost Moon
Seymour A. Jeffrey controller in resolving Apollo 13 crisis
Lilly, William Logsdon, John 1970-08-21 NASA FY1970 budget
request, Apollo Applications
Program (AAP) planning, descoping of AAP to current
Skylab program, NASA
FY1971 budget request including post-Skylab space
station studies, Townes
Committee, 1969 Space Task
Group (STG) review of
Apollo program, integrated
program plan exercise by George Mueller and
Bellcomm, STG report and
NASA response, negotiations between NASA and Bureau
of Budget (BoB) on post-
Apollo programs in NASA FY1971 budget, Robert
Mayo as head of BoB, Nixon
decision to have Presidential staffer Peter Flanigan
examine NASA FY1971 budget, result of Flanigan's
analysis, NASA response to
budget cuts, further budget cuts and NASA program
changes as a result, infighting
between Flanigan and Mayo and its effect on NASA
1302
&
19886
Transcript 38 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
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Lilly, William Emme, 1972-10-27 Early NASA organization 1302 Transcript 76 pgs Early NASA Eugene and management through History
Apollo (unpublished)
Lilly, William Mauer, John 1983-10-20 George Mueller as "father" of
the Space Shuttle at NASA, NASA post-Apollo planning
exercises, 1969 Space Task
Group (STG) report, competition of interests
within NASA for future
program priorities, gaining support for Shuttle program
in Congress and the public,
attempts to apply cost benefit analysis to Shuttle program,
Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) becoming a politicized organization and
the effect of the change on
obtaining approval for Shuttle, Mathematica Shuttle
economics study, NASA
Administrator Jim Fletcher's
decision to go with partially
reusable Shuttle design rather
than fully reusable, conflict between Johnson Space
Center (JSC) and Marshall
Space Flight Center (MSFC) for lead role in Shuttle
program, Lilly's belief that
assumptions behind lower cost estimates from partially
reusable Shuttle were
inaccurate, George Low's role in selection of partially
reusable Shuttle design,
opposition to Shuttle by Donald Rice of OMB, NASA
efforts to influence Nixon
administration on Shuttle through Caspar Weinberger
and George Schultz, meeting
between Fletcher, Low, Schultz, and Rice in
1302
& 19886
Transcript 40 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
December 1971 for final
Nixon administration decision on Shuttle program
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Lilly, William Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-07-18 Webb and Brainerd Holmes,
George Mueller, Webb's reorganization of NASA
management after Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire, Phillips Report, Webb's attempts to
bring in his management
philosophy at NASA, lack of post-Apollo planning at
NASA under Webb, budge
decisions in the 1960s vs 1970s onward
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
Lindley, Robert N.
Gainor, Chris 1997-09-28 Cancellation of Avro Arrow, Lindley's role as engineer at
McDonnell Aircraft
Corporation, Gemini spacecraft design,
Mathematica study of the
Space Shuttle
18951 Transcript 7 pgs
Lindstrom,
Robert E.
McCurdy,
Howard
1988-03-22 Wernher von Braun as a
manager, civil servant and contractor relationships
during Apollo and early
Space Shuttle programs, strength of NASA
Headquarters management in
the 1960s, NASA attitudes towards risk during Apollo
and Shuttle programs
18721 Transcript 44 pgs Inside NASA
Lloyd, O.B. Sherrod, 1971-11-11 Mercury astronaut 13287 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History ("Bill") Robert shenanigans, pranks (unpublished)
Lloyd, O.B. ("Bill")
Sherrod, Robert
1972-03-23 NASA FY1964 budget cut 13287 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
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Loening, Grover C.
Bonney, Walter
1971-11-15 Aeronautical research at NACA, aircraft design, Nave
proposal for submarine
aircraft, military dominance over NACA, STOL and
VTOL development
1330 Transcript 10 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Loftin,
Lawrence K.
Bonney,
Walter
1973-03-28 Research at Langley
Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (LMAL)on
flutter, airfoils, and laminar
flow; jet aircraft; X-type and F-100 Century Series
1331
& 19511
Transcript 13 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
Loftus, Joseph Gruen, Adam 1987-09-22 Development and verification of Space Shuttle software
1332 Transcript 50 pgs NASA Culture Study
(unpublished)
Loftus, Joseph Bingham,
Jeffrey
1999-04-29 Space program (40 year)
summary: as national policy,
every decision debated, Saturn V, space station
design; steps to Space Station
(Space Lab, Shuttle, Mir), communications satellite as
commercial space uses,
public opinion of NASA, NASA strength and weakness
as part of Federal
government, inter-center relationships, relationship
between NASA and Congress
18952 Transcript 41 pgs
Lonnquest, John
Taylor, Alotta Bradley, George
1999-11-05 Development of launch vehicles for the US military
and NASA
18920 Transcript 86 pgs AAAS Symposium on
Developing US
Launch Capability
Also includes video of
symposium
Lord, Douglas Link, Mae M. 1971-08-03 NASA life sciences program
during Mercury, reliability of
spacecraft and Shuttle
1340 Transcript 12 pgs
Lord, Douglas Werner, Leo 1975-07-10 Mission planning for lunar drill and roving vehicles,
lunar and planetary bases,
advanced launch vehicles
1340 Transcript 28 pgs
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Lord, Douglas Mauer, John 1984-10-29 NASA post Apollo planning in the mid-1960s, NASA
view of Shuttle in 1969 as
logistics vehicle for space station rather than
independent system, factors
behind change from Saturn V based space station to Shuttle
based modular space station,
lack of communication between Space Station Task
Force and Space Shuttle Task
Force, origins of Spacelab, NASA Administrator
Thomas O. Paine and attempt
to include European participation in Shuttle
development, technological
concerns leading to NASA dropping European
participation in Shuttle
development, value of 1960s space station studies for
1980s space station
development, Lord's concerns about Shuttle operational
costs
19886 Transcript 23 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Lovelace, Alan M.
Damohn, Mark
1998-03-01 Lovelace's role as Assistant Administrator for NASA
during most of Ford and all
of Carter Administration, Congressional relations,
NASA budget, White House
relations, Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), Space Shuttle
program, NASA-DoD relations, Skylab deorbit
18953 Transcript 65 pgs
Lovell,
Bernard
Butrica,
Andrew
1994-01-11 Setting up the Jodrell Bank
Observatory after World War II, end of radar astronomy at
Jodrell Bank, international
cooperation with the Soviet Union in radar astronomy,
Venus radar astronomy, lunar
18919 Transcript 73 pgs To See the
Unseen
radar astronomy, bouncing
radio communications off the moon
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Lovell, James
A., Jr.
Sherrod,
Robert
1974-06-28 Apollo 13 astronaut post-
flight tour, Lovell's idea for book on Apollo 13 flight,
history of the cause of Apollo
13 accident, movie "Houston, We've Got a Problem",
Apollo 13 accident from
crew point of view, lunar module (LM) as lifeboat,
power and consumables
problems in the LM, guidance and navigation of
Apollo 13 spacecraft after
accident, blame for Apollo 13 accident, Apollo oxygen tank
design, Ken Mattingly's
measles exposure and NASA decision to place Jack
Swigert on crew as command
module (CM) pilot, jury-
rigged carbon-dioxide
scrubber system, naming
Apollo 13 CM and LM, Apollo 13 splashdown
13287
& 13340
Transcript 71 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Lovell, James
A., Jr.
Harris, Stuart 1979-05-19 Apollo 13 flight and
malfunction, navigation on Apollo 8, astronaut
physiological and
psychological testing
1352 Transcript 13 pgs Copyrighted
by BBC
Lovell, James 1983-00-00 Apollo 13 flight and 1351 Transcript 17 pgs A., Jr. malfunction, Apollo 8,
Gemini 12, and Gemini 7
flights
Lovett, A. Merrifield, 1971-01-21 Acquisition of site for 18994 Transcript 4 pgs MSC History
Malcolm Robert Manned Spacecraft Center (unpublished) (MSC) from Rice University
and Humble Oil Company
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Low, George M.
Emme, Eugene
Rothrock, Addison
1964-05-01 President John F. Kennedy’s tour of Manned Spacecraft
Center (MSC) in 1963,
transition from Eisenhower to Kennedy Administration,
Space Task Group (STG),
reports by Wiesner, Goett, Fleming, and Hornig
committees; Lunar landing
decision, lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission
mode decision, Abe
Silverstein decision to base launch vehicle program on
hydrogen technology, report
of Large Launch Vehicle Planning Group (LLVPG)
(Golovin Committee),
Congressional testimony during Yuri Gagarin flight,
development of Saturn
launch vehicles
4137 &
13345
Transcript 32 pgs Kennedy Administration
Oral History
Project
Copyrighted by John F.
Kennedy
Library
Low, George
M.
Neff, Don 1969-02-04 Establishment and activities
of Space Task Group (STG),
Project Mercury, and move to
Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston, decision
for lunar orbit rendezvous
(LOR) mission mode for Lunar landing, Saturn launch
vehicle and Apollo spacecraft
development
4136,
13211,
13322
Transcript 7 pgs Copyrighted
by Time, Inc.
Low, George
M.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-11-07 NASA Administrator James
Webb before Congress after Yuri Gagarin flight, Brainerd
Holmes, Walt Williams,
Apollo 11 flight anomalies
13287 Notes 5 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Low, George Sherrod, 1969-12-30 Delay in identification of 13287 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History M. Robert Apollo 1 (AS-204) astronauts (unpublished)
after Apollo 1 fire, "all-up"
testing concept
Low, George
M.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-01-17 Apollo 9 flight 13287 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Low, George M.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-02-14 Night splashdown of Apollo 8, Apollo program
organization, George
Mueller, Apollo command module (CM) changes
13287 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Low, George
M.
Logsdon, John 1970-07-07 Low's familiarity with Space
Shuttle concept prior to Apollo 11 flight, Low's
response to 1969 Space Task
Group (STG) report, setting priorities for program cuts in
response to NASA budget
cuts for FY1970 and FY1971, President Nixon's
level of commitment to a
strong US space program
4134
& 19886
Transcript 17 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
Low, George M.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-07-14 Opinions of “Journey to Tranquility”, selection of North American Aviation
(NAA) as Apollo spacecraft prime contractor, Alan
Shepard and Meniere's
disease
13287 Notes 5 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Low, George
M.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-08-12 Planning for future of Apollo
after NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine’s
resignation, how Low was
informed of Paine's resignation, source evaluation
boards (SEBs) and selection
of North American Aviation (NAA) as Apollo spacecraft
prime contractor, number of
13s related to Apollo 13 flight
13287
& 13345
Notes 5 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Low, George M.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-12-24 Staff meetings at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), lunar
orbit rendezvous (LOR)
decision, limited expertise from Mercury and Gemini in
Apollo
13287 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
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Low, George M.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-06-21 Charles Mathew's management style, Joe Shea's
management style, General
Sam Phillips, Low's management style, Apollo
program situation when Low
took over from Shea, priorities in project
management
13287 Notes 9 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Low, George
M.
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-06-28 Review of manuscript in
progress “The Spacecraft O12 Fire”, Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire, Joe Shea, MR-BD
flight decision
13287
& 13346
Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Low, George M.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-07-05 Low's education as an aeronautical engineer, hiring
at Lewis Research Center
(LeRC), Abe Silverstein, Low's work as deputy to
Silverstein and Brainerd
Holmes during Mercury
program, Holmes' departure
from NASA, Low's move to
the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) as Bob
Gilruth's deputy, Gilruth as
manager, Low's assessment of Joe Shea prior to Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire, MSC
management failures prior to Apollo 1 fire, Low taking
over Apollo Spacecraft
Program Office (ASPO) after Apollo 1 fire, emotional
investment in flights, Low's
selection as NASA Deputy Administrator under Thomas
O. Paine
13287 &
13346
Transcript 16 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
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Low, George M.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-09-07 Apollo management, astronaut crew selection,
concerns about Al Shepard
returning to flight status, decision to fly Shepard on
Apollo 14 rather than Apollo
13, Apollo crew selection procedures
13287 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Low, George
M.
Sherrod,
Robert
1974-01-16 Saturn V launch vehicle,
lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR), astronaut crew
selection, Apollo spacecraft
design, Joe Shea, Configuration Control Board
(CCB)
13287
& 13346
Transcript 25 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Used for
"Before This Decade Is
Out"
Low, George
M.
Sherrod,
Robert
1974-02-12 Factors involved in the
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, spacecraft boilerplate
simulation of Apollo 1 fire,
Joe Shea, Joe Kotanchik, General Sam Phillips' role in
Apollo organization before
and after Apollo 1 fire, NASA management factors
in Apollo 1 fire, review of
Apollo 4 spacecraft after Apollo 1 fire, Bill Bergen as
replacement for Harrison
Storms at North American Aviation (NAA), Boeing TIE
Apollo integration contract,
Apollo 15 stamps controversy, fogging of
spacecraft windows, selection
of Jack Schmitt as an
13287
& 13346
Transcript 23 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
astronaut
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Low, George M.
Ezell, Edward 1975-04-30 NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine's first
proposal of joint manned
mission with the Soviet Union, forming the initial
NASA negotiation and study
team, Keldysh-Low agreement of 1970, approval
of joint docking mission by
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Soviet proposal
for docking between Apollo
spacecraft and Salyut space station, Soviet switch to
docking between Apollo and
Soyuz, working out an agreement so Apollo Soyuz
Test Project (ASTP) could be
included in 1972 summit meeting, Low attending
summit between President
Nixon and Premier Alexei Kosygin
6681 &
19886
Transcript 18 pgs The Partnership
Low, George M.
Burke, James 1979-05-25 Origins of Apollo program, President Kennedy’s decision to announce manned lunar
landing goal, decision for Lunar Orbit Rendezvous
(LOR), recovery from Apollo
1 (AS-204) fire, science in Apollo, 1970 NASA budget
cuts, public reaction to Alan
Shepard Mercury flight, role of astronauts in development
of spacecraft hardware
4135 Transcript 24 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
Low, George
M.
Logsdon, John 1980-01-30 Space Shuttle decision
process
7915 Transcript 49 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
Lucas, William R.
McCurdy, Howard
1988-03-22 Influence of the German engineers in Marshall Space
Flight Center (MSFC)
management, Lucas as first American to manage a MSFC
laboratory, relations between
NASA civil servants and contractors, why people
18721 Transcript 61 pgs Inside NASA
applied to NASA, public and
Congressional perceptions of the space program, NASA's
changing attitudes towards
risk
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Lundin, Bruce
T.
Sloop, John 1974-05-30 NACA response to Sputnik,
research vs. military focus, Centaur, hydrogen-oxygen
fueled launch vehicles, Atlas
Centaur series of launch vehicles
1361 Transcript 28 pgs Liquid Hydrogen
as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959
Lundin, Bruce T.
Emme, Eugene
1974-06-05 Centaur launch vehicle at Lewis Research Center
(LeRC)
13459 Transcript 23 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
Lunney,
Glynn S.
Butler, Carol Bergen,
Summer Chick
1999-02-08 Apollo unmanned flights,
Apollo flight controller training, lunar orbit
rendezvous (LOR), Apollo 7
flight, Apollo 13 flight, Apollo 10 flight, Apollo 11
flight, Apollo 12 flight,
Apollo and the 1960s,
Mission Control Center
(MCC)
19532 Transcript 49 pgs …Before This
Decade is Out
Lunney, Glynn S.
Butler, Carol Bergen, Summer
Chick
1999-02-26 Apollo 13 flight, Apollo 13 accident, Apollo program
19532 Transcript 45 pgs …Before This Decade is Out
Lyle, Col. V.
John
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-03-08 George Mueller and NASA
Administrator James Webb, Gen. Sam Phillips, Julian
Bowman
13287 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Lyman, Alexander S.
Ray, Thomas 1970-10-12 Boeing Technical Integration and Evaluation (TIE)
contract, ACE, LDGSE,
contract for monitoring engineering support services
1369 Transcript 40 pgs
Mackland,
Ray
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-10-31 LIFE interest in astronaut
contract, US Information Agency (USIA) rights to
foreign distribution of
astronauts' stories
13287 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
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MacNeil, Damohn, 1998-03-10 Writing Carter transition 18954 Transcript 15 pgs Nicholas Mark team position paper on
NASA
Maggin, Pitts, John 1979-10-17 Office of Life Science 1411 Transcript 16 pgs The Human Bernard Programs and biomedical Factor
research
Mahon,
Joseph
Mauer, John 1984-10-25 Assessing NASA future
launch vehicle needs while in the Office of Space Sciences
and Applications (OSSA)
during the 1960s, Mahon's evaluation of potential Space
Shuttle operational diffulties
from his experience with expendable launch vehicles
(ELVs), Mahon's views on
economic justification for Shuttle, launch vehicle
development responsibilities
of OSSA, Office of
Advanced Research and
Technology (OART), and
Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF); OART as
testbed for communications
satellites, commercialization of communications satellites,
Mahon's concern of loss of
US national capability if Shuttle replaces ELVs and
then a Shuttle is lost
19886 Transcript 11 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
Malina, Frank Hall, R.
Cargill
1968-10-29 Early years of Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL), GALCIT
rocket research group, rocket
engines, founding of Aerojet
General
1419
&
19402
Transcript 20 pgs
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Mark, Hans Fries, Sylvia 1984-09-07 Managing technology, comparison of management
at NASA and DoD,
aeronautics research at NASA, funding of long-term
projects in erratic year-to-
year budget climate, space station program, Werner von
Braun’s comparison of exploration of moon and Antarctica, human drive to
explore, military vs. civilian
space programs, and impact of scientific progress
4245 Transcript 18 pgs
Mark, Hans 1991-10-16 Post-Apollo planning,
decision to build the Space Shuttle, 1969 Space Task
Group (STG), Edward David,
President Nixon's views on space program, George Low,
sizing of the Space Shuttle
4235
& 19886
Transcript 30 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
Markarian, Brooks, 1971-12-10 Development Of Apollo 1432 Transcript 36 pgs Chariots for Donald J. Courtney lunar module (LM) and Apollo
Apollo 13 malfunction
Marshall, Bob Whalen,
Jessie
McKinley,
Sarah
1988-04-22 Decision to use solid rocket
boosters (SRBs) on Space Shuttle, post-Apollo planning
at Marshall Space Flight
Center (MSFC) under Wernher von Braun, Shuttle
development program
management at MSFC, MSFC Shuttle trade studies,
determining Shuttle payload
accommodations, SRB and Space Shuttle Main Engine
(SSME) testing for post-
Challenger (STS-51L) accident return to flight in
1988, preparation of Shuttle
external tanks (ET) for return to flight, SSME redesign,
SSME testing procedures,
redesign of solid rocket motors (SRMs) after
19886 Transcript 46 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
Challenger accident, redesign
of O-rings and joints on SRM to prevent repeat of
Challenger accident,
technical factors related to O-rings and joints causing
Challenger accident, changes
to SRB inspection procedures to increase flight safety of
SRBs, changes to SSME
inspection procedures, premise of Shuttle value
being able to return payloads
and capability not used in practice, value of space
station for Shuttle
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Martin, Franklin D.
Gruen, Adam 1988-04-13 Management structure, National Research Council,
cooperation with Johnson
Space Center (JSC), Marshall, and international
entities, unmanned vs.
manned
1437 Transcript 43 pgs Space Station Freedom History
(unpublished)
Martin,
Richard
Dawson,
Virginia P.
2000-06-05 Centaur Project, Centaur
upper stage, Atlas launch vehicles, launch vehicle
design, General Dynamics
Corporation, Shuttle Centaur
18955 Transcript 28 pgs Taming Liquid
Hydrogen
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#
Martin, Tom Fries, Sylvia 1987-03-10 Martin working on cars and building cannons as a
teenager, enlisting in the US
Army for the GI Bill, Army service in Alaska, hiring at
Army Ballistic Missile
Agency (ABMA) as mechanical engineer, MR-1
"Four Inch Flight", Albert
Zeiler, Centaur launch vehicle program, Martin's
role in the Saturn program,
work on Space Shuttle Phase B program, increase in
contracting technical work on
Shuttle and its impact on NASA, hands on engineering
versus management,
increasing bureaucratization at NASA
3578 Transcript 31 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Massey, John Gruen, Adam 1987-10-06 Space station design concepts at Marshall Space Flight
Center (MSFC) in the 1950s
and 1960s, earth orbit rendezvous (EOR) and space
stations, Skylab
18977 Notes 6 pgs Space Station Freedom History
(unpublished)
Mathews,
Charles W.
Vorzimmer,
Peter
1966-12-02 Gemini program operations 1443 Transcript 31 pgs On the Shoulders
of Titans
Mathews,
Charles W.
Merrifield,
Robert
1968-07-25 Mercury spacecraft design,
Space Task Group (STG) organization and
management, move to
Houston and formation of Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC), current state of MSC
18994 Transcript 11 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
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#
Mathews, Charles W.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-02-17 Frank Borman, scientists vs. engineers, George Mueller's
relationship with NASA
Administrator James Webb, Phillips Report, Ed White,
Gemini fuel cells, Bellcomm
Apollo studies contract, Gemini 6 and 7 combined
flight concept, Mathews'
personal memory of Gemini, decision to conduct
extravehicular activity (EVA)
on Gemini 4 flight
13287 &
13349
Notes 8 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Mathews,
Charles W.
Logsdon, John 1970-07-23 Early 1960s Space Shuttle
concepts to be launched on expendable launch vehicles
(ELVs), 1966 post Apollo
planning studies, awareness in 1968 that Apollo level of
budget for manned programs
was not likely to continue for post Apollo, Planning
Steering Group (PSG) post
Apollo program studies in 1968 and 1969, George
Mueller pushing Shuttle to
forefront rather than space station, Science and
Technology Advisory
Committee (STAC) study of NASA future manned
1443
& 19886
Transcript 26 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
programs, formation of
NASA 1969 integrated plan for future manned space
flight programs, influence of
NASA on 1969 Space Task Group (STG)
recommendations on future
manned planetary space flight programs, convincing
Congress on validity of STG
plan
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#
Mathews, Charles W.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-10-04 Webb's leadership from Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC) perspective during
Mercury and Gemini programs, Webb and Gemini
4 crew at 1965 Paris Air
7106 Notes 10 pgs Powering Apollo
Show, Webb's disapproval of circumlunar Gemini concept,
Apollo Applications Program
(AAP) and Webb, lack of long-term planning under
Webb, NASA management
reorganizations after Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, George Low
replacing Joe Shea as head of
Apollo Spacecraft Program Office (ASPO), George
Mueller
Matranga, Gene J.
Ertel, Ivan 1971-07-28 Research and development (R&D) of the Lunar Landing
Research Vehicle (LLRV) at
the NASA Flight Research
Center (FRC)
1446 Transcript 40 pgs
Matranga,
Gene J.
Hallion,
Richard
1976-12-03 Flight Research Center
(FRC), NASA and Department of Defense
(DoD) relationship, X-series
experimental aircraft, F-100 century series aircraft,
aircraft testing, NASA test
pilots, and aircraft safety
6688 Transcript 58 pgs On the Frontier
Mattson, Axel T.
Bonney, Walter
1973-03-29 Wind tunnel research at Langley Memorial
Aeronautical Laboratory
(LMAL), development of wing flap to recover from
dives, X-1 and D-558 testing
1449 &
19511
Transcript 11 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
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May, Charles E.
McMahon, A. Michal
1986-05-14 May's education as a chemist, joining NACA Lewis
Research Center (LeRC) in
1953, difference after transition to NASA, process
for deciding research areas,
materials research at LeRC, change in LeRC center
culture from 1960s onward,
career trajectory for engineers at LeRC, engineers
as managers at LeRC,
increase in contracting, engineering union at LeRC
3578 Transcript 17 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Mazur, Daniel Green, Lomask, 1967-03-02 Technical operations of 1457 Transcript 9 pgs Vanguard: A Constance Milton Vanguard project at Atlantic History
Missile Range (AMR)
McCafferty, Jim 1969-11-15 Apollo astronaut training, 19534 Transcript 21 pgs
Riley D. Apollo simulators, spacecraft guidance and navigation,
Apollo 8 crew training
McCafferty, Riley D.
Ertel, Ivan 1971-01-28 Apollo astronaut training, Apollo simulators, Apollo 9
crew training, Apollo 11
crew training, Apollo 12 crew training, Apollo 13
flight, Apollo 14 crew
training
19534 Transcript 21 pgs
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McConnell, Dudley
Fries, Sylvia 1985-11-18, 1985-12-03
McConnell's research on tektites and applications to
reentry research at NACA,
hired at Lewis Research Center (LeRC) by George
Low, complexity of projects
in early NASA versus current, Echo satellite,
NACA/NASA engineering
traditions, work in NASA Administrator's office under
Thomas Paine and James
Beggs, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) office,
why people want to work for
NASA, value of space science applications
programs, division of
scientist versus engineer
3577 Transcript 24 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
McCormack, Emme, 1971-12-04 Before Sputnik, the National 1385 Notes 3 pgs Early NASA John W. Eugene Aeronautics and Space Act, History
space history (unpublished)
McCurdy,
Richard C.
Sherrod,
Robert
1973-12-07 Differences between long-
range planning at NASA and the private sector, drawbacks
of civil service rules during
personnel reductions on NASA research teams,
McCurdy being hired at
NASA, NASA contract selection procedures, role of
source evaluation board
(SEB), NASA change to incentive contracts from
award fee contracts, NASA
personnel management, drawbacks of government
management structure versus
private sector, McCurdy's experiences with Congress,
role of morale in
organizations
13287
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Transcript 24 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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McDivitt, James
Kluger, Jeffrey
1992-00-00 Apollo 9 flight, flying the lunar module (LM), role in
resolving Apollo 13 crisis,
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Apollo program manager
duties
8473 Transcript 29 pgs Lost Moon
McDonough, George
Guilmartin, Joe
1984-07-16 McDonough's first introduction to Space Shuttle
concept, Space Shuttle Main
Engine (SSME) instrumentation and control,
SSME testing for safety and
reliability, Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB)
parachute testing, Shuttle
design aerothermodynamic
testing, Shuttle thermal
protection system (TPS),
Shuttle reentry testing and concerns, advantages and
disadvantages of NASA
senior management being engineers, Marshall Space
Flight Center (MSFC)
management culture, SSME design for reusability
19886 Transcript 37 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
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McGolrick, Mauer, John 1984-10-24 Selection of Batelle 19886 Transcript 37 pgs Space Shuttle Joseph Memorial Institute as a
contractor for NASA launch
vehicle studies, Launch Vehicle Estimating Factors
reports for launch vehicle
users and mission planners, Battelle becoming a more
NASA-wide study contractor,
Batelle study of Skylab reentry debris hazard, 1967
Batelle study on reusable
launch vehicles, 1969 study on US space goals in relation
to national priorities, 20 year
long range plan study in 1970, results of study not
matching Space Shuttle
program planning, McGolrick's view that NASA
management selected Shuttle
as saleable "big program" rather for practical future
mission needs, Space Shuttle
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) study, Mathematica Shuttle
economic study, comparison of Office of Space Science
and Applications (OSSA),
Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF), and Office of
Advanced Research and
Technology (OART) management styles, Shuttle
phase A and phase B studies,
usefulness of Shuttle capability to retrieve and
repair satellites
Decision
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McKay, Christopher P.
Dick, Steven J.
1997-05-12 Influence of Viking on McKay's career,
extremophiles as analogues
for extraterrestrial life, modeling planetary
atmospheres, exobiology
instruments to Mars and Europa, Astrobiology
Institute
19505 Transcript 26 pgs SETI History (unpublished)
McKay,
David S.
Dick, Steven
J.
1997-11-19 Apollo astronaut geology
training, work with Apollo lunar samples, meteorite
analysis pre-"Mars rock",
"Mars rock" analysis at Johnson Space Center (JSC)
and conclusion the meteorite
contained fossilized bacteria
19925 Transcript 16 pgs SETI History
(unpublished)
McMurtry, Thomas
Hallion, Richard
1977-03-03 Supercritical wing program at Dryden Flight Research
Center (DFRC), supercritical
wing designer Richard Whitcomb, processs of
becoming a project pilot at
DFRC, qualities of a good test pilot
6688 Transcript 34 pgs On the Frontier
McMurtry, Thomas
McCurdy, Howard
1988-06-21 Flight research programs at Dryden Flight Research
Center (DFRC) in the 1960s
versus the 1980s, changing role of contractors, role of
NASA Headquarters and
centers, attitude towards risk,
impact of the Space Shuttle
program on DFRC
18722 Transcript 34 pgs Inside NASA
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McNair, Ann McMahon, A. Michal
1986-10-09 McNair's decision to major in math and physics, being the
only female in engineering
courses, being a coop student at the Army Ballistic Missile
Agency (ABMA) in 1957,
joining ABMA in 1958, working on moon landing
trajectories in 1958 and 1959,
ABMA becoming Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
in 1960s, trajectory analysis
and Apollo tracking station planning, work on Skylab
mission support, MSFC
mission operations office organization, McNair's
decision to stay in technical
engineering management rather than move up to
program management,
selection of managers at MSFC, McNair's
management style, definition
of science and engineering, McNair's view on possible
sexism at MSFC
3579 Transcript 34 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
McNamara, Lambright, W. 1991-09-26 Webb and McNamara, 7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Robert S. Henry McNamara's attitude towards manned space flight, Jerome
Wiesner
McNamara,
Robert S.
Hall, R.
Cargill
1999-03-25 National Reconnaissance
Office (NRO) origins and history, anti-satellite
weapons, reconnaissance
satellites, “missile gap”
18956 Transcript 9 pgs
McTigue,
John G.
Hallion,
Richard
1979-03-16 Lifting bodies and Space
Shuttle design
1410 Transcript 45 pgs
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McWilliams, Jamie
Lambright, W. Henry
1989-12-02 Webb's assistance in getting McWilliams a job in the
private sector, Webb's role at
the State Department during Truman administration,
Webb's relationship with
Congress while at the State Department, Paul Nitze,
Webb and Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, Webb as head of Republic Supply
Company, astronaut Tom
Stafford relaying a message from the astronauts to Webb
through McWilliams about
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
7106 Notes 12 pgs Powering Apollo
Meiling, Gen.
Richard
Link, Mae M. 1953-09-21 Role in 20th Air Force 1322 Notes 3 pgs
Meiling, Gen. Richard
Twitchell, Gen.
Link, Mae M. 1953-09-22 Medical background of 20th Air Force
1322 Notes 7 pgs
Melvin,
Leland
Rosenfeld,
Susan
2003-05-13 Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut
selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 2 pgs Educator
Astronaut
Program (EAP)
History (unpublished)
de Mendonca,
Fernando
Maharaj,
Ashok
2008-04-28 Fernando de Mendonca's role
as founding director of INPE, Brazil's civil space agency,
and NASA international
cooperation with Brazil
11183 Transcript 32 pgs NASA in the
World
Mengel, John
T.
Green,
Constance
Lomask,
Milton
1967-03-17 Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL) development of Minitrack tracking system for
Vanguard
1462 Transcript 3 pgs Vanguard: A
History
Merrill,
Grayson
Stilwell, Paul 1996-10-00 Loon missile 18958
& 19414
Transcript 24 pgs
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Merrill, Grayson
Hunley, John ("Dill")
2002-01-17 Relationship with Project Paperclip scientists and
experiences at Point Mugu,
Regulus missiles, Jupiter missiles, Polaris missiles,
Special Projects Office
18958 &
19414
Transcript 16 pgs Launch Vehicle Technology
Merwarth,
Ann
Fries, Sylvia 1986-06-03 Management of Hubble
Space Telescope (HST) program at Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC), HST
management problems between GSFC and Marshall
3577 Transcript 29 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
Space Flight Center (MSFC),
writing satellite control software at GSFC, starting a
daycare center at GSFC,
building the first onboard computer for a satellite,
contracting versus in-house
technical skill
Mettler,
Ruben F.
("Rub")
Butler, Carol 1999-04-07 Ramo-Wooldridge
Corporation, Thompson
Ramo Wooldridge, Inc.
(TRW), Guided Missile
Research Division, Space Technology Laboratory
(STL), US and USSR ICBM
programs, US IRBM program, Sputnik, Atlas and
Titan ICBMs, Thor and
Minuteman ICBMs, solid vs. liquid propellants, NASA
formation, NASA and USAF
contractor relations, Apollo Program
18957 Transcript 29 pgs
Mettler, Taylor, Alotta Bradley, 1999-11-05 Development of launch 18920 Transcript 86 pgs AAAS Also includes
Ruben F. George vehicles for the US military Symposium on video of ("Rub") and NASA Developing US symposium
Launch
Capability
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Milwitzky, Benjamin
Scherer, Lee R.
Nicks, Oran W.
1968-09-12 Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor projects, lunar exploration,
contract selection and
1580 Transcript 126 pgs
management, program management, experiment
selection, NASA/JPL/Hughes
Aircraft Company
Mitchell, Krige, John 2009-06-19 Project management and 11183 Transcript 22 pgs NASA in the
Robert international cooperation on World
the Cassini-Huygens mission
Molloy, Robert
1975-08-18 SE&I contracts for Apollo Applications Program
(AAP)/Skylab, AAP
organization, management, and original plans,
workshops for Skylab,
development of MDA, Air Force Manned Orbiting
Laboratory (MOL) vs. NASA
AAP, Earth Resources Experiments Program
(EREP) for Skylab
1498 Transcript 49 pgs
Mondale,
Walter
Damohn,
Mark
1998-07-23 Mondale’s role as Vice President during Jimmy
Carter’s administration, Apollo program, Space
Shuttle program, space
stations, space policy, Skylab reentry
18959 Transcript 22 pgs
Moore,
Michael
Dick, Steven
J.
2004-01-23 Management of Hubble
Space Telescope (HST)
program at NASA HQ, retrieval or disposal of HST
after no longer usable, plans
for third, fourth, and fifth HST servicing missions,
crew safety as a factor in
cancelling fifth HST servicing mission, decision to
cancel fifth HST servicing
mission
19820 Transcript 44 pgs Hubble Servicing
(unpublished)
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Moore, Sherrod, 1969-11-06 Charles Mathews, Milton 13287 Notes 1 pg Apollo History William Robert Rosen (unpublished)
Mordan, Gustav W.
"Bill"
McMahon, A. Michal
1986-10-08 Mordan's decision to become an aerospace engineer,
joining Marshall Space Flight
Center (MSFC) after college, spending a year at NASA
Headquarters as part of career
development program, work in project development at
MSFC, role of project
managers at MSFC, selection of managers at MSFC,
management of contractors,
value of working in government rather than
industry, impact of the
Challenger (STS-51L) accident at MSFC
3579 Transcript 44 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Morgan,
JoAnn
Launius,
Roger
2002-02-22 Role on launch team at
Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Kurt Debus, Wernher
von Braun, launch vehicle
testing, Project Mercury, Mercury 7 astronauts, Saturn
launch vehicles, Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire and investigation, end of the
Apollo program and effect on
workforce, Skylab, Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP),
Space Shuttle landing strip,
Space Shuttle program, commercialization
18960 Transcript 82 pgs
Moritz,
Bernard
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-10-10 Contract negotiation with
North American Aviation
(NAA) and Boeing TIE,
Grumman, Apollo command
and service module (CSM) contract to NAA, possible
termination of NAA contract
after Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, value of Boeing TIE contract
13287 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Moritz, Bernard
Lambright, W. Henry
1992-02-19 James Webb's renegotiation of North American Aviation
(NAA) contract after Apollo
1 (AS-204) fire
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Morrison,
David D.
Dick, Steven
J.
1997-11-18 Exobiology as a discipline,
exobiology program at Ames Research Center (ARC),
SETI at NASA, NASA
Origins program, difference
between astrobiology and
exobiology, Astrobiology
Institute at ARC, "Mars rock"
19505 Transcript 12 pgs SETI History
(unpublished)
Morrison, Emma N.
Lambright, W. Henry
1989-11-09 Webb's work at Gardner and Morrison law firm, Webb's
personality and ability to
make useful political connections, influence of
Southerners in Washington
during Truman administration
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Mortimer,
Robert
Brooks,
Courtney
1971-12-02 Development of Apollo lunar
module (LM) ascent engine
1510 Transcript 38 pgs Chariots for
Apollo
Moser, Thomas
Gruen, Adam 1988-04-28 Risk management re: space station, resource planning,
personnel, engineering and
program management
1513 Transcript 33 pgs Space Station Freedom History
(unpublished)
Moser,
Thomas
Gruen, Adam 1989-09-15 Departure from NASA,
Shuttle involvement, organization of space station
planning
1513 Transcript 57 pgs
Mrazek, William A.
Ray, Thomas 1973-04-11 Peenemunde, launch vehicles and hardware, design of
Centaur and Saturn, liquid
hydrogen as fuel, PERT, system engineering
1518 Transcript 36 pgs
Mueller,
George E.
Ray, Thomas Role of NASA contractors,
budget support, top NASA management after Dryden
died
1522 Transcript 48 pgs
Mueller, George E.
Putnam, William
1966-10-04 Gemini program, program management and
organization, Gemini as
foundation work for Apollo:
1522 Transcript 20 pgs
technical, organizational,
managerial
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Mueller,
George E.
van Riper,
Paul
1966-12-07 “All-up” testing concept 16203 Transcript 2 pgs
Mueller, Putnam, Ertel, Ivan 1967-06-27 Apollo Executive Group, 1522 Transcript 16 pgs George E. William Boeing and General Electric
(GE) roles, Lake Logan
agreement
Mueller,
George E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-11-19 Scientists' frustration with
Apollo program, Eugene Shoemaker, Lunar Receiving
Laboratory (LRL), evolution
of relationship between Office of Manned Space
Flight (OMSF) and NASA
centers, Mueller's decision to use "all-up" testing concept
in Apollo, knowledge of
danger of fire before Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Mueller's
decision to resign from
NASA
13287 Notes 8 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Mueller, George E.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-04-21 Reorganization of the Office of Manned Space Flight
(OMSF) in 1963, creating
multiple development paths to speed up Apollo program,
changing relationships
between NASA headquarters and centers for Apollo
program, Apollo program
management before Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Joe Shea,
effect of NASA budget cuts
for FY1968, change in relationship between Mueller
and NASA Administrator
13287, 13354,
19535
Transcript 26 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Also used for …Before This
Decade is Out
James Webb after Apollo 1 fire, Phillips Report, decision
before Apollo 1 fire to fly
only one Block I Apollo command module (CM),
post-Apollo planning under
Mueller, Congressional
hearings on Apollo 1 fire,
overloading of Apollo contractors
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Mueller,
George E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-08-19 Relationship with Joe Shea,
relations between NASA
Headquarters and manned spaceflight centers: Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC),
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), and Kennedy Space
Center (KSC)
13287 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Mueller, George E.
Sherrod, Robert
1973-03-20 Mueller's education in engineering, work in airborne
radar during World War II,
teaching at Ohio State University, switching from
academia to Space
Technology Laboratories (STL) to work on ballistic
missile program in 1950s,
Mueller hired at NASA as replacement for Brainerd
Holmes, inflation of
government salaries, resignation of Brainerd
Holmes, selection of General
Electric (GE) as Apollo systems engineering
contractor, determining the
number of Apollo lunar flights, Mueller using Apollo
8 flight as excuse to review
entire Apollo program, value of Apollo 8 flight, Mueller's
desire to make lunar landing
as soon as possible, scientists' desire for more time between
lunar flights and later change
of view, post-Apollo planning under Mueller
during 1967 and 1968
13287 &
13354
Transcript 34 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Also used for …Before This
Decade is Out
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Mueller, George E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-09-21 Mueller being hired by Webb to run Office of Manned
Space Flight (OMSF) and the
state of the Apollo program at the time, relationship
between Webb and Mueller,
"all-up" testing decision, Robert McNamara, Phillips
Report, effect of Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire on Webb, North American Aviation
(NAA) management,
recovery from Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, selection of
Thomas O. Paine as Webb's
successor, Mueller's view of Webb's strengths and
weaknesses as manager
7106 Notes 12 pgs Powering Apollo
Mueller, George E.
Bergen, Summer
Chick
1998-08-27 Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF), Apollo
program management,
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, all-up testing, Skylab,
resignation from NASA,
human spaceflight and science programs, Science
and Technology Advisory
Committee (STAC)
19535 Transcript 25 pgs …Before This Decade is Out
Muhleman,
Duane O.
Butrica,
Andrew
1994-05-19 Venus radar astronomy, test
of theory of general relativity by use of radar, Muhleman's
switch to radio astronomy,
Very Large Array (VLA), radar astronomy on Saturn's
rings, Mars radar astronomy
18919 Transcript 26 pgs To See the
Unseen
Muhleman, Duane O.
Butrica, Andrew
1994-05-27 Venus radar astronomy, Very Large Array (VLA),
discovery of ice on Mars via
radar astronomy, discovery of ice on Mercury via radar
astronomy, radar astronomy
of Saturn's moon Titan, attempt to upgrade Goldstone
Observatory, difficulty of
doing science at the Jet
18919 Transcript 64 pgs To See the Unseen
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
Near Earth Object (NEO) radar astronomy, Cassini
probe at Titan, future of radar
astronomy
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Mullaney,
Robert
Brooks,
Courtney
1971-12-10 Grumman design and
development of Apollo lunar module (LM),
Grumman/NASA/RASPO,
LM contract negotiations and program management
1555 Transcript 52 pgs Chariots for
Apollo
Murphy, Ralph W.
McMahon, A. Michal
1986-10-08 Murphy's decision to become an aeronautical engineer,
working in his father's
blacksmith shop, switch to industrial engineering after
serving in World War II,
hired at Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) as
part of Wernher von Braun's
program coordination staff, Explorer 1, work in Saturn S-
IV project office, work in
Skylab program office, contract management,
Marshall Space Flight Center
(MSFC) solar energy program, work on Hubble
Space Telescope (HST)
servicing planning, Murphy's lack of interest in becoming a
manager
3579 Transcript 41 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Murphy, Thomas
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-12-21 Formation of the Office of the Administrator executive
secretariat by Webb, Webb as
mentor for Murphy, Webb's abilities with administrative
aspects of running NASA,
Webb's work ethic, Webb's relationship with President
Lyndon Johnson
7106 Notes 10 pgs Powering Apollo
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Murphy, Thomas
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-02-22 Webb's characteristics as NASA Administrator,
Webb's Sustaining
Universities Program (SUP), Webb's relationship with
Congress, foundation of
National Academy of Public Administration
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
Musgrave,
Story
Chaikin,
Andrew
1998-10-27 Musgrave's selection as an
astronaut, astronaut office during the 1970s, astronaut
training, Skylab backup crew,
transition to Space Shuttle program, STS 6 flight,
extravehicular activity
(EVA), Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), Tracking and Data
Relay Satellite System
(TDRSS), adjusting to zero gravity, STS 61 flight, STS
80 flight, viewing the earth
from space, Space Shuttle reentry, Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) repair, STS
95 and John Glenn, retirement from NASA
18961 Transcript 127 pgs
Myers, Boyd Gang, Robert 1970-07-21 Site selection for Electronics
Research Center (ERC)
1565 Transcript 28 pgs
Myers, Dale D.
Ertel, Ivan Oakley, Ralph 1969-05-12 Apollo program, North American Aviation (NAA)
and Apollo, Apollo
spacecraft design, impact of Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
Apollo Applications Program
(AAP)
19536 Transcript 14 pgs
Myers, Dale
D.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-03-17 Phillips Report, Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire, Frank Borman and Eberhard Rees' roles as
consultants at North
American Aviation (NAA) after the Apollo 1 fire
13287 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Myers, Dale D.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-03-31 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and its effect on North American
Aviation (NAA),
"personalities" of Apollo command modules (CM),
preparations for Apollo 13
flight
13287 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Myers, Dale Emme, Ray, Thomas 1970-09-11 Apollo histories, Navaho 19536 Transcript 29 pgs
D. Eugene program, Apollo program
management at North
American Aviation (NAA)
Myers, Dale D.
Ray, Thomas 1970-10-14 Apollo program management, Joe Shea,
George Low, relationship
between NASA and
19536 Transcript 16 pgs
contractors
Myers, Dale
D.
Jones, A.R. 1973-06-28 Damage to Skylab space
station during launch, attempts to maintain Skylab
in usable condition and
4315,
7591, 19886
Transcript 17 pgs
temperature until Skylab 2 repair could be launched,
initial repair concepts to
lower Skylab temperature, sun shade systems
development and testing,
selection of parasol sun shade, creation of tools to
remove debris from Skylab
solar panels to increase available electrical power,
Skylab 2 crew repair
extravehicular activity (EVA)
Myers, Dale D.
Logsdon, John 1977-08-23 Space Shuttle decision process
7915 Transcript 39 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Myers, Dale
D.
Burke, James 1979-05-29 Apollo management at North
American Aviation (NAA), systems engineering, NAA-
NASA relations, Apollo 1
fire, Apollo 13 accident, 1970 budget cuts, and
pressures to land a scientist
on the Moon
4306 Transcript 22 pgs Copyrighted
by BBC
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Myers, Dale D.
Fries, Sylvia Saegesser, Lee
1988-01-05 U.S. and Soviet space programs, technology in the
Apollo program, NASA
relationship with contractors, technology in the Space
Shuttle program, and the
Challenger (STS-51L) accident
4307 Transcript 39 pgs
Naik, Nitan Rosenfeld,
Susan
2004-03-18 Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 8 pgs Educator
Astronaut Program (EAP)
History
(unpublished)
Namkoong,
David
McMahon, A.
Michal
1986-05-14 Namkoong's education in
mechanical engineering, work at the National Bureau
of Standards to improve
strain gauges, working for General Electric on heat
3578 Transcript 19 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
transfer in military jet
engines, hiring at Lewis Research Center (LeRC) in
1961, Systems for Nuclear
Auxiliary Power (SNAP) and nuclear electric propulsion,
organization of research at
LeRC, Brayton solar energy system research, difference
between basic and applied
research, Namkoong's switch during 1970s to Earth-based
solar energy applications,
move to advanced power systems for Space Station
Freedom (SSF), advancement
of Asian Americans at LeRC, management at LeRC
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Naugle, John E.
Logsdon, John 1970-07-16 1965 Office of Space Sciences and Applications
(OSSA) post-Apollo summer
study, beginning earth resources program from
weather satellite program
developments, interagency relations as a slowing factor
in space science applications
programs, long range earth resources program planning,
reorganizing NASA
planetary program management after
cancellation of Mars
1566 &
19887
Transcript 22 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Voyager, creation of Viking Mars lander program, Grand
Tour (later renamed
Voyager), NASA planetary program budget cuts
Naugle, John
E.
1978-04-17 Development of lunar and
planetary missions
1566 Transcript 14 pgs
Naugle, John
E.
Pitts, John 1980-02-21 Life sciences, chief scientist
in Office of Space Science and Applications (OSSA),
disagreements: engineers
versus bioscientists, gravity and physiology, life sciences
organization under Office of
Space Sciences (OSS)
1566 Transcript 26 pgs The Human
Factor
Naugle, John DeVorkin, 1980-08-20 Balloon studies of cosmic 1566 Transcript 80 pgs
E. David rays and high energy physics,
NERV program
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Naugle, John E.
Mauer, John 1984-10-30 Space station considered next logical step after Apollo by
Office of Space Sciences and
Applications (OSSA), OSSA recommendations to 1969
Space Task Group (STG),
NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine's arguments
for visionary program
resulting in easy pass for realistic missions, opposition
to Space Shuttle within
OSSA and scientific community, Naugle's view
that manned space flight was
politically necessary and Shuttle was best option given
the budget climate of the
1970s, Office of Advanced Research and Technology as
outsiders during post Apollo
planning, creating OSSA requirements for Shuttle,
transfer of expendable launch
vehicle (ELV) program from OSSA to Office of Manned
Space Flight (OMSF), why the Department of Defense
(DoD) used the Shuttle so
rarely for satellite payloads, George Mueller as "empire
builder", delays to Galileo
Jupiter probe due to shifting between Shuttle and ELV as
launcher, management
relationships between NASA Associate Administrators
during the 1970s, transferring
the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) to
Marshall Space Flight Center
(MSFC), creation of a NASA budget, change in Office of
Management and Budget
(OMB) from government systems management agency
16789 Transcript 23 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
to budget cutting agency,
politicization of NASA in the 1970s and 1980s
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Naugle, John
E.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-11-07 Webb's uses of program
reviews, Webb's interest in the policy and management
of NASA rather than the
technical aspects, Webb's interest in improving status
of NASA science and
scientists, cancellation of Mars Voyager and Webb's
use of it as catalyst for long-
range planning
7106 Notes 7 pgs Powering Apollo
Needell, Allan Lambright, W. Henry
1990-02-23 Lloyd Berkner and Webb, use of outside experts
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
Nein, Gruen, Adam 1987-07-30 Space platform program as 18977 Notes 2 pgs Space Station
Maxwell part of space station Freedom History (unpublished)
Nelson, Bobby D.
Fries, Sylvia 1987-03-11 Nelson's work in US Army Signal Corps in mid 1950s,
education as an electrical
engineer, hired by Army Ballistic Missile Agency,
Jupiter launch vehicle testing,
designing launch pads for Saturn launch vehicles,
transfer to Kennedy Space
Center (KSC), switch from hands-on engineering to
engineering management for
systems engineering during Apollo program, KSC land
management, requiring
engineers to become managers to advance their
careers
3578 Transcript 19 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Neubert, Erich Ray, Thomas 1973-04-04 Transition from Army Ballistic Missile Agency
(ABMA) to NASA,
organization of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
Saturn development teams
1574 Transcript 56 pgs
and development of Saturn 5
launch vehicle
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Neustadt,
Richard
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-11-15 White House staff problems
during Truman administration, appointment
of Webb to head the Bureau
of Budget (BoB), Webb as head of BoB, Webb as
personnel manager, Webb
and Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Webb's skills as a
7106 Notes 7 pgs Powering Apollo
manager
Newell,
Homer E.
Emme,
Eugene
Atkins,
Charles
1966-07-27 NASA's relationship with
NAS Space Science Board, space research by NACA and
Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL), activities of International Geophysical
Year (IGY) national
committee
4494 Transcript 6 pgs
Newell, Emme, Hall, R. 1968-03-05 Ranger Project history, 4494 Notes 3 pgs Lunar Impact
Homer E. Eugene Cargill problems with JPL & management of Ranger 5370
Project
Newell,
Homer E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-01-23 Medical and psychological
results of space flight, Ranger, Lunar Orbiter,
Surveyor, Nuclear Engine for
Rocket Vehicle Applications (NERVA)
13287 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Newell,
Homer E.
Logsdon, John Cohen,
Nathaniel
1970-07-15 Planning Coordination
Steering Group (PCSG) and Space Task Group (STG)
impact on planning for Space
Shuttle and station programs and planning for manned
Mars mission
4494
& 19887
Transcript 28 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
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Newell, Homer E.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-07-22 Scientists' satisfaction (or lack thereof) with Apollo 14
flight, use of Lunar
Receiving Laboratory (LRL) after end of requirement for
Apollo astronaut quarantine,
Lunar and Planetary Missions Board dissatisfaction with
1969 Space Task Group
(STG) report, Eugene Shoemaker, Wilmot Hess,
management of LRL,
formation of Space Science Board (SSB), involvement of
President's Science Advisory
Committee (PSAC) role in Apollo program, Newell at
White House with President
Lyndon Johnson during Ranger 7 landing, NASA
Administrator James Webb's
support of NASA unmanned science programs, criticism
of Apollo program by
scientists
13287 Transcript 21 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Newell, Homer E.
Ray, Thomas 1971-12-23 Silverstein committee decision on hydrogen
technology for launch
vehicles and development of Saturn class launch vehicle,
Centaur and Juno launch
vehicle programs, NAS Space Science Board support
for manned space flight,
cancellation of Apollo 18, 19, and 20 missions
4494 Transcript 16 pgs
Newell,
Homer E.
Emme,
Eugene
Roland, Alex 1974-01-07 Atmospheric research by
NRL Rocket Sonde Research
Branch, HATV,
establishment of Rocket and Satellite Research Panel
(RSRP) or “V-2 Panel"
NACA policy on space research and satellite
development, NACA
13459 Transcript 36 pgs Early NASA
History
(unpublished)
Subcommittee on the Upper
Atmosphere, Project Vanguard, establishment of
NASA space science
program and GSFC and management of its
contractors, PR ploy, Project
Kangaroo
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Newell,
Homer E.
Wright,
Monte
1974-03-14 NASA organization and
McKinsey study, space science organization and
policy, life science program,
balance between engineering and science, scientist-
astronauts for Apollo lunar
landings, Ranger Project, NASA cooperation with
academia, NASA HQ
relationship with field centers, long range planning,
NASA role in services and
research, Newell’s contribution to NASA
science program, Planning
Coordination Steering Group (PCSG) activities,
development of Applications
Technology Satellites (ATS), benefits of working as a
scientist in federal
4494 Transcript 66 pgs
government
Newell,
Homer E.
Benson,
Charles
1975-07-21 Office of Space Science and
Applications (OSSA) manned space flight
experiments, Advanced
Orbiting Solar Observatory (AOSO) experiments,
cancellation, and
consolidation into Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM),
manned vs. unmanned space
flight, OSSA reactions to Skylab and Voyager budget
cuts, comparison of USAF
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
4494 Transcript 15 pgs
(MOL) and Skylab projects,
Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF)-OSSA Apollo
Applications Program (AAP)
experiments, White House support for space program
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Newell,
Homer E.
Compton,
David
1976-04-21 Impact of negative comments
by scientists on manned space flight, impact of
engineering requirements of
scientific experiments on crew safety, diversion of
funds from science to
manned space flight, science in Apollo and Skylab
missions, scientist-astronauts,
cancellation and assimilation of Advanced Orbiting Solar
Observatory (AOSO)
experiments into Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM),
Office of Space Science
(OSS) involvement in post-
Apollo planning, reliability
vs. costs, coordination of
recommendations of internal and external advisory groups,
President's Science Advisory
Council (PSAC), National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Space Science Board on
Apollo Applications Program (AAP) science
4495 Transcript 40 pgs
Newell,
Homer E.
Ezell, Edward 1977-05-25 NASA views of Mars
missions in 1958, Johnson Space Center (JSC) attempts
to started manned Mars
program in late 1960s and its affect on robotic Mars
program, post-Apollo and
post-Viking lunar and Mars program
4495 Transcript 14 pgs On Mars
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Newell, Homer E.
Pitts, John 1980-02-22 Organization of Life Sciences division, coordination of
projects between Office of
Space Science and Applications (OSSA), Office
of Advanced Research and
Technology (OART), Office of Life Sciences, and Office
of Manned Space Flight
(OMSF); Life Sciences Study Task Group, Biosatellite
Project, Glass study on
manned space flight medical, bioscience, exobiology, and
space physics research
4495 Transcript 27 pgs The Human Factor
Newell, Homer E.
Hirsch, Richard
1980-07-17 Newell's work at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
during WWII, NRL upper
atmospheric research, Rocket and Satellite Research Panel
(RSRP) “V-2 Panel”, Vanguard satellite project, International Geophysical
Year (IGY) program,
reactions to Sputnik launch, creation of NASA,
development, management,
and funding of space science programs; relationship
between science and manned
space flight, international cooperation, Orbiting
Astrophysical Observatory
(OAO) project, long term planning, impact of Vietnam
War and economy on space
missions, planning for Space
Telescope (Hubble), Space
Shuttle, and planetary
exploration projects
4495 Transcript 72 pgs Copyrighted by the Center
for History of
Physics, American
Institute of
Physics
Nichols, Mark R.
Bonney, Walter
1973-03-29 Research at Langley Memorial Aeronautical
Laboratory (LMAL) on
aerodynamics, propellers, aircraft engines, wind
1578 &
19511
Transcript 11 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
tunnels, development of dive
recovery flap, supersonic flight
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Nicks, Oran
W.
Hall, R.
Cargill
1968-08-26 Ranger Project, Ranger and
Apollo program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
Agena launch vehicle, project
management
18963 Transcript 20 pgs Lunar Impact
Nicks, Oran W.
Milwitzky, Benjamin
Scherer, Lee 1968-09-12 Lunar Orbiter and Surveyor projects, lunar exploration,
contract selection and
management, program management, experiment
selection, relationship
between NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
and Hughes Aircraft
Company
1580 Transcript 162 pgs
Nitze, Paul Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-06-06 Nitze's view of Webb's tenure
at the State Department during the Truman
administration
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
North, Warren J.
Emme, Eugene
Grimwood, James
1973-08-27 Early NASA organization, astronaut selection, Atlas and
Redstone launch vehicles,
SAM control, Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) as
manned space flight training
center, concerns re the effects of radiation on astronauts
1608 Transcript 46 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
Norton, Lt.
Col. John A.
Link, Mae M. 1951-08-13 Activation of 1st forward
medical air evacuation flight and 1st epidemiological flight
1322 Notes 2 pgs
Nysmith, C. Robert
Fries, Sylvia 1985-12-05 NASA Administrator James Beggs' departure from NASA
following indictment on
fraud charges (later dropped)
4259 Notes 4 pgs
Oberright,
John
Fries, Sylvia 1986-06-03 Research versus applied
engineering, Oberright's work in thermal design for
spacecraft at Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC), Engineer in Training
3577 Transcript 20 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
program, space station
management at GSFC
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O'Brien,
Michael F.
Krige, John 2009-03-30 O'Brien's role as Assistant
Administrator, Office of External Relations
11183 Transcript 42 pgs NASA in the
World
O'Connor, Bryan D.
Dick, Steven J.
2004-11-01 Crew risk on mission to Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) versus International
Space Station (ISS), deorbiting HST safely,
modeling risks for human
spaceflight missions, O'Connor's motivation in
becoming an astronaut
19820 Transcript 23 pgs Hubble Servicing (unpublished)
Odom, James
B.
Guilmartin,
Joe
1984-07-13 Space Shuttle external tank
(ET) contractor selection, development of ET, ET ice
and insulation problems, ET
testing, Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF)
19887 Transcript 19 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
Odom, James B.
Whalen, Jessie
1988-02-09 Space Shuttle external tank (ET), ice and insulation
problems on ET, similarity of
ET to Saturn S-II stage, ET weight reduction program,
Michoud Assembly Facility
(MAF)
19887 Transcript 19 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Odom, James
B.
Gruen, Adam 1989-01-06 Summer 1988 funding
release, Congressional approval of budget, writing
acceptable NASA budget
without cutting necessary expenses
1629 Transcript 37 pgs
O'Donnell, Kenneth
Sherrod, Robert
1971-05-13 White House relationship with NASA especially
between President Kennedy
and James Webb, placing Richard Callaghan at NASA
as "White House's man" at
NASA
13288 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
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O'Keefe, Sean Dick, Steven J.
2004-04-22 Influence of Columbia (STS-107) accident and Columbia
Accident Investigation Board
(CAIB) recommendations on decision to cancel fifth
Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) servicing mission, plan for announcement of
decision, leak of decision
after President George W. Bush’s announcement of the Vision for Space Exploration
(VSE), revised announcement of
cancellation, public reaction
to cancellation of HST servicing mission, difficulties
with Space Shuttle Return to
Flight (RTF) efforts
19820 Transcript 27 pgs Hubble Servicing (unpublished)
O'Keefe, Sean Dick, Steven J.
2004-10-29 Timeline of decision to cancel fifth Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) servicing
mission, value of HST to
science community, impact
of the Columbia Accident
Investigation Board (CAIB) report on HST servicing
cancellation, decision to
consider robotic servicing of HST, safely deorbiting HST,
importance of CAIB to
NASA culture
19820 Transcript 34 pgs Hubble Servicing (unpublished)
Oliver, Dawn Rosenfeld,
Susan
2003-07-25 Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 6 pgs Educator
Astronaut Program (EAP)
History
(unpublished)
Olson, Walter T.
Sloop, John 1974-05-30 Early rocket fuel (1948 on), suggestions to NACA for
rocket engine propulsion,
Project ZIP, engine development
1635 Transcript 22 pgs Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion
Fuel, 1945-1959
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Olson, Walter T.
Sloop, John 1974-07-11 Education and career, NACA 1942 on, Project ZIP,
propulsion research,
physicists and chemists, hydrogen vs. boron hydrides
1635 Transcript 65 pgs Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion
Fuel, 1945-1959
Olson, Walter
T.
Dawson,
Virginia P.
1984-07-16 Langley Research Center
(LaRC), altitude effect on combustion, change from
basic research to mission-
specific, other industry competition with government
research
1635 Transcript 34 pgs Engines and
Innovation
Ordin, Paul M.
Sloop, John 1974-05-30 Work at Lewis Research Center (LeRC) on aircraft
fuel additives, move to rocket
propellant research, research in liquid propellants,
handling liquid fluorine,
research in hydrogen-powered aircraft
6688 Transcript 74 pgs Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion
Fuel, 1945-1959
Ordway, Dick, Steven 2005-02-14 NASA career highlights 19828 Transcript 26 pgs NASA Culture
Frederick I. J. Study
(unpublished)
Ordyanskaya, Ada
Gerovitch, Slava
2008-08-28 Ordyanskaya's role as consultant psychiatrist to
Soviet space program,
dealing with cosmonauts who had psychological issues
during space flights
19860 Transcript 2 pgs Voices from the Soviet Space
Program
Ostrander,
Maj. Gen. Donald
1972-07-10 Office of Launch Vehicle
Programs (OLVP), USAF and NASA cooperation,
ABMA, OLVP/ Office of
Space Flight Programs coordination, launch site
selection, Atlantic Missile
Range (AMR), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC),
Abe Silverstein and Wernher
von Braun
1645 Transcript 47 pgs
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Ostro, Steven, J.
Butrica, Andrew
1994-05-18 Ostro's work as a ceramics engineer, switch to radar
astronomy, radar astronomy
of Jupiter's Galilean moons, radar astronomy of Saturn's
rings, asteroid radar
astronomy, radar astronomy at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL), asteroid research at
Arecibo and Goldstone
18919 Transcript 46 pgs To See the Unseen
Ostro, Steven,
J.
Butrica,
Andrew
1994-05-25 Asteroid radar astronomy,
origin of Ostro's interest in asteroid astronomy,
discovery of Near Earth
Objects (NEO), use of Doppler radar in asteroid
radar astronomy, bistatic
radar astronomy, Spaceguard
18919 Transcript 51 pgs To See the
Unseen
O'Sullivan, William J.
Morse, Edward
1964-08-28 Langley Research Center (LaRC), Echo 1 satellite
1646 Transcript 72 pgs
Ottinger,
Wayne
Ertel, Ivan 1971-07-27 Lunar Landing Research
Vehicle (LLRV)
development and test flights
at Flight Research Center
(FRC) and Ellington AFB, X-15 project and test flights,
roles of Joe Walker and Neil
Armstrong as LLRV test pilots, use of LLRV data for
V/SOL aircraft
1650 Transcript 109 pgs
Overacker, William E.
Launius, Roger
1989-12-18 Air Force career, Military Airlift Command, Israeli
airlift, 1978 evacuation of
Iran, Lebanon civil war and Beirut embassy bombing,
airlift operations
18964 Transcript 51 pgs
Owens, Frank Rosenfeld,
Susan
2003-09-04 Educator Astronaut (EA)
program, EA astronaut selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 9 pgs Educator
Astronaut Program (EAP)
History
(unpublished)
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Page, Thornton
Swenson, Lloyd S.
1971-04-30 Page's assignment in training astronauts for Lunar landing
flights on astronomy, UV
camera to study interplanetary gases and solar
wind from the moon, NASA
MSC astronomy program, changes in astronomy
because of space program
1655 Transcript 44 pgs Chariots for Apollo
Paige, Hilliard Lambright,
William H.
1991-05-29 Role of General Electric
(GE) as an Apollo program support contractor for safety,
Paige's relationship with
NASA Administrator James Webb, Apollo 1 (AS-204)
fire and investigation, Joe
Shea, Harrison "Stormy" Storms
7106 Transcript 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Paine,
Thomas O.
Sherrod,
Robert
1968-11-05 Paine's military service,
politics, education,
background, recruitment to
NASA, events leading up to C-prime mission, lunar orbit
for Apollo 8 decision,
reactions after six weeks as NASA Deputy Administrator
13288 Notes 8 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Paine, Thomas O.
Sherrod, Robert
1969-01-23 Selection of Apollo 11 crew, lunar module (LM), space
station, NASA FY1970
budget, Russian space program, decision to send
Apollo 8 on circumlunar
flight, President Lyndon Johnson
13288 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
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Paine, Thomas O.
Baker, T. Harri
1969-03-29 Paine's appointment as NASA Deputy Administrator
and relationship with James
Webb, Webb’s retirement, appointment as Acting
Administrator, Apollo 8
decision, mission, and celebrations; NASA FY1970
budget, relationship with
President Lyndon and Mrs. Johnson, transition from
Johnson to Nixon
Administrations involvement and interest in urban affairs
4185 Transcript 29 pgs Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral History
Project
Copyrighted by Johnson
Library
Paine,
Thomas O.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-05-13 Obtaining support for space
program from Congress and Nixon Administration,
decision to send Apollo 8 on
a circumlunar mission, Bill Anders' appointment as
executive secretary of
National Space Council, possibility of having an
unmanned lunar module
(LM) landing during Apollo 10 flight, MIT student
protests of classified research
and future of Lincoln and Draper Laboratories
13215,
13219, 13288
Notes 5 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Paine,
Thomas O.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-10-13 Frank Borman, usefulness to
NASA of conflict between scientists and engineers on
Apollo program, conflict in
American society
13288 Notes 5 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Paine, Thomas O.
Emme, Eugene
1970-07-09 Joe Shea’s criticism of Apollo program, negotiations
on international cooperation
and use of Space Shuttle, Congressional debate on
NASA FY1971 appropriation
and NASA lobbying efforts, lack of public support for
space program, GAO report
on contract selection for Application Technology
Satellites (ATS), trip to
Europe to discuss European participation in US space
program, preparation and
commence. Address at Worcester Polytechnic on
“squareland” and “potland”; development of supercritical wing
4186, 19887,
20007
Transcript 39 pgs
Paine,
Thomas O.
Emme,
Eugene
1970-08-03 Paine’s resignation as NASA Administrator, James Webb’s resignation and White House
“appointment” of Paine as Acting Administrator, President Johnson and
President Nixon roles in
space program, transition from Johnson to Nixon
Administration, Paine's
relationship with Lee DuBridge, Bob Mayo, and
Peter Flanigan; role of Vice
President Agnew and National Aeronautics and
Space Council (NASC)
4186
& 19887
Transcript 39 pgs
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Paine, Thomas O.
Logsdon, John Cohen, Nathaniel
1970-08-12 Space Task Group (STG) and post-Apollo planning,
Wernher von Braun’s
concept for manned Mars landing and reaction to it,
possibilities for increased
international cooperation, relationship with President
Nixon, NASA FY1970-1971
budget process and constraints on program
4185 &
19887
Transcript 21 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Paine, Thomas O.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-08-14 Paine’s tenure at NASA, Apollo 13 flight and accident,
Saturn V launch vehicle,
Lunar Module (LM), LIFE contract with astronauts,
flexibility of NASA as an
agency, transition between Johnson administration and
Nixon administration from
NASA perspective, selection of George Low as NASA
deputy administrator, Apollo
11 plaque, bringing Wernher von Braun to NASA
Headquarters for long range
planning, Phillips Report
13216 &
13288
Transcript 44 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Used for "Before This
Decade Is
Out"
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Paine, Thomas O.
Emme, Eugene
1970-09-03 Presence of Rev. Ralph Albernathy at Apollo 11
launch, relationship between
Kennedy family and NASA during Paine's tenure, Apollo
11 splashdown and presence
of President Nixon, plaque on Apollo 11 LM, naming
Apollo 11 Command and
Service Module (CSM) and Lunar Module (LM), NASA
Apollo 11 postflight dinner in
California, prediction of Soviet manned landing on
moon, speculation on mission
of Luna 15 probe, choice of Space Shuttle over manned
Mars landing, prediction of
US decline and Soviet prominence in space
4186 &
19887
Transcript 33 pgs
Paine, Thomas O.
Logsdon, John 1970-09-03 Instructions for development of innovative plans for post
Apollo program, 1969 Space
Task Group (STG) and role of Lee DuBridge and Vice
President Spiro Agnew,
instructions to Wernher von Braun to prepare a manned
Mars mission plan for
submission to STG and their reaction, cuts in NASA
FY1971 budget by BoB and
White House
4185 Transcript 19 pgs
Paine,
Thomas O.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-09-10 Difficulty of injuring self in
space flight and on moon, Paine disobeying James
Webb on leaving lunar orbit
option for C-prime mission (Apollo 8), Frank Borman,
Russians, Skylab, Julian
Scheer of Public Affairs on Apollo 11 book, dangers of
space flight, Apollo program,
working with White House on appointment of deputy
13288 Transcript 45 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
administrator, speech at
Worcester, Paris air show, space station, Fairchild-Hiller
contract
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Paine,
Thomas O.
Webb, James
E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-10-07 Paine's role as NASA
administrator, Neil Armstrong's tenure at NASA
Headquarters, Paine's World
War II service, birth order of
astronauts, Nixon's views on
the space program, relations
with the press, scientists and the space program, program
management within
government, Apollo command module (CM)
contract at North American
Aviation
13216,
13269, 13288
Transcript 18 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Also used for
…Before This Decade is Out
Paine, Thomas O.
Garratt, Arthur
1975-08-15 Comparison of manned lunar landing and development of
space colonies with discovery
of the New World by Norsemen and later
4185 &
19887
Transcript 23 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
colonization by Europeans,
test pilot astronauts vs. scientist astronauts, cost of
technological progress and
challenge of a “crisis” situation, future of space
exploration (Space Shuttle,
space station, earth resource satellites, Pioneer),
international space program,
impact of technology on society
Paine, Thomas O.
Burke, James 1979-05-14 Congressional support for Apollo program, Apollo 6
test flight, Apollo 8 decision,
James Webb’s retirement, Nixon Administration, debate
between scientist and
engineers in purpose and planning for Apollo lunar
landing, cuts in Apollo
Program, relationship with
4185 Transcript 34 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
Bureau of Budget (BoB),
Soviet Phobos probe and mission to Mars
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Paine,
Thomas O.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-04-06 Paine's selection as Deputy
Administrator of NASA, President Lyndon Johnson
attending a birthday party for
Webb, Webb's resignation and Paine selected as acting
NASA Administrator,
decision to send Apollo 8 on a circumlunar mission,
differences between Webb
and Paine's management styles, Paine's view of Webb
as a model public servant
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
Parker, William A.
Merrifield, Robert
1967-05-16 Space Task Group (STG) procurement, working on
three manned spaceflight
programs simultaneously, STG relocation to Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC),
locating temporary offices
during MSC construction
18994 Transcript 14 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Parkinson,
Claire
Ross-Nazzal,
Jennifer
2008-06-26 National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR), sea ice modeling,
sea ice and global warming,
climate change, Al Gore Jr., Aqua satellite, Earth
Observing System (EOS),
North Pole expedition, earth science outreach activities
19861 Transcript 33 pgs NASA Experts
Oral History Project
Parkinson, John B.
Keller, Michael
1966-12-20 NACA career, seaplane hull design, NACA during WWII,
testing moving ground belt
for cars in wind tunnels for
Ford Motor Company
1659 Notes 2 pgs Kitty Hawk to Muroc
Parks, Robert
J.
Bane, Don 1987-06-18 Parks' hiring by Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Corporal missile, rocket
guidance systems, Sergeant
missile, JPL Planetary Program, Mariner Venus
18965 Transcript 23 pgs
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DMS
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Format Length Source/Project Copyright
and Notes
Parsons, John 1967-06-16 Parsons' NACA career, design of 19 foot pressure
wind tunnel
1661 Notes 2 pgs
Paules,
Granville
Gruen, Adam 1987-10-27 Paules' career at NASA 6689 Transcript 66 pgs NASA Culture
Study (unpublished)
Paup, John W. Ertel, Ivan 1966-06-07 Early management and organization of Apollo
Program at North American
Aviation (NAA), NACA’s proposal, decision of lunar
orbit rendezvous (LOR)
using lunar module (LM) over direct landing,
coordination between
Government and NAA employees
1665 Transcript 24 pgs
Peck, Robert
K.
Merrifield,
Robert
1967-10-04 First NASA office in
Houston
18994 Transcript 2 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Pehrson, Gordon O.
Mason, John, Jr.
1974-02-05 Polaris missile 19414 Transcript 66 pgs In Gordon O. Pehrson Navy
folder
Pendleton,
Yvonne
Dick, Steven
J.
1997-00-00 Role of comets and asteroids
in the origin of life on Earth, exobiology as a discipline,
exobiology program at Ames
Research Center (ARC), "Mars rock"
19505 Transcript 13 pgs SETI History
(unpublished)
Pennino, Walter A.
Saegesser, Lee
Garber, Stephen
1997-02-19 SSI, astronaut PR tours with Fred Haise, Neil Armstrong,
and John Glenn; Apollo 15
crew stamp scandal, working relationship with Julian
Scheer, memories of Deke
Slayton and Walter Cronkite, audience with Pope Paul VI,
meeting cosmonauts in
USSR, Celestis commercial launch program, Apollo 11
world tour
1678 Transcript 43 pgs
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Petrone, Various 1970-05-19 Apollo program, program 1691 Transcript 6 pgs Apollo History Used for Rocco A. management, Hugh Dryden, & Workshop "Before This
“all-up” testing 19538 Decade Is
Out"
Petrone,
Rocco A.
Emme,
Eugene
Ray, Thomas 1970-09-17 NASA organization,
management of centers, control over contractors,
position as launch director,
integration of contractors and
government workers to form
a team
1692 Transcript 122 pgs
Petrone, Rocco A.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-09-25 How small problems can critically effect a space flight,
failure of heater switch in
oxygen tank during Apollo 13, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
and investigation, factors in
Apollo 1 fire, value of "all-up" testing, POGO and
Apollo 6 flight, Kennedy
Space Center (KSC) launch operations, Apollo support
contractors, integration of
effort between contractors and NASA during Apollo
program, Apollo 12 launch
decision, making the decision to launch a space flight
13218 &
13288
Transcript & Notes
46 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Petrone, Rocco A.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-07-30 President Kennedy's 1963 speech to the United Nations
on cooperation with the
Soviet Union and the speech's effect on NASA, Joe
Shea, NASA Administrator
James Webb
13288 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Petrone, Ray, Thomas 1972-05-25 Management of Apollo 1692 Transcript 82 pgs
Rocco A. program, cooperation with Air Force and contractors
Petrone, Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 accident and Skylab 1692 Transcript 6 pgs Rocco A. 2 rescue mission &
7591
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Petrone, Rocco A.
Sherrod, Robert
1974-07-29 Which person would walk on the moon first on Apollo 11
flight, Apollo 9 flight, Apollo
10 flight, procedures tried on Apollo 9 and Apollo 10
which were used during
Apollo 13 flight, Apollo 13 flight, Apollo 17 launch hold,
Apollo 13 oxygen tanks,
Space Shuttle program
13218 &
13288
Transcript 45 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Petrone,
Rocco A.
Sherrod,
Robert
1974-09-26 Construction of Kennedy
Space Center (KSC), crawler transporter, Debus-Davis
study, Vehicle Assembly
Building (VAB), launch preparations needed for
Nova, Apollo launch
operations, Apollo 12 launch decision, Apollo 17 launch
delay
13288 Transcript 30 pgs Apollo
Expeditions to the Moon
Petrone, Rocco A.
Sherrod, Robert
1974-10-08 Kennedy Space Center (KSC) range safety during
Apollo, unmanned Saturn 1
flights, Pegasus micrometeoroid satellites,
unmanned Saturn 1B flights,
unmanned Saturn 5 flights, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
decision to fly humans on
next Saturn 5 flight after Apollo 6, decision to send
Apollo 8 on circumlunar
mission, General Electric (GE) Apollo integration
contract, Army Corps of
Engineers role in construction of KSC, Flight
Readiness Test (FRT),
Countdown Demonstration Test (CDDT), KSC ground
team safety
13218 &
13288
Transcript 52 pgs Apollo Expeditions to
the Moon
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Petrone, Rocco A.
Burke, James 1979-05-22 Development, construction and testing of Saturn 5 launch
vehicle, Petrone's position as
launch director during Apollo program, responsibilities of
launch control team,
cooperation with contractors, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
1692 Transcript 27 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
Petrone,
Rocco A.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-11-30 Petrone's first meeting with
Webb during Webb's 1961 tour of Kennedy Space
Center (KSC), Webb's ability
think strategically, visits by foreign dignitaries to KSC,
Webb and Brainerd Holmes,
Webb's running of Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire investigation,
relationship between NASA
and the Department of Defense (DoD)
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Pettengill, Gordon H.
Butrica, Andrew
1993-09-28 Pettengill's work on missile detection radar, Venus radar
astronomy, management of
Arecibo Observatory, radar test of theory of relativity,
Haystack Observatory,
Pioneer Venus radar experiment, Magellan radar
experiment
18919 Transcript 77 pgs To See the Unseen
Pettengill,
Gordon H.
Butrica,
Andrew
1993-09-29 Use of Doppler radar in
astronomy, development of planetary radar astronomy,
interest of geologists in
planetary radar astronomy, scientific societies and
journals for radar
astronomers
18919 Transcript 27 pgs To See the
Unseen
Pettengill, Gordon H.
Butrica, Andrew
1994-05-04 Pioneer Venus radar experiment, Magellan radar
experiment, future space
missions with radar astronomy involvement,
Venera 15 and 16, Jupiter
radar astronomy
18919 Transcript 36 pgs To See the Unseen
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Petynia, William
Guilmartin, Joe
Mauer, John 1985-09-09 Space Shuttle design, Space Shuttle external tanks (ET),
Space Shuttle orbiters,
Grumman Corporation study contract, delta wing vs
straight wing orbiters, Space
Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs)
18966 &
19887
Transcript 28 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Philips,
Ronald J.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-06-27 Webb's characteristics as a
manager
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Philips, Ronald J.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-07-17 Webb's desire to insulate NASA from criticism and
direct it toward himself,
Webb founding the National Academy of Public
Administration (NAPA),
Webb on Municipal Manpower Commission
during 1950s, Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire investigation and Phillips Report, Webb and
Robert Seamans, Webb and
President Lyndon Johnson,
Webb's resignation, lack of
post-Apollo planning under
Webb, Webb and the media, Webb's family life
7106 Notes 16 pgs Powering Apollo
Phillips, Lt. Gen. Samuel
C.
Swenson, Lloyd S.
Ray, Thomas 1970-07-22 Minuteman program, Phillips' assignment to NASA,
program management, US
Air Force (USAF) officers in NASA, Apollo program, “all-
up” testing, Phillips Report, Apollo systems integration, Apollo 8 flight, NASA – Congressional relations,
Saturn launch vehicle S-II
program at North American
Aviation (NAA), NASA – contractor relations
1701 &
19539
Transcript 69 pgs Chariots for Apollo
Also used for …Before This
Decade is Out
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Phillips, Lt. Gen. Samuel
C.
Swenson, Lloyd S.
Ray, Thomas 1970-09-25 US Air Force (USAF) career, Apollo program
management, Apollo
spacecraft design, NASA – contractor relations, North
American Aviation (NAA),
Apollo mission operations, Apollo program costs, role of
Bellcomm
1701 &
19539
Transcript 46 pgs Chariots for Apollo
Phillips, Lt.
Gen. Samuel C.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-07-02 Phillips being hired at NASA
by George Mueller, Relationship of program
managers in the centers
during Apollo Program, Joe Shea, investigation of North
American performance on
Apollo contracts, selection of astronaut crews, Pentagon
Papers, the Phillips Report
13219
& 13288
Transcript 28 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Phillips, Lt. Gen. Samuel
C.
Ordway, Frederick
1988-02-08 Wernher von Braun, Phillips' knowledge of von Braun
prior to joining NASA, von
Braun's management style,
Marshall Space Flight Center
(MSFC) organization during
Apollo, von Braun's personality, von Braun's
move to NASA Headquarters
19408 Transcript 8 pgs Wernher von Braun: Crusader
for Space
In Saturn #1 folder
Phillips, W.
Hewitt
Ertel, Ivan 1966-06-21 Langley Research Center
(LaRC) role in Apollo Program, lunar orbit
rendezvous (LOR), reentry
studies, lunar module (LM) and Apollo docking, Lunar
Landing Research Facility
(LLRF)
1705 Transcript 11 pgs
Pickering, Hall, R. 1968-08-20 NASA/JPL relationship, 1708 Transcript 7 pgs Jet Propulsion Copyrighted
William H. Cargill Ranger Project, Agena Laboratory by JPL
launch vehicles, “Red Socks” Archives Oral
proposal History Program
Pickering, Hall, R. 1975-11-25 History of JPL and NASA 18967 Transcript 9 pgs Jet Propulsion Copyrighted
William H. Cargill Caltech relations and Project Laboratory by JPL Ranger, spacecraft testing Archives Oral
History Program
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Pickering, William H.
Hooks, Michael Q.
1989-10-20 Biographical information, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
rocket research during World
War II, Corporal missile, Sergeant missile, role as
director of JPL, International
Geophysical Year (IGY), Sputnik 1, Explorer 1,
relationship between NASA
and JPL, Project Ranger, program management
18968 &
19405
Transcript 94 pgs Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Archives Oral
History Program
Copyrighted by JPL
Pickering,
William H.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-09-04 Relationship between NASA
and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) during
Webb's tenure, impact of
Ranger program failures on NASA-JPL relationship,
Webb's insistence on a JPL
deputy director with a managerial role, relationship
between Webb and Caltech
President Lee DuBridge, lessons learned from Ranger
failures, relationship between
Webb and Pickering, Pickering's efforts to prevent
JPL from becoming a NASA
center under civil service rules
7106 Notes 10 pgs Powering Apollo
Pierson,
Thomas
Dick, Steven
J.
1997-05-16 SETI under NASA,
cancellation of NASA funds for SETI, funding SETI
through donations, SETI
observation program, SETI Institute, international aspects
of SETI, SETI Institute
support of exobiology
research
19925 Transcript 19 pgs SETI History
(unpublished)
Piland, Robert O.
Merrifield, Robert
1968-10-25 Early Space Task Group (STG) studies on manned
lunar missions, formation of
Apollo program, lunar module (LM) design, earth
sciences at Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC)
18994 Transcript 9 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
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Piland, Robert O.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-12-03 Decision to designate Apollo as a program rather than
project, Piland's work on
early Apollo studies, selection of North American
Aviation (NAA) as Apollo
spacecraft prime contractor, Charles Frick
13220 &
13289
Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Piland, Robert
O.
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-01-07 Piland's NASA career, Max
Faget's work as Mercury and Apollo capsules, Faget’s
suggestion of submariners
over aviators for astronauts, work with Space Task Group
(STG) on Apollo program
studies, lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) over
direct descent landing,
proposal for lunar module's (LM) propulsion system as
backup for service module
propulsion system (SPS) during trans-lunar and trans-
earth flight, later used as
guide during Apollo 13 accident
1713,
13220, 13289
Transcript 32 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Piland, Robert
O.
Emme,
Eugene
1974-09-13 President's Scientific
Advisory Committee (PSAC), early Apollo
spacecraft design, Space
Task Group (STG) at Langley Research Center
(LaRC)
13459 Transcript 84 pgs Early NASA
History (unpublished)
Pinkel, Irving I.
Bonney, Walter
1973-09-22 NACA career, aircraft fuels, lubricants, high altitude oil
pumps, crash fire safety,
icing problems, and hydrogen
fueled engines
1715 &
19511
Transcript 21 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Pinkel, Irving
I.
Dawson,
Virginia P.
1985-01-30 Supersonic flight and
propulsion research at Lewis Research Center (LeRC),
technology transfer and need
for government research to aid industry, airplane crash
1715 Transcript 24 pgs Engines and
Innovation
and fire tests, NACA vs.
NASA, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, de-icing research
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Pohl, Henry
O.
Guilmartin,
Joe
1983-11-02 Space Shuttle main engine
(SSME), working at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
with German engineers,
combustion instability, Shuttle orbital maneuvering
system (OMS), SSME vs
aerospike engine
19887 Transcript 36 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
Potate, John S.
Ray, Thomas 1972-06-06 Project management and development of Saturn
launch vehicles and
complexes, NASA management organization,
General Electric (GE)
integration contract, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, contractor
structure and management,
NASA centers and HQ, SARP and PERT systems
1729 Transcript 51 pgs
Powell,
Luther
Gruen, Adam 1987-11-00 Space Station Freedom
(SSF), space platform, extended duration orbiter
(EDO), Space Station Task
Force (SSTF), CEG personnel, organization and
management, political nature:
numerous government agencies weighed in on
Space Station
1730 Transcript 22 pgs Space Station
Freedom History (unpublished)
Powers, John A. "Shorty"
Merrifield, Robert
1968-11-09 Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) public affairs,
astronauts and the media,
tensions between astronauts and public affairs office
18994 Transcript 37 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Powers,
Sheryll Goecke
Wright,
Rebecca
Johnson,
Sandra
2001-06-13 Powers' role as a co-op at
Dryden Flight Research Center, Lunar Landing
Research Vehicle (LLRV),
work as "computer" in X-15 program, how technological
change affects ways of
3636 Transcript 59 pgs Herstory Project
thinking, transition from co-
op to engineer, women in engineering at DFRC, change
in attitudes towards risk,
writing history of women at DFRC
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Press, Frank 1998-06-18 Press's role as the director of
the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
during Carter’s
administration, recommendation of Robert
Frosch as NASA
administrator, Space Shuttle program
18969 Transcript 19 pgs
Presswood, Clarence M.
Merrifield, Robert
1967-09-26 Spacecraft escape and maneuvering system tests at
White Sands Missile Range
(WSMR), NASA White Sands activities placed under
Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC) management, change to White Sands Test Facility
(WSTF)
18994 Transcript 10 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Preston, G.
Merritt
Merrifield,
Robert
1969-11-12 Placement of mission control
and launch control at Kennedy Space Center
(KSC) for Project Mercury,
transfer of astronauts and training to Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC),
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, KSC role in manned spaceflight
18994 Transcript 9 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Price, Donald K.
Lambright, W. Henry
1984-09-01 Webb's strategy as Director of the Bureau of Budget
(BoB) to tie BoB to White
House staffing system during
Truman administration,
Hoover Commission, Webb
and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, Webb's
strengths and weaknesses as
a manager
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
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DMS
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Format Length Source/Project Copyright
and Notes
Price, Donald K.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-12-20 Hoover Commission and Webb's opposition to it,
Webb's use of Public
Administration Service for studies while director of
Bureau of Budget during
Truman administration
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
Price, Robert Butrica,
Andrew
1993-09-27 Price's radio astronomy
research in Australia, work
on anti-jamming
communications system for
US Army, Venus radar astronomy, move to seismic
research and detecting
underground nuclear tests, work at Sperry and Raytheon
18919 Transcript 45 pgs To See the
Unseen
Prim, James W., III
Merrifield, Robert
1967-12-08 Project Mercury flight control simulator, Mercury
remote site flight control,
Glenn Mercury flight (MA-6), Carpenter flight (MA-7)
18994 Transcript 11 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Purcell,
Edward
Emme,
Eugene
Roland, Alex 1974-05-22 Eisenhower administration
space policy, President's Science Advisory Committee
(PSAC) and formation of
NASA
13459 Transcript 58 pgs Early NASA
History (unpublished)
Purcell, Joseph
McCurdy, Howard
1987-08-19 Vanguard program 18723 Transcript 48 pgs Inside NASA
Purser, Paul
E.
Merrifield,
Robert
1967-05-17 Formation of Space Task
Group (STG), Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) site
selection, MSC organization,
relationships between NASA centers in the 1960s
18994 Transcript 34 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
p.12 missing
Purser, Paul E.
Keller, Michael
1967-06-26 Langley Research Center (LaRC), WWII draft
exemptions for NACA
employees, NACA wartime staffing and research
1748 Transcript 34 pgs Kitty Hawk to Muroc
Putnam,
William
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-02-18 George Mueller,
disagreements between James Webb and Robert
13289 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Seamans, Webb and Phillips
Report
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Putt, Lt. Gen.
Donald L.
Sloop, John 1974-04-30 Early career in Pursuit, early
NASA/USAF cooperation and personnel, early
satellites, German research
and researchers, hydrogen research, U-2, OST origins,
B-17, Suntan
1751 Transcript 61 pgs Liquid Hydrogen
as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959
Putt, Lt. Gen. Donald L.
Bonney, Walter
1974-09-25 NACA, leadership of Jerome Hunsaker and James
Doolittle, NACA and USAF
cooperation
1451 Transcript 6 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Raborn, Vice
Adm. William F., Jr.
Mason, John,
Jr.
1972-09-15 Polaris missile 19414 Transcript 71 pgs
Rafel, Norman
Ray, Thomas 1972-03-23 Apollo Program, management and dev of
Saturn 5 launch vehicle,
Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF), program
management and use of
PERT vs. SARP, management styles of B.
Holmes and G. Mueller,
contract management
1758 Transcript 56 pgs
Raines,
Martin L.
Merrifield,
Robert
1968-10-23 Wernher von Braun, White
Sands Test Facility (WSTF), post-Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
materials testing, WSTF
rocket engine testing, reentry tests
18994 Transcript 9 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Raines, Martin L.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-01-18 Robert Gilruth’s retirement as center director of Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC)
13289 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Raithel,
Wilhelm
Guilmartin,
Joe
1984-07-25 Raithel's work on structural
engineering for the V-2 program, difficulties in
making V-2 an operational
weapon due to frequent disintegration during descent,
developing ablative
19887 Notes 8 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
nosecones for Jupiter missiles
during 1950s
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Ramo, Simon Collins,
Martin
1988-06-27 Career from 1945-early
1960s: Project Hermes for General Electric (GE) post
WWII, Hughes Corporation
and missile projects, contacts between Hughes and other
firms, universities and
RAND, systems engineering development, Ramo-
Wooldridge formation,
interaction with USAF on ICBMs, conflict of interest
problem rumors, international
business and government/industry
difficulties
18970 Transcript 62 pgs
Ramo, Simon Butler, Carol 1999-04-06 Ramo-Wooldridge
Corporation, Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc.
(TRW), Guided Missile
Research Division, Space Technology Labs, ICBM
programs – US and USSR,
H-Bomb, Strategic Air Command (SAC), Sputnik,
Atlas ICBM, Titan ICBM,
Thor IRBM, NASA formation,
NASA/USAF/contractor
relations, future relations between government civilian
and military agencies on
space
18971 Transcript 46 pgs
Ramo, Simon Taylor, Alotta Bradley,
George
1999-11-05 Development of launch
vehicles for the US military and NASA
18920 Transcript 86 pgs AAAS
Symposium on Developing US
Launch
Capability
Also includes
video of symposium
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#
Ramos, Ruben
Fries, Sylvia 1985-08-09 Ramos's experience growing up Hispanic in the American
Southwest, joining Ames
Research Center (ARC) as part of Army service,
developing communications
systems for deep space probes, involvement in
Pioneer program, Equal
Employment Opportunity (EEO) at ARC, Ramos's
transition to management
3577 Transcript 25 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Randt, Clark T.
Emme, Eugene
1961-03-30 Origin of Office of Life Sciences, space medicine,
Mercury project, Hugh
Dryden and T. Keith Glennan, NASA and USAF
cooperation and conflict over
bioastronautics and space biology
1761 Transcript 22 pgs
Randt, Clark
T.
Pitts, John 1979-08-14 Randt's background pre-
NASA, Kety Committee, conflicts between scientific
community and NASA and
USAF, Ames Research Center (ARC) life sciences
laboratory
1761 Transcript 32 pgs The Human
Factor
Raney, William P.
Gruen, Adam 1986-11-06 Space Station Freedom (SSF), SSF organization and
management, space station
planning, international cooperation, space law
1762 Transcript 44 pgs Space Station Freedom History
(unpublished)
Raymond, Arthur E.
Bonney, Walter
1971-05-10 NACA use of industry research during 1920s and
1930s, DC-1, DC-2, Jack
Northrop, drag and flush riveting, wood vs. metal
propellers and wind tunnel
research at CalTech, 1946-1956 NACA committee
involvement
1768 Transcript 9 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
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#
Raymond, Arthur E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-11-30 Raymond's work as consultant to NASA for
Webb, Webb's use of
consultants as troubleshooters and extra
lines of communication at
NASA, Webb's creation of a "kitchen cabinet" at NASA
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
Readdy,
William F.
Dick, Steven
J.
2004-03-23 Readdy's association with
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing missions as
an astronaut and as Deputy
Associate Administrator for Space Shuttle, risk associated
with Space Shuttle missions
even with on-orbit tile repair capability, decision to
consider robotic servicing of
HST, timeline of cancellation of fifth HST servicing
mission, Vision for Space
Exploration (VSE), public reaction to cancellation of
19820 Transcript 24 pgs Hubble Servicing
(unpublished)
fifth HST servicing mission
Rees,
Eberhard F.M.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-02-06 Lunar orbit rendezvous
(LOR), Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) vs. Marshall
Space Flight Center (MSFC),
Phillips Report, Eberhard Rees’ mission to North American Aviation (NAA)
Downey plant after Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
13289 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Rees, Eberhard F.M.
Guilmartin, Joseph
1984-07-16 Rees' involvement with the V-2 program during World
War II, coming to the US
under Operation Paperclip
and ultimately to Redstone
Arsenal in Huntsville, Eugen
Saenger and his influence on V-2 design, German work on
Jet Assisted Take Off
19887 Transcript 24 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
(JATO) during World War II, development of pump-fed
rocket engines in Germany
and the US, German tests of
advanced V-2 (known as A-9) near the end of World War
II, design studies on A-10
prototype ICBM, German A-7 rocket (A-9 prototype),
Rocco Petrone, Marshall
Space Flight Center (MSFC) as origin of fully reusable
Shuttle design
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Rees,
Eberhard F.M.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1992-01-06 James Webb and Wernher
von Braun
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Reuter, Karl Krige, John 2007-06-17 European Space Agency (ESA), Germany space
policy
11183 Transcript 35 pgs NASA in the World
Reynolds, Orr Pitts, John 1979-11-14 Aviation physiology
research, primate research; NASA organization of space
biology, medicine, life
sciences, and biotechnology under Office of Space
Sciences (OSS), Office of
Advanced Research and Technology (OART), and
Office of Manned Space
Flight (OMSF)
1787 Transcript 19 pgs The Human
Factor
Rice, Donald Logsdon, John 1975-11-13 Rice's perspective on the Space Shuttle decision as
part of Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
7915 &
19887
Transcript 8 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Ride, Sally 1983-05-00 STS-7 training,
responsibilities for mission, working with Remote
Manipulator System (RMS)
1795 Transcript 16 pgs
Riesman,
David
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-05-28 Riesman's recruitment to
Sperry Gyroscope Company
by Webb, effect of World
War II ending on Sperry, Webb's strategic ability as a
manager at Sperry
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
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Ripley, S. Dillon
Lambright, W. Henry
1992-02-15 Webb as a Smithsonian regent, growth of the
Smithsonian during 1970s,
Webb's insistence on Smithsonian having an
undersecretary to handle
management, Webb's push for creation of National Air
and Space Museum (NASM)
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Robbins, William H.
"Red"
McMahon, A. Michal
Dawson, Virginia
1986-05-15 Loss of personnel at Lewis Research Center (LeRC) after
the Apollo program, Robbins'
detail to NASA Headquarters, LeRC center
director Bruce Lundin, LeRC
center culture legacy as technology rather than
projects-oriented, use of
projects to conduct technology development,
LeRC long range planning
and its results, wind energy research at LeRC during oil
crisis, risk and project
management, Robbins' decision to become a project
manager rather than
remaining an engineer, Robbins' education as an
engineer, difficulties in an
engineering career, career ladder for engineers at LeRC
3578 Transcript 21 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Roberts,
James L.
Ezell, Edward 1975-05-01 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
(ASTP) working groups
6689 Transcript 29 pgs The Partnership
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Robinson, Russell G.
Bonney, Walter
1974-09-24 Establishment of West Coast NACA (Ames Aeronautical
Lab), coordination of
research with industry in 1930’s-1940’s, NACA as
research organization,
aerodynamic and engine research, integration of
theoretical and research
engineers, Navy and NACA, George Lewis and Theodore
von Karman
1807 Transcript 11 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Rogallo, Robert
Fries, Sylvia 1985-08-08 Distinction between research engineers and development
engineers, Rogallo's view of
management, computer simulation in aeronautics
research at Ames Research
Center (ARC), NASA move toward contract employees
3577 Transcript 20 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Rogers, Alan E.E.
Butrica, Andrew
1994-05-05 Use of radar in planetary mapping, Very Long
Baseline Interferometry
(VLBI), Rogers' transition to radio astronomy, Haystack
Observatory
18919 Transcript 24 pgs To See the Unseen
Roller, Duane Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-02-01 James Webb and Frontiers of
Science Foundation
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Roman, Wright, Johnson, 2000-09-15 Roman's education in 3636 Transcript 66 pgs Herstory Project Nancy G. Rebecca Sandra astronomy, role as NASA
Chief of Astronomy
Romanek,
Christopher S.
Dick, Steven
J.
1997-02-15 Working on the chemistry of
meteorites at Johnson Space Center (JSC), "Mars rock"
research at JSC, possible
existence of microfossils in "Mars rock", press and
scientific reaction to "Mars
rock"
19505 Transcript 26 pgs SETI History
(unpublished)
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Root, L. Eugene
Bonney, Walter
1974-09-25 NACA and NACA committee on Aerodynamics,
career at Douglas Aircraft,
Guggenheim Aeronautical Lab at Caltech (GALCIT),
engineering education at
Caltech
1829 &
19511
Transcript 9 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Rosen, Milton Grimwood,
James
1966-09-15 Saturn launch vehicle project 1835 Transcript 20 pgs On the Shoulders
of Titans
Rosen, Milton Emme, Eugene
Hacker, Barton
1969-11-14 1959 pressure to end Saturn program, determination to
continue, determining
responsibility for program, Saturn in Apollo Program,
lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)
vs. earth orbit rendezvous (EOR), upper stages
problems, Saturn F-1 engine,
NASA development of own launch vehicles
1835 Notes 2 pgs
Rosen, Milton Ray, Thomas 1972-07-07 Development, capabilities,
costs of Saturn 5 and Nova
launch vehicles, mobile
launcher, launch complex facilities
1835 Transcript 12 pgs
Roth, Gilbert L.
Ray, Thomas 1970-09-29 General Electric (GE) integration contract for
Apollo program, coordination
and cooperation: HQ and field centers, NASA
Performance Analysis and
Control Section and configuration management,
Boeing TIE contract after
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
1846 Transcript 55 pgs
Roth, Gilbert
L.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-02-18 Phillips Report 13289 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Roth, Gilbert L.
Fries, Sylvia 1987-02-19 Boeing contract post Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and forming
Aerospace Safety Advisory
Panel, executive secretary for panel, organization and
responsibilities of panel,
NASA organization and culture, project management,
safety policies for Apollo
Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), Space Shuttle Program, and
Hubble Space Telescope
(HST)
1846 Transcript 29 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Rothenberg,
Joseph H.
Wright,
Rebecca
2004-03-12 Rothenberg's work on lunar
module (LM) at Grumman, Orbiting Astronomical
Observatory (OAO), Space
Shuttle modeling, project management, Solar
Maximum Mission (Solar
Max), Hubble Space Telescope (HST), role as
chief of Mission Operations
Division at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Earth
Observation System (EOS),
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Systems (TDRSS),
HST repair and repair
training, role as Director of GSFC, GSFC reorganization,
role as head of Office of
18972 Transcript 133 pgs NASA
Administrators Oral History
Project
Space Flight
Rummell,
John D.
Dick, Steven
J.
1997-11-16 Rummel's work on closed-
loop environmental systems at Ames Research Center
(ARC), exobiology program
management at NASA HQ, management of SETI
program at NASA HQ, move
of SETI from NASA to SETI Institute, "Mars rock",
astrobiology versus
exobiology
19505 Transcript 39 pgs SETI History
(unpublished)
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Ryan, Bertha M.
Johnson, Sandra
Wright, Rebecca
2001-06-13 Ryan getting her pilot's license, work as aeronautical
engineer at Dryden Flight
Research Center (DFRC) in lifting body program, attitude
towards women engineers at
DFRC, work for Naval Weapons Center at China
Lake, flying as a soaring
pilot, DFRC pilots
3636 Transcript 49 pgs Herstory Project
Sacks, Martin Sherrod, 1969-10-21 Grumman and North 13289 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
Robert American Aviation (NAA), (unpublished) “tiger teams”
Safro, Sergei Gerovitch, Slava
2009-03-03 Construction of Baikonur/Tyuratam,
conditions at Baikonur in the
early 1960s, Nedelin disaster, secrecy at Baikonur, how
Safro became a dissident
19860 Transcript 6 pgs Voices from the Soviet Space
Program
Sandoval,
Nestor G., Jr. ("Sandy")
Merrifield,
Robert
1967-12-14 US Army testing and
facilities at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR),
relationship with local New
Mexicans, transfer of section of WSMR to NASA control,
White Sands Test Facility
(WSTF)
18994 Transcript 10 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Sasser, James H.
Swenson, Lloyd S.
1971-05-17 Selection of lunar landing sites for Surveyor, Lunar
Orbiter, Ranger, and Apollo;
discovery of mascons by Lunar Orbiter probes and
concerns of effects on Apollo
spacecraft lunar orbits, importance of Apollo 8 lunar
photography, Lunar
reflectivity, exploration of
back side of moon,
coordination with USAF
Aeronautical Chart and Info Center, Army Topographic
Command, US Coast and
Geodetic Survey, USGS for mapping of moon
1884 Transcript 36 pgs Apollo Oral History
Interviews
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Satterfield, Merrifield, 1968-03-13 Project Mercury tracking 18994 Transcript 29 pgs MSC History James M. Robert system, evolution of tracking (unpublished)
system, evolution of mission
control
Sawyer, Paul Sherrod,
Robert
1972-11-02 1970 David Wolper contract
with astronauts for movie rights to their personal
stories, New York Times
contract with Apollo 15 crew,
astronaut bylines
13227
& 13289
Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Telephone
interview
Sawyer, Paul Sherrod, Robert
1972-11-15 Astronaut contract with TIME in 1968 for astronauts'
personal stories, LIFE
contract with astronauts, "For All Mankind" book,
provisions for widows from
contracts, Sawyer's experience in representing
astronauts, effect of Apollo 8
flight on contract offers to astronauts, Field Enterprises'
contract with astronauts,
NASA Administrator James
Webb's view of contracts,
Deke Slayton's power as
chief of astronaut office, Buzz Aldrin, foreign
distribution rights for
astronauts' stories
13227 &
13289
Transcript 50 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Scheer, Julian Merrifield, Robert
1967-07-20 NASA Public Affairs Office, Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC) public affairs
operations, role of Headquarters and MSC in
manned space flight program
public affairs
18994 Transcript 22 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Scheer, Julian Sherrod,
Robert
1969-02-18 Omissions from Apollo
mission commentary transcripts, firing of Shorty
Powers
13289 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Scheer, Julian Sherrod, Robert
1969-06-04 Air to ground “private line”, public affairs aspects of
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
aftermath, Paul Haney
13289 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
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Scheer, Julian Sherrod, Robert
1969-06-30 LIFE contract with astronauts, lack of hidden
controversies in Apollo
program
13289 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Scheer, Julian Sherrod, Robert
1969-09-11 NASA Administrator James Webb, Webb and New York
Times, public affairs aspects
of Apollo 1 (AS-204 fire), final words of Apollo 1
astronauts, Frank Borman,
Neil Armstrong, Phillips Report
13289 Notes 6 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Scheer, Julian Sherrod,
Robert
1970-06-29 James Webb and Robert
Seamans, Al Shepard, Frank Borman
13289 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Scheer, Julian Sherrod, Robert
1971-02-19 James Webb, Phillips Report, Deke Slayton, practical jokes
between Scheer and Thomas
O. Paine, Wernher von Braun
13289 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Scheer, Julian Sherrod, Robert
1971-02-22 Scheer's response to request for his resignation
13289 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Scheer, Julian Sherrod, Robert
1971-12-14 James Webb, Webb's relationship with Robert
Seamans, Scheer being fired
from NASA
13289 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Scheer, Julian Sherrod, Robert
1972-05-01 NY Times vs. James Webb, Neil Armstrong as first on
moon, planned vs.
spontaneous astronaut statements, public affairs
activity summaries, Shorty
Powers reassignment, Shepard on Apollo 13 crew,
Apollo 14 splashdown
13228 &
13289
Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
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Scheer, Julian Sherrod, Robert
1973-04-26 John Glenn’s Newsweek article, Neil Armstrong and
Norman Mailer, motivating
astronauts to write, Buzz Aldrin
13129, 13132,
13197,
13289
Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Scheer, Julian Lambright, W. Henry
1990-06-13 Webb's hiring Scheer to run the NASA Public Affairs
program, Webb's relationship
with the media covering the space program, Webb's
preference for strategic
management, Webb's use of publicity to gain long-term
support of the space program,
Webb's handling of Congressional relations,
Webb as public speaker,
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and investigation, Webb's desire
for innovative management
ideas, Webb as mentor, arrangement to send space
program artifacts to the
Smithsonian Institution
7106 Notes 12 pgs Powering Apollo
Scherer, Lee R.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-10-16 Science in Apollo program, especially Apollo 11; Apollo
lunar landing site selection,
Harold Urey, findings about lunar surface since Apollo 11
13229 &
13289
Notes 8 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
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Schirra, Wally Furlong, William
1967-00-00 Competitiveness between astronauts, astronaut
preference on nature of
spacecraft controls, comparison between Gemini
and Apollo spacecraft
controls, difference between astronauts with military
aviation backgrounds and
scientific backgrounds, comradery between Navy
astronauts, hazards of being a
test pilot versus being an astronaut, setting up shift
schedules on Gemini and
Apollo flights, radiation exposure during space flight,
astronaut attitude toward
dangers of space flight, US air traffic control system
13284 Transcript 38 pgs Copyrighted by World
Book
Encyclopedia Science
Service
(WBESS)
Schlechter, Robert
Felt, Elliott, Jr.
Green, Constance
Lomask, Milton
1967-03-13 Role of Martin personnel in preparing Project Vanguard
launch vehicle for flight,
launch vehicle design problems
1916 Notes 2 pgs Vanguard: A History
Schlesinger, Sherrod, 1972-06-02 President Kennedy's 1963 13289 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
Arthur, Jr. Robert proposal for a joint lunar (unpublished) landing mission with the
USSR
Schmitt, Sherrod, 1970-01-19 Naming of lunar craters to 13289 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History Harrison H. Robert use as landmarks for Apollo (unpublished)
("Jack") lunar landings
Schmitt,
Harrison H. ("Jack")
Sherrod,
Robert
1974-04-09 Results of scientific analysis
of Apollo 17 lunar samples, looking for specific types of
rocks during Apollo 17
extravehicular activity (EVAs), orange soil,
evolution of lunar sample
analysis methods, information on earth's early
history learned from moon
13289 Transcript 13 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Schneider, Ray, Thomas 1970-11-02 Schneider's role as Apollo 1928 Transcript 28 pgs William mission director and decision
to send Apollo 8 into lunar
orbit
Schneider, William
Mathews, Charles
Culbertson, Philip E.
Compton, David
Benson, Charles
1975-07-15 Skylab, Apollo Applications Program, Manned Orbiting
Laboratory (MOL), role of
Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Marshall Space Flight
Center (MSFC) in Skylab
project, Apollo Extension System (AES), program
management
1928 Transcript 86 pgs Living and Working in
Space
Schneiderman
, Dan
Needell, Allan 1982-07-17 Schneiderman's experiences
with radar during WWII, work for Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL), Corporal
missile, Pioneer 3 & 4, Ranger spacecraft, Mariner
spacecraft, spacecraft
sterilization, Mariner 1 and 2, Mariner 5
18973 Transcript 51 pgs
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Schnyer, Mauer, John 1984-10-20 Studies at Marshall Space 19887 Transcript 65 pgs Space Shuttle Daniel Flight Center (MSFC) and by
the US Air Force (USAF) on
reusable launch vehicles prior to 1964, origins of space
plane concept in the US, mid
1960s studies of Shuttle as a space station logistics
vehicle, Lockheed 1966
study on reusable spacecraft configurations, attempts to
coordinate requirements with
USAF through Aeronautics and Astronautics
Coordinating Board (AACB),
Integrated Launch and Reentry Vehicle (ILRV)
studies by contractors,
George Mueller as coiner of term "Space Shuttle",
Mueller as driver behind
getting Shuttle started as a design program in 1968,
1969 Shuttle design studies,
Schnyer's early belief that partially reusable Shuttle the
best option for immediate post-Apollo time frame, role
of Planning Steering Group
(PSG), Mueller's push for fully reusable Space Shuttle
design, lack of support for
straight wing orbiter design, Shuttle program goals for
payloads and program costs,
Space Shuttle Task Group (SSTG), NASA and USAF
requirements influencing size
and weight of Space Shuttle orbiter, running Shuttle
alternate Phase A and Phase
B studies in tandem as a result of Nixon
administration budget cuts,
Grumman losing bid as
Decision
Space Shuttle orbiter prime
contract
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Schriever,
Gen. Bernard A.
Collins,
Martin
1990-05-18 Pre-war military service and
studies in engineering, Project RAND, Scientific
Liaison Office (SLO) (1945-
1949), post-war scientific advisory boards and
relationship of boards and
RAND to SLO, USAF long-range planning, strategic
bombing and nuclear
weapons
18983 Transcript 38 pgs
Schriever, Gen. Bernard
A.
Butler, Carol 1999-04-19 US ICBM Program, Western Development Division,
USSR ICBM program,
Sputnik, Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, Atlas ICBM,
Titan ICBM, US Navy
Polaris Program, formation of NASA, Advanced
Research Projects Agency
(ARPA), Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), space
and national security
18984 Transcript 35 pgs
Schriever, Taylor, Alotta Bradley, 1999-11-05 Development of launch 18920 Transcript 86 pgs AAAS Also includes
Gen. Bernard George vehicles for the US military Symposium on video of A. and NASA Developing US symposium
Launch
Capability
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Schuiling, Roelof L.
Fries, Sylvia 1987-03-11 Schuiling's early interest in airplanes and engineering,
education as an aeronautical
engineer at Auburn, work at North American Aviation in
aerodynamics, laid off and
hiring at Kennedy Space Center as a Mercury
spacecraft engineer, switch to
operations planning during Gemini program, switch to
facilities engineering after
Apollo 12, decision to go back to school for an MBA,
switch to Space Shuttle
payload engineering, variety of a civil service career, KSC
center mindset
3578 Transcript 22 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Schultze,
Charles
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-02-22 Webb's relationship with
President Lyndon Johnson, Johnson's use of the budget
process to get what he
wanted from Congress, issue of NASA's need for long-
term planning versus
Johnson's interest in short-term goals, Webb's
relationship with Congress
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Schurmeier, Hall, R. Wilson, James 1970-09-25 Ranger Project, work at Jet 18975 Transcript 35 pgs Lunar Impact Harris M. Cargill Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
"Bud" Systems Division, Ranger
spacecraft, Ranger 6 failure, program management
Schwinghame r, Robert
Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Rescue of Skylab spacecraft, proposal to spray paint
micro-meteoroid shield in
space, design and use of the parasail
1954 &
7591
Transcript 36 pgs
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Scialdone, John
Fries, Sylvia 1986-06-03 Scialdone's life as a civilian in Italy during World War II,
emigrating to the US, change
in culture at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
between 1960s and 1980s,
shift to contracting rather than in-house technical
capability, changes in
engineering education
3577 Transcript 21 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Scott, David
R.
Furlong,
William
1967-00-00 Scott growing up with his
father as a fighter pilot, Scott's decision to become a
13284 Transcript 38 pgs Copyrighted
by World Book
pilot himself, close calls as a
pilot, Gemini 8 splashdown, planned Gemini 8 EVA, post
flight visit to Paris Air Show,
meeting cosmonauts at Paris Air Show and comparing
spacecraft, comparison of
Gemini and Apollo space suits, how Scott met his wife,
Apollo spacecraft control
design, astronaut training, competitiveness and
cooperation among
astronauts leading to lunar landing flight
Encyclopedia
Science Service
(WBESS)
Scott, David Burke, James 1979-05-19 Lunar landing and 1959 Transcript 9 pgs Copyrighted
R. rendezvous sequences during by BBC Apollo missions, financial
gains of astronauts
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Scott, David R.
Lovell, James Duke, Charles Burke, James 1979-05-19 Astronaut selection engineering, test and flight
procedures, mission
planning, design of science experiments, public support
of space program, biological
functions in space, CAPCOM, science and
engineering in Apollo
program, readjustment after flight and family issues,
media relations, 1970
funding cutbacks, NASA reaction to Apollo 15
controversy
1959 Transcript 121 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
Scrivener, Nina
Sherrod, Robert
1970-11-30 George Low replacing Joe Shea, James Webb meeting
with Senator Mondale re:
Phillips Report
13289 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Scrivener,
Nina
Lambright, W.
Henry
1989-07-20 James Webb's family,
Scrivener's role as Webb's secretary
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Scrivener, Nina
Lambright, W. Henry
1989-09-18 Webb's work habits, Webb's mentoring style
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Scrivener,
Nina
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-04-13 James Webb's career in the
US Marines, Webb's retirement from NASA
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Sohier, Walter Rothrock, Addison
1964-03-27 Seamans' interactions with President Kennedy during
trips to Los Alamos and Las
Vegas and Houston, Rice University speech, lunar
landing decision, transition
from Eisenhower to Kennedy administrations, decision to
ban nuclear test in upper
atmosphere, Kennedy meeting with James Webb
and Brainerd Holmes on
space policy
3633 &
13234
Transcript 46 pgs Kennedy Administration
Oral History
Project
Copyrighted by John F.
Kennedy
Library
Seamans,
Robert C., Jr.
Grimwood,
James
1965-09-01 Project Mercury 3637 Notes 4 pgs This New Ocean
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Seamans, Emme, Grimwood, 1966-05-26 Gemini program start-up, 3639 Transcript 17 pgs On the Shoulders Robert C., Jr. Eugene James management, decision on of Titans
Titan 2 launch vehicle,
participation of DoD
Seamans, van Riper, 1966-12-06 Decision for “all-up” concept 3638 Transcript 4 pgs
Robert C., Jr. Paul for development and testing & of Saturn launch vehicles 16203
Seamans,
Robert C., Jr.
van Riper,
Paul
Putnam,
William
1967-07-20 Gemini 7/6 mission decision,
M-1 engine cancellation,
incentive contracts,
establishment of secretariat, and top-level decision-
making in NASA
3641 Notes 4 pgs
Seamans, Logsdon, John Emme, 1967-12-05 Lunar landing mode decision 3640 Transcript 40 pgs John F. Kennedy
Robert C., Jr. Eugene by the Kennedy & and the Race to Administration 13234 the Moon
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Emme, Eugene
Putnam, William
1968-05-08 Project Mercury, organization of life sciences
program, meetings with
President Eisenhower on communication satellites and
lunar landing costs, NASA
reaction to Wiesner Committee report,
appointment of James Webb
as NASA Administrator, President's Science Advisory
Council (PSAC) role in lunar
orbit rendezvous (LOR) mode decision, establishment
of ComSat, Syncom
satellites, meetings and studies leading to lunar
landing mission decision,
1963 reorganization, organization of Apollo
program management,
controversy: Brainerd Homes and James Webb,
establishment of Kennedy
Space Center (KSC), NASA/ Congressional/ public
relations, Houston site selection for Manned
3622 Transcript 162 pgs
Spacecraft Center (MSC),
advanced planning, reorganization upon
Seamans’ Deputy Administrator appointment, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
Large Launch Vehicle
Planning Group (LLVPG), alternate launch site search,
Apollo contracts, Air Force
participation in Gemini program, Homer Newell
Associate Administrator
appointment, Lunar Surveyor, Ranger, and Lunar
Orbiter projects; management
relations with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), post-
Apollo projects using
existing hardware, FY1968 appropriations and
authorization, satellite
applications and Tiros program, international
program, electronics and
aeronautical research under NACA and NASA
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Seamans, Sherrod, 1968-12-28 NASA organization after 13289 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History Telephone Robert C., Jr. Robert President Kennedy's election (unpublished) interview
Seamans,
Robert C., Jr.
Neff, Donald 1969-02-12 Pre-Apollo lunar flight
studies, Apollo program
decision, decision for lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)
mission mode
3642,
13211,
13322
Transcript 7 pgs Copyrighted
by Time, Inc.
Seamans,
Robert C., Jr.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-06-24 Astronaut selection, James
Webb’s position on astronaut writing contracts, Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire and aftermath,
Phillips Report, NASA organization, and Department
of Defense (DOD) effort to
take over Gemini
13289 Notes 9 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Logsdon, John Emme, Eugene
1969-07-11 Debate over lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) and earth
orbit rendezvous (EOR), or
direct decent mission modes for Apollo lunar landing
missions
3644 Transcript 28 pgs John F. Kennedy and the Race to
the Moon
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Logsdon, John 1970-09-02 Post-Apollo planning, Apollo Applications Program (AAP),
1969 Space Task Group
(STG), Seamans as STG member, Seamans' questions
about manned Mars missions,
Department of Defense space program planning
3645 &
19887
Transcript 25 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Bonney, Walter
1973-02-23 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
(NACA), NACA role in
missile development, transition from NACA to
NASA, Robert Gilruth,
Seamans’ role as Deputy Administrator, early NASA
organization, James Webb,
Jerome Hunsaker
3646 &
19887
Transcript 21 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Seamans,
Robert C., Jr.
Officer, Lt.
Col. Lyn
Ahmann,
Hugh
1973-09-00 Seamans' tenure as Secretary
of Air Force, selection of his staff, cooperation with other
DoD offices, Vietnam War,
weapons procurement, development of C-5
“Galaxy,” F-15 “Eagle,” VSTOL aircraft, Congressional and White
House relations
13882 Transcript 596 pgs Copyrighted
by Air Force Historical
Studies Office
Permission granted for
use
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1985-06-25 James Webb and NASA senior management "triad",
Webb and diminishing
support for US space program
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
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Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
Collins, Martin
1988-12-16 Management at North American Aviation (NAA)
prior to the Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire, Phillips Report, Apollo contract management,
Seamans' management
system, lack of flammability testing prior to Apollo 1 fire,
clash between Seamans' and
Webb's management styles, Seamans becoming Deputy
Administrator after Dryden's
death, Webb's desire for spinoffs from space program,
Seamans role in the aftermath
of the Apollo 1 fire and beginnings of the
investigation, Webb's role in
the Apollo 1 fire investigation, change in
relationship between Webb
and Seamans after Apollo 1 fire, Seamans' resignation
from NASA, Webb's
strengths as NASA Administrator
7106 Notes 17 pgs Powering Apollo
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Seamans, Lambright, W. 1990-11-16 Webb's personality, Seaman's 7106 Notes 13 pgs Powering Apollo Robert C., Jr. Henry first meeting with Webb in
1961, Webb's creation of
triad of senior NASA management with Dryden
and Seamans, Dryden's role
in the triad, decision to conduct an extravehicular
activity (EVA) on Gemini 4,
Webb's efforts to push Apollo forward before Yuri
Gagarin's flight, Webb's role
in Vice President Johnson's letter to President Kennedy
recommending a lunar
landing by the end of the decade as a response to
Gagarin's flight,
reorganization of NASA to accomplish Apollo program,
selection of Brainerd Holmes
to be Associate Administrator for the Office of Manned
Space Flight (OMSF),
relationship between Holmes and Webb, Holmes'
resignation from NASA, selection of George Mueller
as Holmes' successor,
selection of launch vehicles for Mercury and Gemini
programs, lunar orbit
rendezvous (LOR) decision, how Webb came up with $20
billion for total cost of
Apollo program
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Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-12-20 Formation of the Aeronautics and Astronautics
Coordinating Board (AACB),
relationship between Webb and Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara,
Department of Defense (DoD) efforts to get involved
in manned space flight via
Blue Gemini and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL),
relationship between NASA
and DoD during Webb's tenure as NASA
Administrator, relationship
between Webb and George Mueller, 1963 reorganization
of NASA, George Mueller,
Webb's attempts to improve management at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory,
President Lyndon Johnson's relationship with Webb
7106 Notes 11 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-01-18 Webb's creation of an executive secretariat within
the Office of the
Administrator, placing deputy directors at centers to
improve management,
Electronics Research Center (ERC) site selection, Harry
Goett
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-01-25 North American Aviation (NAA) contract for Apollo
spacecraft, Phillips Report,
Webb's interest in reorganizing NASA,
difference between Seamans
and Webb's views on management, NASA
management changes after
the Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Seamans' actions and report
after the Apollo 1 fire,
change in relationship
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
between Seamans and Webb
after Apollo 1 fire
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Seamans,
Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-02-01 Webb and the media, Webb's
use of consultants, Webb's management style, Webb's
relationship with Congress,
Webb's personality and ethics, Webb's preference for
taking personal responsibility
to deflect criticism of NASA personnel or programs,
astronaut finances, difference
between Webb's tenure at the State Department and as
NASA Administrator
7106 Notes 11 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-02-12 NASA budget cuts during the 1960s, effect of budget cuts
on NASA long-range plans,
intelligence information that provided basis for Webb's
warnings about the Soviet
space program, President
Johnson's interest in NASA
and effect of Vietnam War on
his interest, Webb's ability to maintain support for the
Apollo program despite
adversarial politics of the 1960s
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-03-13 Controversy between NASA and NOAA over which
agency should develop
weather satellites, development of Landsat and
agreement between NASA
and Department of Defense
(DoD) on camera resolution
for civilian earth resources
satellites
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
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Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-04-08 Division of responsibility between Webb and Seamans
for the Apollo 1 (AS-204)
fire investigation, Webb's relationship with George
Mueller, Webb's belief that a
better-organized NASA could have prevented Apollo
1 fire, Seamans' view of the
NASA executive secretariat system, how Webb handled
the mistakes of others
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-04-24 Selection of North American Aviation (NAA) as contractor
for Apollo spacecraft,
lobbyist Fred Black, relationship between Webb
and Wernher von Braun,
NAA troubles with Saturn S-II stage, NAA Apollo
spacecraft program
management problems, contract management, Webb
blaming NAA for the Apollo
1 (AS-204) fire
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-05-07 Relationship between NASA Headquarters and the
Marshall Space Flight Center
(MSFC) and Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC),
Bob Gilruth, formation of
Kennedy Space Center (KSC), relationship between
NASA and the Department of
Defense (DoD) on the KSC level, relationship between
NASA and the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL), Webb's frustrations with Caltech
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
management of JPL, letter
before the Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire from Hilliard Page to Joe
Shea re dangers of oxygen
gas system in the Apollo
command module (CM)
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Seamans,
Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-06-10 Hugh Dryden, Webb and the
Sustaining Universities Program (SUP), Webb's view
of government decision
making and the value advisory committees,
NASA's use of Bell Labs
(Bellcomm) for systems analysis studies, relationship
between NASA and the
President's Scientific Advisory Committee (PSAC)
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-07-02 Webb's strategy for recovering from the Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire, pressures to
return to flight quickly, Joe Shea, Phillips Report,
Seamans' resignation from
NASA
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans,
Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-08-02 NASA long range planning
under Webb, Mars Voyager, genesis of Skylab, Comsat as
example of successful space
commercialization
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-09-16 Decision to send Apollo 8 on a circumlunar mission,
Webb's resignation, Thomas
O. Paine selected as NASA Administrator, where
Seamans was during Apollo
11 mission
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans,
Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-10-07 Competition between NASA
centers for programs and responsibilities, Webb's
regrets about post-Apollo
direction of NASA, Apollo as Webb's top priority at NASA
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-11-04 Determining the cost of the Apollo program, resignation
of Harry Goett, Webb's desire
to make a positive impact on
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
society through the space
program
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Seamans,
Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-12-16 Webb's views on managing
large programs, centralization of decision making, contract
selection for Lunar Orbiter,
Webb's use of astronauts for political and public relations
purposes, people who went
on from NASA to manage large programs
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1992-02-17 James Webb's ability to separate management
problems and personal
relationships, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Seiff, Alvin Fries, Sylvia 1985-08-07 Seiff's education in chemical
engineering at University of Missouri, work for Tennessee
Valley Authority (TVA),
work as technical supervisor at Oak Ridge as part of
Manhattan Project, hiring at
Ames Research Center (ARC) in 1948, work on
hypersonic aerodynamics
with H. Julian Allen, formation of blunt body
concept for spacecraft and
missile nose cones, end of reentry studies at ARC,
Orbital Transfer Vehicle
(OTV), value of engineers as managers, Seiff's switch to
planetary atmospheric
science, possibility of future challenges in field of
engineering, Ames Manned
Lunar Mission Team
3577 Transcript 24 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
Shapiro, Irwin
I.
Butrica,
Andrew
1993-09-30 Use of radar in ballistic
missile defense, Project West Ford, Venus radar astronomy,
Shapiro's discovery of
retrograde rotation of Venus;
18919 Transcript 24 pgs To See the
Unseen
rotation of Mercury,
Planetary Ephemeris Program (PEP)
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Shapiro, Irwin
I.
Butrica,
Andrew
1993-10-01 Lunar radar astronomy, use
of radar in studying
continental drift, radar test of theory of relativity, radar
mapping of Venus, Mercury,
and Mars; radar mapping of comets including Kohoutek,
Encke, and Halley
18919 Transcript 32 pgs To See the
Unseen
Shapiro, Irwin I.
Butrica, Andrew
1994-05-04 Planetary Ephemeris Program (PEP), radar
astronomy of Saturn's rings,
Jupiter radar astronomy, lunar laser ranging
experiments
18919 Transcript 16 pgs To See the Unseen
Shapley,
Willis H.
Logsdon, John 1967-12-14 Bureau of the Budget (BoB)
job, budget negotiations and
funding for manned space flight programs, decision to
accelerate space program and
manned lunar landing
1992 Transcript 35 pgs John F. Kennedy
and the Race to
the Moon
Shapley, Willis H.
Sherrod, Robert
1969-01-17 Shapley's perspective on decision to send Apollo 8 on
circumlunar flight
13289 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Shapley,
Willis H.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-01-28 Total cost of Apollo program
versus James Webb's
prediction, James Webb, George Mueller, General
Sam Phillips
13289 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Shapley, Willis H.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-07-16 James Webb and Kennedy administration, Webb and
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
Congressional hearing
preparation
13289 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Shapley,
Willis H.
Logsdon, John 1970-07-30 Post-Apollo planning,
establishment of 1969 Space
Task Group (STG), budget reductions, ideas for space
station and manned Mars
landing
1993 Transcript 27 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
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Shapley, Willis H.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-08-17 Joe Shea's reaction to Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, change in
relationship between James
Webb and Robert Seamans after Apollo 1 fire
13289 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Shapley, Sherrod, 1972-04-18 Names for Apollo command 13289 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
Willis H. Robert modules (CM) (unpublished)
Shapley,
Willis H.
Mauer, John 1984-10-26 1960s Space Shuttle studies,
1969 Space Task Group (STG) and Space Shuttle,
Bureau of Budget (BoB) cost
concerns, Space Shuttle design, Shuttle as
replacement for expendable
launch vehicles (ELV), Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) and Shuttle
design
1991
& 19887
Transcript 32 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
Shapley, Willis H.
Lambright, W. Henry
1987-05-20 Webb's views on the problems with creating long
range plans, relationship
between NASA and the US Air Force (USAF)
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
Shapley, Willis H.
Fries, Sylvia Saegesser, Lee
1987-11-10 Policy planning in changing political environment,
comparison with UK, Japan,
Germany, France, and others; national R&D, how policy
decisions are made, NASA
comparison to other federal bureaucracies, changes in
politics since 1942
1995 Transcript 26 pgs
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Shapley, Willis H.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-08-02 Webb's habit of using staff positions to train young
people, Webb as director of
Bureau of Budget (BoB), Webb's relationship with
BoB while NASA
Administrator, Sustaining Universities Program (SUP),
setting up the relationship
between NASA and the Department of Defense
(DoD) for Apollo, NASA and
DoD relationship, Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL),
Comsat Corporation, Shapley
joining NASA, George Mueller, problems in Apollo
program prior to the Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire, Senator Margaret Chase Smith,
Webb's management
decisions after the Apollo 1 fire, formation of Boeing-TIE
contract, Webb's resignation
as NASA Administrator, Apollo 8 lunar orbit decision
7106 Notes 21 pgs Powering Apollo
Sharp, Edward R.
Haggerty, J.J. 1951-10-12 Draft reducing scientific help at Lewis Flight Propulsion
Laboratory (LFPL), military
R&D expanded without NACA funds increased
2000 Transcript 4 pgs Copyrighted by American
Aviation
Magazine
Shea, Joseph
F.
Neff, Donald 1969-02-12 Shea's early career at NASA,
earth orbit rendezvous (EOR), Saturn launch
vehicles, “all up” testing decision, reliability statistics
2011,
13236, 13322
Transcript 20 pgs Copyrighted
by Time, Inc.
Shea, Joseph
F.
Emme,
Eugene
1970-05-06 Shea's early career at NASA,
Saturn 5 launch vehicle,
Nicholas Golovin, earth orbit
rendezvous (EOR), lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR),
Apollo program management
2011 Transcript 27 pgs
Shea, Joseph
F.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-05-06 Frank Borman's appointment
to Apollo 1 (AS-204) Review Board, Shea's view of Apollo
1 fire, Brainerd Holmes,
George Mueller, Wernher von Braun and lunar orbit
rendezvous (LOR) decision,
Shea's decision to work at NASA
13289
& 13354
Notes 5 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Shea, Joseph F.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-05-16 Shea's disapproval of Apollo spacecraft prime contractor
award to North American
Aviation (NAA); relationship
between James Webb and
Shea before and after Apollo
1 (AS-204) fire, John Yardley's mental breakdown
after Apollo 1 fire, Shea's
psychological state after Apollo 1 fire, Shea accepting
transfer to NASA
Headquarters, contract negotiations with NAA at
time of Apollo 1 fire, Shea's
preference for Block 1 Apollo command module
(CM) hatch, relationship
between James Webb,
George Mueller, and Robert
Seamans before Apollo 1
fire; exercising with astronauts, Shea and the press
after Apollo 1 fire, origins of
all-up testing; Shea's view of Apollo 8 flight as
unnecessary risk, Apollo astronaut crew selection
process, selection of Apollo 7
crew, selection of Apollo 11 crew, Shea's assessment of
his management of Apollo
Spacecraft Program Office
(ASPO), relationship
between Mueller and Robert
Gilruth, Deke Slayton, Alan Shepard, Shea's role during
Apollo 1 fire, whether Shea
wanted to be in CM with Apollo 1 crew, Apollo 1 crew
customization of CM with
13236 &
13289
Transcript 58 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
flammable material, Apollo 1
fire itself, simulation of Apollo 1 fire in boilerplate
CM, whether Shea could
have extinguished the fire if he had been in CM, February
1, 1967 report by Shea on
Apollo 1 countdown test and fire, Shea speech to Apollo
contractors February 3, 1967;
why a Block 1 CM was being flown at all, possibility of fire
on other missions if Apollo 1
fire had not happened, management changes at NAA
after Apollo 1 fire, Shea's
reaction to Apollo 1 fire, General Electric (GE) Apollo
integration contract,
Bellcomm Apollo systems engineering contract
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Shea, Joseph F.
Sherrod, Robert
1973-03-10 Heritage from ballistic missile program used during
Apollo program,
renegotiating Apollo command module (CM) and
lunar module (LM) contracts,
no need for new inventions for accomplishing Apollo
program, George Mueller,
General Sam Phillips, mindset resulting in Apollo
13 accident, Shea's
disagreement with rationale behind Apollo 8 flight, risk in
flying lunar landing flights
beyond Apollo 11, General
Electric (GE) contract for
Apollo testing and checkout
equipment, firing of Brainerd Holmes
13236 &
13289
Transcript 23 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
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Shea, Joseph F.
McCurdy, Howard
1990-09-28 Shea's decision to join NASA, ease of moving from
industry to government and
back again, Shea's request to go to Johnson Space Center
(JSC) and become Apollo
Spacecraft Program manager, value of ground testing by
industry, Shea's Apollo
program management style, contrast between Apollo
program management and
Space Shuttle program management, attitude
towards risk, all-up launch
vehicle testing during Apollo program, difference in
mission control requirements
for long duration spaceflight, Shea's view of NASA's
18723 Transcript 58 pgs Inside NASA
response to accidents in the
human spaceflight program
Shepard, Adm. Alan B.,
Jr.
Sohier, Walter 1964-06-12 Meetings with President Kennedy, efforts by
astronauts for additional
Mercury flight, Kennedy’s views on astronaut contract
with Life Magazine,
cooperation with Soviet Union, importance of space
program to USA, meeting
with Vice President Johnson
2039 &
13239
Transcript 21 pgs Kennedy Administration
Oral History
Project
Copyrighted by John F.
Kennedy
Library
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Shepard, Adm. Alan B.,
Jr.
Sherrod, Robert
1972-12-14 Next astronaut selection, Shepard's decision to golf on
the moon during Apollo 14
extravehicular activity (EVA), Ed Mitchell's ESP
experiments, contracts for
astronauts' stories, Shepard's investments, astronaut
investments, Apollo 1 (AS-
204) crew widows North American Aviation (NAA)
lawsuit, Apollo 1 (AS-204)
fire, controversy over commemorative covers
carried on lunar flights,
Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) astronauts, comparing
Shepard's first and second
flights, cancelled MA-10 flight, Shepard's decision to
have operation to fix
Meniere's Disease and his Christian Scientist faith,
number of astronauts who
served in the Navy
13239 &
13290
Transcript 35 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Shepard, Adm. Alan B.,
Jr.
Burke, James 1979-05-17 Astronaut selection and training for Project Mercury,
selection for 1st flight, lunar
landing decision, relationship between astronauts and
astronaut relations with
media, astronauts influence on training, missions,
hardware development and
testing, Apollo 14, science and engineering on Apollo
flights, impact of space flight
on astronauts, technical benefits of space program
2035 Transcript 35 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
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Shepherd, Bill Bingham, Jeffrey
1999-04-28 Space station redesign in 1993, political environment
around space station, Shuttle
program, Space Station program at Johnson Space
Center (JSC), NASA
relations with Congress, relations with Russians as an
International Space Station
(ISS) partner, NASA relations with White House
18974 Transcript 25 pgs
Shepherd, Sherrod, 1971-04-12 James Webb, Marshall Space 13290 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
James T. Robert Flight Center (MSFC) (unpublished) reorganization
Sherrod, Robert
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-06-14 Arrangement for Sherrod's "inside access" at NASA for
his Apollo book, Webb's
resignation, Sherrod's access to Webb, Webb's personality
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
Shirley,
Donna
Butler, Carol 2001-07-17 Mars Voyager, automated
drug identification instrument, Mariner Venus
Mercury, alternative energy
sources during 1970s, JPL role in Space Station
Freedom (SSF), move to
Mars rovers, placing a Mars rover on Pathfinder, NASA
Mars program planning, Dan
Goldin, managing the Sojourner rover team, women
in engineering
3636 Transcript 120 pgs Herstory Project
Shoemaker, Eugene
Burke, James 1979-05-14 Falmouth, handling lunar samples, Apollo involvement
of different scientific
specialists, prioritizing landing sites, lunar
information applied to earth
2050 Transcript 18 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
Sidey, Hugh Sherrod,
Robert
1970-10-08 1962 confrontation between
Jerome Wiesner and Wernher von Braun over lunar orbit
rendezvous (LOR)
13240
& 13290
Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Siegel, Gerald Holmes, Jay 1968-06-25 President Johnson’s involvement with passage of
National Aeronautics and
Space Act of 1958
2066 Notes 5 pgs
Siegel, Gerald Emme, Eugene
1976-06-08 Congress and the formation of NASA, Senate Special
Committee on Space and
Aeronautics (1957-1958)
13459 Transcript 60 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
Sikorsky, Igor Bonney, Walter
1971-10-26 Design of flying boats, NACA designed airfoils for
helicopter blades, NACA
contribution to aeronautics
2058 &
19511
Transcript 5 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Silveira, Milton A.
Guilmartin, Joe
Mauer, John 1984-11-14 Beginnings of Johnson Space Center (JSC) work on Space
Shuttle program, Max Faget's
straight wing orbiter design, trajectory studies for Shuttle
design configurations,
ASSET and PRIME reentry tests and influence on Shuttle
19887 Transcript 20 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Phase A designs, Space
Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) design and performance as
necessary to Shuttle success
as a vehicle, JSC in house design study running in
parallel to Shuttle Phase A
studies, 1970 Shuttle commercialization study
"DC-3 study", Convair
Shuttle design configuration, Lockheed "Star Clipper"
Shuttle concept, developing
the concept behind the Shuttle thermal protection
system (TPS), US Air Force
testing and critique of straight wing Shuttle orbiter
design
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Silverstein, Abraham
("Abe")
Haggerty, J.J. 1951-10-12 Research in turboprop, ducted fan, turbine, and
ramjet engines;
thermodynamics and materials, de-icing of jet
planes, ramjet rockets,
helicopter propulsion systems
2070 Transcript 4 pgs Copyrighted by American
Aviation
Magazine
Silverstein,
Abraham
("Abe")
Levine,
Arthur
1962-04-26 NACA Headquarters and
field offices, origins of new
research work, sub-
committee structure, NACA
as independent of outside groups (military, WAS, IAS),
Universities and NACA,
NACA public affairs
2068 Transcript 4 pgs
Silverstein,
Abraham ("Abe")
Merrifield,
Robert
1969-01-30 Formation of Space Task
Group (STG), formation of Project Mercury, Silverstein's
naming of Mercury program,
addition of Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and
Manned Spacecraft Center
(MSC), initiation of Gemini program as bridge between
Mercury and Apollo
programs
18994 Transcript 11 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
Silverstein, Abraham
("Abe")
Bonney, Walter
1973-09-20 Legislation allowing NACA to use any government
employees interested in space
program, NACA organization, wind tunnel
research on drag and laminar
flow wings
2069, 2070,
19511
Transcript 15 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Silverstein,
Abraham ("Abe")
Sloop, John 1974-05-29 Liquid hydrogen as aircraft
fuel, NACA HQ and field centers relationships,
organization of new research
ideas, subcommittee structure, organization and
success of NACA
2070 Transcript 152 pgs Liquid Hydrogen
as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959
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Silverstein, Abraham
("Abe")
Dawson, Virginia P.
1984-10-05 Lewis Research Center (LeRC) research, NACA
Supersonic Panel, early
NACA and growth during WWII, contractor companies,
cooling problems with B-29,
ramjet and nuclear propulsion
2070 Transcript 27 pgs Engines and Innovation
Silverstein,
Abraham
("Abe")
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-12-16 Silverstein's view of Webb's
strengths as an administrator,
Silverstein's return to Lewis
Research Center (LeRC),
decision to send Centaur project to LeRC, Webb's
preference for management
structures over personnel-focused management, Hugh
Dryden, Robert Seamans
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
Simon, William
Mauer, John 1984-03-22 Simon's work on design and testing Apollo fuel cells at
the Johnson Space Center
(JSC), difference in level of design and testing needed for
Space Shuttle fuel cells
versus Apollo fuel cells, efforts to improve fuel cells
during Apollo program that
led to development of Shuttle fuel cells, selection of Apollo
fuel cell design, interaction
between in house JSC fuel cell development programs
and development programs
by industry, Shuttle fuel cell design, selection of Shuttle
fuel cell design, resistance to
design changes by contractor and program management,
more latitude for contractors
in Shuttle program than Apollo, program
management structure on
four levels for Shuttle program, intercenter
relationships between JSC and the Marshall Space
19887 Transcript 44 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Flight Center (MSFC) for
Shuttle development, NASA management promotion
policy
Interviewee Interviewee Interviewee Interviewer Interviewer Date Topics List HRC Format Length Source/Project Copyright
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Simons, Sherrod, 1972-09-28 James Webb, Chris Kraft's 13241 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
Howard Robert opinion of space journalists & (unpublished) 13290
Simpson, George L.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-01-09 Simpson hired by Webb as Assistant Administrator for
Public Affairs, Source
Evaluation Boards (SEB), Webb's interest in
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
management processes,
technology utilization, Robert McNamara
Simpson,
John
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-08-01 NASA Sustaining
Universities Program (SUP) and Office of University
Affairs under Webb, Webb's
efforts to build up space science programs
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Sisson, James Gruen, Adam 1988-04-20 Sisson's career at NASA, management organization,
Space Station Program Office
Levels 1 through 3 meetings and organization, staffing and
budget problems, PSC
2092 Transcript 31 pgs NASA Culture Study
(unpublished)
Sjoberg, Sherrod, 1972-07-26 NASA FY1972 budget, 13242 Notes 1 pg Apollo History Sigurd Robert improvements to North (unpublished)
American Aviation (NAA)
after Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
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Sjoberg, Sigurd
Sherrod, Robert
1972-07-28 Sjoberg's work with NACA in aircraft stability and
control research, joining the
Space Task Group (STG) in 1959, mission control during
Apollo 13 flight and accident,
probability of an accident similar to Apollo 13 on
previous flights, public
affairs aspect of Apollo 13 flight after accident, Chris
Kraft's decision to move from
13242 &
13290
Transcript 22 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
flight control to management, use of computers during
Apollo program, technology
developments necessary for Apollo, Chris Kraft's
management style, Robert
Gilruth, Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL)
Slade, Martin A.
Butrica, Andrew
1994-05-24 Lunar laser ranging experiments, Magellan probe,
Voyager Neptune flyby, use
of radar to detect ice in Mars polar regions, radar
astronomy at Saturn's rings,
radar astronomy of Saturn's moon Titan, discovery of ice
on Mercury
18919 Transcript 35 pgs To See the Unseen
Slayton,
Donald K. ("Deke")
Merrifield,
Robert
1967-10-17 Management of Mercury 7
astronauts, Slayton's grounding from space flight,
reorganization of astronaut
office with Slayton as Chief Astronaut, selection of
astronaut candidates,
responsibilities of Flight
Crew Support Division,
scientist astronauts,
astronauts and public affairs, astronaut finances
18994 Transcript 12 pgs MSC History
(unpublished)
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DMS
#
Format Length Source/Project Copyright
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Slayton, Donald K.
("Deke")
Sherrod, Robert
1971-08-02 Entering Apollo 1 (AS-204) on launch pad prior to fire,
delay in announcing deaths
of Grissom, White and Chaffee
13290 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Slayton,
Donald K. ("Deke")
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-07-26 Deke Slayton's grounding
during Mercury program, Astronaut Office, Apollo 15
commemorative covers,
Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Apollo 7 crew, selection of
Apollo 11 crew, astronaut
public appearances, and selection of astronauts for
flight crews
13243
& 13290
Transcript 18 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Slayton,
Donald K. ("Deke")
Ezell, Edward 1976-03-02 Apollo Soyuz Test Project
(ASTP) training and flight
8890 Transcript 19 pgs The Partnership
Sloop, John L. 1969-11-14 Personnel involved with early Saturn development, Abe
Silverstein and Wernher von
Braun antagonism
2107 Notes 2 pgs
Smalley, Richard E.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie
Cox, Kenneth 2000-01-22 Buckminsterfullerene, Bucky Balls, nanotechnology,
quantum electron dynamics,
carbon nanotubes, winning the Nobel Prize for chemistry
18976 Transcript 24 pgs
Smith, Eric Dick, Steven
J.
2004-01-23 Studies of the scientific value
of fifth Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing
mission, mission safety of a
fifth servicing mission, cancellation of fifth HST
servicing mission, plans for
HST and spares after
cancellation
19820 Transcript 27 pgs Hubble Servicing
(unpublished)
Smith, George Sherrod, Robert
1970-09-14 Crew Compartment Project Engineer at CARR for
Apollo 1 (AS-204)
13290 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
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Smith, Margaret C.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-09-28 Formation of the US Senate Space Committee, Webb's
relationship with senators on
the committee, Senator Walter Mondale, Senator
Clinton Anderson, Smith's
view of the NASA space program, Lyndon Johnson as
a senator, Smith's view on
Webb, Webb's ability to handle Congress
7106 Notes 7 pgs Powering Apollo
Smith, Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 damage during 2130 Transcript 6 pgs Richard G. launch &
7591
Smith, William B.
Butrica, Andrew
1993-09-29 Venus radar astronomy, radar test of theory of relativity,
use of computers in radar
astronomy, Smith's work at Lincoln Laboratory
18919 Transcript 30 pgs To See the Unseen
Smull,
Thomas K.
Levine,
Arthur
1960-08-00 Success of NACA, role of
NACA Industry Consulting Committee, NACA’s role, response as research and
supervising agency; coordination with scientific
community, NACA
committee and subcommittee structure, NACA cooperation
with military
2141 Notes 22 pgs
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Snyder, Sam Ray, Thomas 1972-07-05 Position in Office of Launch Vehicle Programs (OLVP),
response of launch director,
coord and relationships between NASA HQ, field
centers, and USAF; OLVP
and Office of Space Flight Programs (OSFP) and launch
operations division relations,
contract/labor relations, Kennedy Space Center
(KSC) Corp of Engineers
work, launch pad operations, proposed launch sites,
Navy’s effort for large launch vehicles at sea
2146 Transcript 25 pgs
Soffen, Gerald A.
Pitts, John 1980-02-28 Work at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on
Biosatellite project, Project
Scientist for Viking, results of Viking Project, NASA life
sciences progam In 1960s,
life sciences research:
biology, exobiology,
exposure of living organisms
to space, and biogenesis
2150 Transcript 40 pgs The Human Factor
Sokolik, Johnson, 2008-06-26 High altitude life support, 19863 Transcript 33 pgs NASA Experts
James G. Sandra pressure suits, ER-2 aircraft, Oral History SR-71 aircraft, U-2 aircraft Project
Soper, Josie A.
Wright, Rebecca
2006-04-19 NASA Headquarters in the early 1960s, work in the
Office of Public Affairs,
dealing with the media, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
Apollo 13 accident, working
Apollo launches, work in the Office of Legislative Affairs,
Congressional relations,
Gerry Griffin, Joe Allen, Robert Allnutt, work in the
Office of the Administrator,
James Beggs, William Graham, Challenger (STS-
51L) accident, Richard Truly,
Dan Goldin, Michael Griffin,
19822 Transcript 77 pgs NASA Administrators
Oral History
Project
moving the Office of the
Administrator, impact on NASA of September 11,
2001 terrorist attack, Sean
O’Keefe, Columbia (STS-107) accident, Shana Dale,
and Equal Employment
Opportunity (EEO) at NASA
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Sorenson, Kaysen, Carl 1964-03-26 Priority and opinion of space 2163 Transcript 8 pgs Kennedy Copyrighted
Theodore C. program under Kennedy & Administration by John F. administration and space race 12487 Oral History Kennedy
with USSR Project Library
Sorenson, Theodore C.
Logsdon, John 1967-10-05 Takeover of Kennedy Administration from
Eisenhower, spending of
defense and space program, FY 1961-1963 NASA
budgets, debate over need for
large manned space flight program, setting space
policy, lunar landing decision
2162 Transcript 34 pgs John F. Kennedy and the Race to
the Moon
Soule, Hartley
A.
Bonney,
Walter
1973-03-28 NACA career, aeronautical
research, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic
flight; X-1, D-558, and X-15
aircraft
2165
& 19511
Transcript 20 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
Southwood, Krige, John 2007-06-16 European Space Agency 11183 Transcript 39 pgs NASA in the
David (ESA) policies on World
international cooperation
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Speer, Fridthof A.
("Fred")
McMahon, A. Michal
1986-10-09 Speer assigned to track V-1 and V-2 missiles for the
Luftwaffe during World War
II, influence of German science fiction on Speer,
decision to emigrate to US in
1955 to work at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency
(ABMA) on rocketry, Speer's
work on flight evaluation at ABMA, contacts with
Wernher von Braun, change
from ABMA to NASA, Speer's creation of a mission
control center at Marshall
Space Flight Center (MSFC) to support Apollo flights,
Speer's role as project
manager of the High Energy Astronomy Observatory
(HEAO), Speer's shift to
management, the difference between operations and
project management,
managing the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project in
1980-1983, selection of TRW as prime contractor for
HEAO, Perkin Elmer's role in
HST, shifts in NASA management style from the
1960s to the 1980s
3579 Transcript 25 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Spencer, Emme, 1973-09-27 V-2 rocket testing in US after 2169 Transcript 38 pgs Early NASA Nelson W. Eugene WWII, Stever Committee, & History
creation and organization of 13460 (unpublished)
NASA
Splawn,
James
Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab anomaly upon launch,
research on special shields or parasails to decrease
temperature inside Skylab,
rescue mission of Skylab 2 crew
2174
& 7591
Transcript 33 pgs
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Staats, Elmer Turner, Robert
1964-07-13 Transfer of Bureau of Budget (BoB) from Treasury
Department to Executive
Office of the President during Franklin Roosevelt
administration, BoB
involvement in creating Presidential staff system
during Truman
administration, formalization of National Security Council
(NSC) and Cabinet during
Eisenhower administration, BoB preparation for
transition between
Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, changes to
BoB role during Kennedy
administration, Ted Sorenson, David Bell, Kenny
O'Donnell, Year 2000
Program, civil defense program, Kennedy's interest
in science and technology
programs, formation of Office of Science and
Technology
13245 Transcript 36 pgs Kennedy Administration
Oral History
Project
Copyright by John F.
Kennedy
Library
Staats, Elmer Lambright, W. Henry
1984-10-12 Webb at the Bureau of Budget (BoB), Webb's
activities in science policy,
Webb's relationship with Congress, Webb's
management style
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Staats, Elmer Lambright, W.
Henry
1989-11-10 Webb at the Bureau of
Budget (BoB), cultivating relationships with Truman
administration, Webb's
efforts to include science advice at the State
Department, Webb's role at
the State Department, Webb and President Kennedy,
Webb's management style at
NASA, Webb and Dwight Eisenhower, Truman and the
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
Department of Defense
(DoD), Webb's efforts to assist Truman re DoD
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Stack, John Hallion,
Richard
1971-05-19 Compressibility and
transonic research, NACA subcommittee on High-Speed
Aerodynamics, X-1 and X-3
projects
2181 Transcript 8 pgs
Stadd, Courtney A.
Wright, Rebecca
2003-01-07 Space commercialization, Space Shuttle, Challenger,
Commercial Space Launch
Act of 1984
18980 Transcript 30 pgs NASA Administrators
Oral History
Project
Stadd,
Courtney A.
Wright,
Rebecca
2003-01-18 National Space Council,
space commercialization, Industrial Space Facility,
Office of Commercial Space
Transportation
18979 Transcript 20 pgs NASA
Administrators Oral History
Project
Stadd, Courtney A.
Wright, Rebecca
2003-11-19 Columbia (STS-107) accident, investigation, and
memorials; NASA Transition
Team, Dan Goldin, selection of Sean O’Keefe as NASA Administrator, September 11,
Freedom to Manage, commercialization
18978 Transcript 72 pgs NASA Administrators
Oral History
Project
Stafford, Maj.
Gen. Thomas P.
Furlong,
William
1967-00-00 Stafford building a boat for
his daughter, Stafford's work on Apollo mission planning,
Stafford's plans after flying
on Apollo, piloting reflexes applied to space flight,
Stafford's management
philosophy, project management as a test pilot,
risk of death inherent in
being a test pilot or astronaut
13284 Transcript 23 pgs Copyrighted
by World Book
Encyclopedia
Science Service
(WBESS)
Stafford, Maj. Gen. Thomas
P.
Ezell, Edward 1976-04-06 Tom Stafford's participation in Soyuz 11 cosmonauts'
funeral, Russian language
training, Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) training and
flight, ASTP benefits to the
US and the Soviet Union
2192 Transcript 34 pgs The Partnership
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Starr, Robert Rosenfeld, Susan
2004-03-30 Educator Astronaut (EA) program, EA astronaut
selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 9 pgs Educator Astronaut
Program (EAP)
History (unpublished)
Stein, Joseph
A.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-10-23 X-15 program safety, safety
concerns in manned space flight prior to Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire
13290 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Steinhoff,
Ernst A.
Emme,
Eugene
1973-09-14 Transfer of technology of V-
2 to Russia and USA at the end of WWII, Operation
Paperclip
2203 Transcript 34 pgs
Stephens,
Richard
Lambright, W.
Henry
1987-10-01 James Webb's method of
educating people
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Stephens,
Richard
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-06-14 Webb and Senator Gordon
Allot 1968 budget wrangle, formation of National
Academy of Public
Administration (NAPA)
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
Stephenson, Jack
Fries, Sylvia 1985-08-08 Stephenson's decision to become an aeronautical
engineer, joining Ames
Research Center (ARC) as part of Navy program during
World War II, culture
changes at ARC from 1940s to 1970s
3577 Transcript 14 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Stern, S. Alan Damohn,
Mark
1998-06-03 Role during Carter’s
administration, Space Shuttle program, Space Shuttle
program costs
18986 Transcript 24 pgs
Stevenson, Maj. Gen.
John
Sherrod, Robert
1971-01-16 Apollo 14 splashdown 13290 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Stever, H.
Guyford
Emme,
Eugene
1974-02-02 NACA Committee on Space
Technology
2212 Notes 10 pgs
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Stewart, Carrington M.
McMahon, A. Michal
1985-09-23 Stewart's study of electrical engineering in the late 1950s,
work on missile destruct
systems at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR),
work at Manned Spacecraft
Center (MSC) on biomedical and communications systems,
balance of in-house and
3577 Transcript 22 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
contractor designs and construction of systems,
Stewart's move into project
management, lack of career development opportunities at
Johnson Space Center (JSC),
management by exception, NASA as a dynamic
organization
Stocking, William
1975-08-19 Martin Marietta Corporation responsibility for Skylab
astronaut training for
extravehicular activity (EVA) and experiment simulations,
performance of Skylab 4
crew, scheduling of experiments
2221 Transcript 18 pgs
Stofan,
Andrew J.
Gruen, Adam 1987-11-13 Stofan's role as Director of
Lewis Research Center (LeRC) from 1982, problems
with strategic planning,
politics affecting centers inside and outside NASA,
determining location
responsibility for Space Station Freedom (SSF)
2225 Transcript 51 pgs Space Station
Freedom History (unpublished)
Stofan, Andrew J.
Gruen, Adam 1988-03-07 Space Station Freedom (SSF), NASA budget,
decision to leave job
associated with space station, politics and technical
decision regarding the space
station
2225 Transcript 37 pgs Space Station Freedom History
(unpublished)
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#
Stone, Don Lambright, W. Henry
1991-02-16 Webb as director of Bureau of Budget (BoB) during
Truman administration, BoB
and international relations, Truman as a president
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Storms,
Harrison ("Stormy")
Ertel, Ivan 1966-06-06 North American Aviation
(NAA), spacecraft design, Apollo command and service
module (CSM), program
management, Apollo program, ground support
equipment (GSE)
19541 Transcript 9 pgs Also used for
…Before This Decade is Out
Storms, Harrison
("Stormy")
Burke, James 1979-05-14 North American Aviation (NAA) proposal and winning
Apollo spacecraft contract,
X-15 project experience by NAA, systems and
equipment reliability testing,
relations with NASA employees, lunar orbit
rendezvous (LOR) for lunar
landing, Phillips Report, Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and
its impact
2232 Transcript 45 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
Strangway,
David
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-07-27 Possibility the moon had a
magnetic field early in its geological history, lunar
rover navigation system,
lunar seismometers, data retrieval system, Apollo
Lunar Surface Experiments
Package (ALSEP), heat flow experiment, drilling for lunar
core samples on Apollo 15
and Apollo 16, history of lunar impact craters, conflict
between scientists and
engineers over lunar landing site selection
13290 Transcript 11 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Strauss, H. Kurt
1968-05-21 Langley Research Center (LaRC) Space Task Group
(STG), Project Boomerang,
Project Apollo, Nova launch vehicle, Golovin Committee
603 Transcript 6 pgs
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Strickland, Zack
Sherrod, Robert
1971-07-16 Phillips Report, North American Aviation (NAA)
corporate culture, Lee
Atwood, NAA involvement in Apollo 1 (AS-204) rescue
operations
13290 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Strickland, Sherrod, 1971-07-19 North American Aviation 13290 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
Zack Robert (NAA), Rocco Petrone, (unpublished) Wally Schirra, Gordon
Cooper
Strothman, Sherrod, 1969-12-17 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire from 13290 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History Telephone James Robert Associate Press reporter’s (unpublished) interview
point of view
Stroud,
William
Emme,
Eugene
1973-09-21 Manhattan Project work,
experiments with V-2 rockets, atmospheric research
with meteorological balloons
and rockets, meteorological research and International
2239
& 13460
Transcript 106 pgs Early NASA
History (unpublished)
Geophysical Year (IGY)
experiments with Army Signal Corps, transfer of
Signal Corps scientists to
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Explorer 1 project,
Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC) attempt to take over all nuclear propulsion
research, Stever Committee
and reorganization of NACA into NASA, Tiros satellite
project transfer to NASA;
Juno 2, Vanguard 2, and Nimbus satellite projects
Stuckmeyer, Sherrod, 1971-11-10 Award of Apollo lunar 13290 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
William E. Robert roving vehicle (LRV) (unpublished)
contract to Boeing
Stuhlinger, Ernst
Emme, Eugene
1974-03-07 Operation Paperclip, Wernher von Braun’s lunar mission, Project SLUG,
ABMA, Project Orbiter, transfer to NASA,
development of Redstone
2241, 13460,
13491
Transcript 39 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
launch vehicle, early lunar
mission studies
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Stuhlinger,
Ernst
Hunley, John
("Dill")
1994-09-20 Ernst Steinhoff’s role in A-4
guidance and control system development, acceleration,
distance, velocity, Muehlner,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) vs. German R&D, fuel
for propulsion, Nazi politics
affecting rocket R&D
2241
& 19400
Transcript 80 pgs Launch Vehicle
Technology
Sullivan, Timothy L.
McMahon, A. Michal
1986-05-13 Sullivan's education as an aeronautical engineer,
working as co-op at Lewis
Research Center (LeRC), graduate education at
Caltech, spending two years
with Peace Corps in Pakistan, return to LeRC to work in
Materials and Structures
Division on pressure vessels, advanced composites,
structural analysis of wind
turbines, transition to
computer modeling for
material and structural
analysis, Sullivan's decision to work in Centaur program,
testing Shuttle Centaur stage,
career advancement for engineers at LeRC, positives
and negatives of working for
NASA
3578 Transcript 22 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Swenson, Byron
Fries, Sylvia 1985-08-09 Swenson's work at Lockheed on missile reentry design,
space flight mission analysis
work at Ames Research Center (ARC), engineers as
managers, scientists versus
engineers
3577 Transcript 19 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Syvertson, Bonney, 1974-09-25 NACA research at Ames in 2257 Transcript 9 pgs NACA History
Clarence A. Walter supersonic flight, design of (unpublished) supersonic wind tunnel; X-20
Dyna-Soar project, M-2
lifting body research, Ames
Laboratory management
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#
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and Notes
Syvertson,
Clarence A.
Hallion,
Richard
1979-03-07 NACA research at Ames in
supersonic flight, design of supersonic wind tunnel; X-20
Dyna-Soar project, M-2
lifting body research, Ames Laboratory management
2257 Transcript 22 pgs
Tanner, E. Ray
Gruen, Adam 1989-06-29 Program, technical, and real systems engineering; 1980s
Phillips Report, recruiting for
Level 2 Space Station, staffing problems due to local
housing costs and
environmental concerns, management and
organization disputes for
Space Station, safety precautions
2258 Transcript 34 pgs Space Station Freedom History
(unpublished)
Tatischeff,
Alexis
Ezell, Edward 1974-04-30 Tatischeff's role as interpreter
for United Nations, State Department, and for NASA
on Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
(ASTP)
2261 Transcript 36 pgs The Partnership
Taub, William P.
Johnson, Sandra
2006-11-08 Decades long career at NACA and NASA, Taub's
role as photographer of
astronauts and others
19823 Transcript 28 pgs NASA Administrators
Oral History
Project
Taylor, Ada 1975-07-22 Interpreter for Group 1,
documentation, at Rockwell International for Apollo-
Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)
2263 Transcript 5 pgs The Partnership
Teague, Olin E. ("Tiger")
Sherrod, Robert
1969-04-01 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire – Teague viewed as accident,
no one and everyone at fault,
House committee hearings on
Apollo 1 fire
13290 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Teague, Olin
E. ("Tiger")
Logsdon, John 1970-08-13 Space Shuttle decision,
funding of Shuttle program, getting public and
Congressional support for
space program
2274
& 19887
Transcript 20 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
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#
Teller, Edward
Baucom, Donald
1987-07-06 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
16766 Transcript 9 pgs
Thagard,
Norman
Swanson,
Glenn
1995-08-14 Mir Space Station, Shuttle-
Mir program, communications with the
ground, extravehicular
activity (EVA), Russian language training, space
food, Russian space program
vs. US space program
18987 Transcript 27 pgs Copyrighted
by Countdown
Magazine
Thibodaux, Guilmartin, Mauer, John 1983-12-12 Dyna-Soar in USAF leading 2290 Notes 4 pgs Space Shuttle Includes 5 Joseph G. Joe to Mercury, Scout launch Decision inch floppy
vehicles disk
Thibodaux,
Joseph G.
Guilmartin,
Joe
Mauer, John 1983-12-12 Johnson Space Center (JSC)
1969 in house Space Shuttle design study, Jim
Chamberlin, 1950s US Air
Force (USAF) space plane studies, Thibodaux's research
work with Pilotless Aircraft
Research Division (PARD) on hypersonics and reentry,
development of solid
propulsion rockets in the 1950s, effect of desktop
computers on engineering in
the 1970s, NASA management decision
making, ability to bend rules
to accomplish tasks under NACA and stricter
management under NASA,
beginnings of Mercury program at NACA in 1957,
disbanding of PARD under
NASA, ASSET and PRIME reentry vehicles, design and
development of Space Shuttle
Main Engine (SSME), Space Shuttle program management
at JSC, integration of Shuttle
propulsion systems between JSC and Marshall Space
Flight Center (MSFC),
Wernher von Braun and
19887 Transcript 50 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
"German tradition" of
management at MSFC
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#
Thibodaux,
Joseph G.
Faget,
Maxime A.
Purser, Paul
E.
Davis-Floyd,
Robbie
Cox, Kenneth 1996-09-09 NACA Pilotless Aircraft
Research Division (PARD), formation of NASA, Space
Task Group (STG), Johnson
Space Center (JSC), Mercury spacecraft design, space
medicine, Little Joe, lunar
orbit rendezvous (LOR), safety
18985 Transcript 75 pgs Space Stories
Oral History Project
Thompson, Floyd L.
Sherrod, Robert
1969-09-10 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire investigation, explaining
cause of fire to public in
layman's terms, tape recordings of Apollo 1
astronauts final words,
formation of Apollo 1 Review Board
13290 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Thompson, Rusnak, 2002-04-29 Thompson’s NASA career, 18108 Transcript 22 pgs
James R. Kevin role a member of Challenger (STS-51L) accident
investigation team
Thompson, Brun, Nancy 1976-05-19 M2-F1 responsibility, USAF 2313 Notes 2 pgs Milton O. role, end of HL-10 flights,
lifting body program
applications to Space Shuttle
Thompson, Jones, A.R. 1973-06-12 Skylab 1 damage during 2314 Transcript 24 pgs
Robert launch & 7591
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#
Thompson, Robert
Ezell, Edward 1981-05-12 History of Shuttle in three stages from concept to
development from
Thompson's point of view as Shuttle program manager,
Space Shuttle cost and
schedule overruns as part of the realities of a development
program, Space Shuttle
thermal protection system (TPS) development,
differences in development
program management from Apollo to Shuttle, lead center
management concept in
Shuttle program, Thompson's view that Shuttle budget
constraints had value for
program development, two types of safety problems in
manned space flight:
carelessness and fundamental design flaws, key personnel
in Space Shuttle program
history, NASA's strength in its in house technical abilities
and ability to create government-industry teams
that work well, Thompson's
concern over President Carter's and Reagan's focus
on being outsiders improving
government will damage federal workforce capabilities
2314 &
19887
Transcript 37 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Thompson,
Thomas W.
Butrica,
Andrew
1994-09-29 Lunar radar astronomy, lunar
radar mapping, Apollo
landing site selection, Venus
Orbiting Imaging Radar
(VOIR), Magellan probe
18919 Transcript 28 pgs To See the
Unseen
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Thomson, Jerry
Guilmartin, Joe
1984-07-17 Feasibility studies and testing of high pressure liquid
propulsion rocket engines
during the mid 1960s, Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME)
concept studies at Marshall
Space Flight Center (MSFC), consideration of aerospike
engine for Shuttle, selection
of Pratt & Whitney as SSME prime contractor, differences
in design with reusable liquid
propulsion rocket engines instead of expendable
engines, SSME testing
19887 Transcript 11 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Timmons,
Ken
1975-08-20 Skylab multiple docking
adapter, “wet” vs. “dry” workshop, Martin Marietta
Corporation relationship with
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), coordination and
integration of Skylab
experiments, Earth resources experiments
2324 Transcript 35 pgs
Tindall, Sherrod, 1970-02-05 Apollo night splashdowns, 13290 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
Howard W. Robert Apollo command module (unpublished) (CM) guidance and
navigation system
Tindall,
Howard W.
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-04-23 Creation of director of flight
operations job, preparing for Skylab flight operations, data
collection and processing
from Apollo flights, Tindallgrams, Queen
Frederika of Greece wanting
to become an astronaut, potential uses for Space
Shuttle
13251
& 13290
Transcript 20 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Tindall, Howard W.
Logsdon, John 1989-07-21 Discussion among key players in Apollo Program
including Tindall, George
Mueller, Owen Morris, Maxime Faget, Robert
Gilruth, and Christopher
Kraft re managing the Apollo program; NASA
management in the Space
Shuttle era; and lessons of the Apollo program
18924 Transcript 80 pgs Panel discussion
Tischler, Adelbert O.
Ray, Thomas 1972-06-19 Office of Space Flight Development during NASA
organization, F-1 engine
development, testing, contract competition, and
selection of Rocketdyne; J-2
and H-1 engine development, Western Operations Office in
Apollo program, Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire and NASA reorganization, management
of liquid propellant supplies
and facilities
13460 Transcript 59 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
Tischler,
Adelbert O.
Sloop, John 1974-01-25 Early career, rocket lab
expert at NASA HQ, Office of Applications, NASA
organization, theory on rapid
NASA growth, Abe Silverstein, General
Ostrander, Wernher von
Braun, ARPA, launch vehicle engine R&D, absorption of
USAF programs by NASA,
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC); determining
propulsion methods; PERT,
Saturn 5 F-1 engine
2330 Transcript 63 pgs Liquid Hydrogen
as a Propulsion Fuel, 1945-1959
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Tousey, Richard
Compton, David
1976-04-20 Opinion of manned vs. unmanned programs, Apollo
Telescope Mount (ATM)
project, development, design, and use on Skylab
2354 Transcript 25 pgs Living and Working in
Space
Trimpi,
Robert E.
Fries, Sylvia 1986-11-14 Trimpi's education in
aeronautical engineering at Stanford and Cornell, service
in World War II with the US
Army Air Forces (USAAF), decision to work at Langley
Research Center (LaRC) in
1949 after graduation, ability to choose own research at
LaRC, decision to move his
branch into high speed flight and reentry in mid-1950s,
switch to hypersonics after
Apollo 13 flight, move to engineering management in
the 1970s, difference in
research engineering and engineering management,
increase in bureaucracy from
NACA to NASA, scientists vs engineers, difference in
technical qualifications of
NACA and NASA managers, increase in contracting, LaRC
center culture, shift in
NACA/NASA culture from research to development
3578 Transcript 24 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
Truax, Robert Christman, 1972-03-16 Robert Goddard, Truax's 2368 Transcript 29 pgs
C. Albert rocket work with the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
(BuAer)
Truax, Robert
C.
Hunley, John
("Dill")
2002-03-27 Truax's rocket work for the
U.S. Navy Bureau of
Aeronautics (BuAer),
submarine-launched ballistic missiles, Aerojet, Truax's
association with Evel
Knievel, and commercial rocketry
18988 Transcript 57 pgs Launch Vehicle
Technology
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DMS
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Truly, Richard H.
Guilmartin, Joe
Mauer, John 1983-09-16 Shuttle digital fly-by-wire flight controls and Truly's
experiences with fly-by-wire
controls in aircraft, potential drawbacks of fly-by-wire
systems, flying the first
Shuttle night launch and landing on STS-8, Space
Shuttle landing
characteristics, selection of pilot astronauts for Manned
Orbiting Laboratory (MOL)
and NASA, mission patches, sensations of launch and
reentry
19887 Transcript 9 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Truly, Richard H.
Wright, Rebecca
2003-06-16 Military career and work on Manned Orbiting Laboratory
(MOL), and NASA career
including work in astronaut program and Skylab
19829 Transcript 15 pgs JSC Oral History Project
Truszynski,
Gerald M.
Grimwood,
James
1966-09-13 Gemini Program Operations
Chief in Office Of Space
Flight Operations, transition
between Mercury and
Gemini, ongoing transition to Apollo
2369 Transcript 1 pg On the Shoulders
of Titans
Truszynski, Gerald M.
Hallion, Richard
1971-05-21 Instrument Division at NACA High Speed Flight
Station (HSFS), XS-1 and X-
1 test flights
2370 &
6691
Transcript 12 pgs On the Frontier
Tucker,
Morrison
Lambright, W.
Henry
1989-12-02 Webb as secretary to
Congressman Pugh, Webb's ability to get along with
others, Kirkpatrick
Foundation, Webb as head of Republic Supply Company
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
Turantsky, Clem
Brooks, Courtney
1971-12-02 Bell Aerospace Company contract for development of
fuel lines and valves for
Apollo lunar module (LM)
2387 Transcript 11 pgs Chariots for Apollo
Turner,
Harold
Hallion,
Richard
1971-11-11 Ramjet and jet research
during WWII
2388 Transcript 5 pgs
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Tyler, G. Leonard
Butrica, Andrew
1994-05-10 Radar experiments on Apollo 14, 15, and 17; radar study of
Earth ocean waves, Voyager
radio astronomy experiment, use of radar mapping in
selecting Viking landing site,
Magellan radar experiment, Cassini radar experiment,
future of radar astronomy
18919 Transcript 77 pgs To See the Unseen
Ullberg, Alan
D.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-02-04 James Webb papers 13290 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Ullberg, Alan D.
Sherrod, Robert
1969-08-22 Legal assistant’s perspective of Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire
hearings
13290 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Ullberg, Alan
D.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-09-21 James Webb's work for the
Smithsonian Institution
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Ullberg, Alan D.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-10-26 Ullberg's work at NASA as special legal assistant to
Webb, Webb's work on
Smithsonian Board of Regents, Webb and Phillips
Report
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
Ulmer, Ralph
E.
Levine,
Arthur
1960-08-18 NACA relations with Bureau
of Budget (BoB),
Congressional committee staffs and presidents;
comparison of structure of
NACA with NASA, Ulmer's career with NACA at
Langley Memorial
Aeronautical Laboratory (LMAL)
2399 Notes 6 pgs
Ulmer, Ralph E.
Keller, Michael
1966-12-20 1938-1940 propeller research at Langley, switch to position
as assistant to executive
officer at NACA Headquarters
2399 Notes 3 pgs Kitty Hawk to Muroc
Ulmer, Ralph
E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1971-06-01 Selection of Houston as site
for Manned Spacecraft
Center (MSC)
13290 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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and Notes
Underwood, Richard W.
Merrifield, Robert
1968-05-27 Space photography during Gemini program, creating
maps from photographs taken
by astronauts
18994 Transcript 27 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Underwood, Richard W.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-01-23 Photography on Apollo 8 flight, Apollo 8 earthrise
photograph
13290 Notes 6 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Underwood, William J.
Keller, Michael
1966-08-19 NACA/USAF liaison personnel and activities
2401 Notes 2 pgs Kitty Hawk to Muroc
Urey, Harold
C.
Emme,
Eugene
Hall, R.
Cargill
1976-10-18 Organization of space science
during formation of NASA, National Academy of Science
Space Science Board (SSB)
research and recommendations, moon and
meteorite studies, lunar
exploration missions and results, Apollo program
contributions to science
2403
& 13460
Transcript 42 pgs Early NASA
History (unpublished)
Urey, Harold
C.
Jastrow,
Robert
1981-00-00 Ramifications of the Apollo
program
16902 Transcript 26 pgs
Van Leeuwen,
George H.
Launius,
Roger
1986-02-06 WWII US Army Air Force
(USAAF) logistics, post-WWII base closures, USAF
supply and logistics
18989 Transcript 71 pgs
Vesely, Lt.
Gen. David
Taylor, Alotta Bradley,
George
1999-11-05 Development of launch
vehicles for the US military and NASA
18920 Transcript 86 pgs AAAS
Symposium on Developing US
Launch
Capability
Also includes
video of symposium
Vick, Erika Rosenfeld, Susan
2003-05-13 Educator Astronaut (EA) program, EA astronaut
selection, EA application
process
19749 Notes 4 pgs Educator Astronaut
Program (EAP)
History (unpublished)
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Victory, John F.
1960-07-21 Reasons for success of NACA and relations with
Bureau of Budget (BoB),
Department of Defense (DoD), industry, Presidents,
and Congress
2438 Transcript 2 pgs
Victory, John
F.
Emme,
Eugene
1960-08-29 Aeronautics during WWI,
patent dispute, development of Martin B-10 Bomber,
Boeing B-17, North
American P-51 and P-39 aircraft, drafting of NACA
employees, NACA annual
inspection tours, wind tunnels, cooperation with
industry, expanding NACA,
George Lewis trip to Germany before WWII
2438 Notes 4 pgs
Victory, John
F.
Hurley, A.F. 1962-06-29 Aviation history, military
career of Billy Mitchell, effort for united military air
service, effectiveness and
effort for Naval operation, dirigible support, Mitchell
courts- martial, aircraft
industry and national security, aviation in Army
Signal Corps under General
Squire, Navy Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer),
research and development of
cowlings, propellers, multi-engine placement, and WWII
bombers and pursuit planes;
Air Commerce Act and Army Air Corps Act, NACA
organization and first
industry meetings, Hughes’ investigation of Army, Navy,
NACA, and industry affairs,
NACA Congressional relations and funding
2439 Transcript 34 pgs
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Vinograd, Sherman P.
Pitts, John A. 1979-05-10 Biomedical research, effects of weightlessness, long
duration space flight, motion
sickness, Manned Space Flight Experiments Board
(MSFEB), Randolph
Lovelace, relationship with astronauts, Integrated
Medical and Behavioral
Laboratories and Measurement Systems
(IMBLMS), Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire, lunar quarantine, biosatellites, evolution and
organization of life sciences
function at NASA
2445 Transcript 74 pgs The Human Factor
Voas, Robert B.
1964-00-00 Mercury 7 astronaut selection and training, role of human
factors in development of
astronaut training modules and simulators
2449 Transcript 28 pgs
Voas, Robert
B.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-01-12 Astronaut selection process
and criteria for Project
Mercury, difference between
Mercury astronauts and subsequent selected
astronauts, personality traits
of each of the seven Mercury astronauts, lessons learned
from Mercury astronaut
selection
13290 Notes 5 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Vogel, Col.
Lawrence
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-08-22 Biographical information,
Phillips Report, James Webb’s testimony before Congress re Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire, North American
Aviation (NAA) contract
13290 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Vogel, Col. Lawrence
Sherrod, Robert
1969-10-23 James Webb 13290 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
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#
Vogel, Col. Lawrence
Sherrod, Robert
1970-11-25 James Webb’s actions after Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
Phillips Report, issues with
North American Aviation (NAA) Apollo spacecraft
contract
13290 Notes 5 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Vogel, Col.
Lawrence
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-08-01 NASA Executive Secretariat
set up by Webb, Webb as a
"big picture person", Webb
as personnel manager,
Webb's fondness for outside input on NASA programs,
NASA management triad of
Webb, Robert Seamans, and Hugh Dryden, Webb's
internal investigation after
the Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Vogel's rating of Webb as
NASA Administrator
7106 Notes 8 pgs Powering Apollo
Von Braun, Wernher
CIA Office of Scientific
Intelligence
1961-10-03 Soviet space program, Leonid Sedov, Soviet space
personnel's attitude toward
new technical approaches, Soviet participation in
international meetings, and
getting information from Soviet space personnel
19824 Transcript 9 pgs CIA Oral History Program
Von Braun,
Wernher
Sohier, Walter Emme,
Eugene
1964-03-31 President Kennedy’s role in US space program, civilian importance of space program,
Kennedy’s visits to Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Cape Canaveral, and Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC),
Kennedy’s speech at Rice University, space cooperation
between the US and USSR
2627
& 13254
Transcript 23 pgs Kennedy
Administration Oral History
Project
Copyrighted
by John F. Kennedy
Library
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Von Braun, Wernher
Sherrod, Robert
1969-11-19 Safety before scientists on moon, weight of lunar
module (LM), early Space
Shuttle design, Norman Mailer, “Reaching for the Stars” movie, future of von Braun and Huntsville, James Webb, Eberhard Rees
13254 &
13290
Notes 7 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Von Braun, Wernher
Logsdon, John 1970-08-25 Post-Apollo planning, von Braun’s Congressional testimony re: manned Mars
exploration, Skylab, Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
role in NASA integrated
planning, MSFC and Johnson Space Center (JSC), Shuttle
concepts, von Braun’s role in NASA planning, Apollo program
2629 &
19887
Transcript 23 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Von Braun, Wernher
Sherrod, Robert
1970-08-25 Decision to use lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) instead of
earth orbit rendezvous (EOR)
in the Apollo program, Saturn launch vehicles,
Apollo 6 test flight of the
Saturn V rocket, decision to send Apollo 8 on a
circumlunar mission, lunar
module (LM) as lifeboat and Apollo 13 flight, and
applications of Apollo
systems analysis to social problems
13254, 13290,
13346
Transcript 21 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Also used for …Before This
Decade is Out
Von Braun, Wernher
Ray, Thomas 1970-08-27 Creation of NASA, transfer of Army Ballistic Missile
Agency (ABMA) to NASA,
Hugh Dryden’s role in NACA and NASA, NASA
organization
2630 Transcript 12 pgs
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Von Braun, Wernher
Ray, Thomas 1970-08-28 Program management, use of PERT and SARP charts,
Cape Canaveral launch
facilities, NASA cooperation with military for launches,
cooperation between NASA
centers, use of working groups
2631 Transcript 36 pgs
Von Braun,
Wernher
1971-11-17 Evolution of Saturn launch
vehicles, role of Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA), development of
lunar module (LM) and lunar rover, Soviet launch vehicles,
Apollo program management
2632 Transcript 41 pgs
Von Braun, Wernher
Ray, Thomas 1971-11-30 Development and design of Saturn launch vehicles,
project management
2633 Transcript 51 pgs
Wagner,
Robert
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-03-14 BELLCOMM opposition to
C’ mission (Apollo 8) 13290 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
(unpublished)
Wagner, Robert
Sherrod, Robert
1969-03-27 Gus Grissom comments on lack of experience by NASA
and contractor personnel
early in Apollo program
13290 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Wagner,
Robert
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-04-15 Liquid hydrogen, IBM 360
Model 75 computer, Manned Space Flight Awareness
program, single failure point
analysis as factors making Apollo successful
13290 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Wagner, Robert
Sherrod, Robert
1969-10-27 George Mueller 13290 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Wagner, Robert
Sherrod, Robert
1970-02-03 George Mueller 13290 Notes 1 pg Apollo History (unpublished)
Telephone interview
Walker,
Robert
Launius,
Roger
1999-11-01 Space commercialization 18928 Transcript 99 pgs Commercial
Space Policy of
the 1980s Oral History
Workshop
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Walsh, J. Paul Green, Constance
Lomask, Milton
1967-04-18 Participation on Vanguard launch vehicle and Viking
projects at NRL as a liaison
to Martin Company
2205 Notes 3 pgs Vanguard: A History
Ward, Sherrod, 1972-10-27 Apollo 15 crew stamp 13290 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
Douglas Robert controversy, publicity of (unpublished) previous questionable
dealings by astronauts
Ware, George H.
Fries, Sylvia 1986-11-13 Ware beginning at Langley Research Center (LaRC) as a
co-op student, building
model airplanes as a child, change in NASA co-op
programs over the decades,
difference between computer and hands-on modeling,
decision not to join the Space
Task Group (STG), decision to switch to space systems
division in 1970 to work on
Space Shuttle aerodynamics, current work on Space
Shuttle abort systems after
the Challenger (STS-51L) accident, Ware's view of
engineers who become
managers, changes in how LaRC managers are selected,
increase in bureaucratization
and safety-consciousness, loss of wind tunnel
capabilities at LaRC
3578 Transcript 22 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
Warren, James V.
Pitts, John 1979-06-20 Biomedical aspects of manned space program,
membership on NASA’s
Space Medicine Advisory Group and PSAC Biomedical
Sub Panel, physiology and
cardiology, international cooperation in biomedical
field
2515 Transcript 36 pgs The Human Factor
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Wasserburg, Gerald J.
Arnold, James Walker, Robert
Burke, James 1979-05-15 Manned vs. unmanned exploration of moon, science
in Apollo program, selection
of experiments for Apollo, quarantine and study of lunar
samples, findings from
samples, establishment of lunar sample curatorial
facility, cancellation of
Apollo 18-20 missions, future policy for space
exploration
2215 Transcript 46 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
Wasserburg,
Gerald J.
Tatarewicz,
Joseph
Allton, Judy 1993-01-22 Rationale behind the Lunar
Receiving Laboratory (LRL), roles of planetary protection
and geologists in designing
the LRL, Apollo 11 quarantine problems,
balancing quarantine
regulations and lunar geology requirements, place of
science in the Apollo lunar
program, changes to design
and management of LRL
after Apollo 11, Charles
Berry, Bob Gilruth, long term storage of lunar samples after
the end of Apollo program
19509 Transcript 97 pgs Astrogeology
History (unpublished)
Watson, Mason, John, 1972-11-17 Polaris missile 19414 Transcript 65 pgs In Clement
Clement H. Jr. Hayes Watson Navy folder
Wattendorf, Frank L.
Bonney, Walter
1973-06-26 Work at CalTech under Dr. Theodore von Karman,
Caltech cooperation with
NACA, tour of China, wind tunnel and aircraft research
during WWII, post war trip
to Germany as member of AGARD Scientific Advisory
Group, von Karman’s
relationships with Vannevar Bush and Hugh Dryden, von
Karman’s involvement with
aeronautical research after WWII, strengths of NACA,
2520 Transcript 69 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
reorganization of aeronautical
research after WWII
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Webb, Bailey Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-06-27 James Webb's parents,
Webb's attitude towards education, Webb's
personality
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, Fred, Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-06-28 Webb's early leadership skills and entrepreneurship, family
tradition of public service,
Webb's skills as manager and organizer
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, Fred, Lambright, W. 1990-06-29 Webb's pragmatism and 7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Jr. Henry integrity, organizational ability
Webb, H. Gorman
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-01-19 Webb family history, Webb working for R.G. Lassiter,
Webb becoming a US
Marines pilot during Great Depression, Webb's parents,
Webb's personality, Senator
Kerr introducing Webb to President Johnson, Webb's
involvement in boards after
leaving NASA
7106 Notes 12 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James
E.
Conniff,
James
1966-07-08 Philosophical implications of
spaceflight, impact of scientific and engineering
advances from space flight,
long lead time in spacecraft and launch vehicle
development, NASA's post-
Apollo planning, US's ability to beat the Soviet Union to
the first manned moon
landing, international cooperation with Soviet
space program, impact of
space program on economy, space program spinoffs,
NASA long term planning,
whether military had attempted to "take over"
space program, is space
program worth the cost with
20215 Transcript 39 pgs Transcript is
base for article "What
Are We
Really After In Space",
publication
status uncertain
so many problems on earth?,
value of space program, international cooperation
with western Europe on
future space projects, impact of space program on
universities, physical dangers
of space flight
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Webb, James
E.
Atkins,
Charles
Emme,
Eugene
1966-09-09 NASA and National
Academy of Sciences (NAS) Space Science Board (SSB)
3523 Transcript 23 pgs
Webb, James E.
Seamans, Robert C., Jr.
Cortright, Edgar
1967-02-08 Pre-Congressional hearing review of Mars Voyager
management
10981 Transcript 87 pgs
Webb, James
E.
Harvey Suojanen 1968-03-16 Development of research and
development policy and management of large
governmental and
institutional programs
3523
& 13269
Transcript 98 pgs
Webb, James E.
Sherrod, Robert
1968-08-02 Meeting with Senator Mondale in response to
Phillips Report, Eberhard
Rees assignment to North American Aviation (NAA),
NAA vs. Martin Marietta as
prime contractor for Apollo spacecraft
13290 Notes 7 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Webb, James
E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1968-11-15 James Webb’s resignation, Robert Seamans' resignation
13290 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Webb, James
E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-03-26 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire as a
failure of management, Webb's actions to correct
management failures that led
to fire, Joe Shea, George Mueller, Boeing TIE Apollo
integration contract, Webb
and the New York Times, decision to send Apollo 8 on
circumlunar flight
13135 Notes 8 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Webb, James E.
Baker, T. Harri
1969-04-29 First contact with Lyndon Johnson, White House
relations, President
Kennedy’s views on manned space flight, direction of
NASA manned space flight
programs
18990 Transcript 6 pgs Johnson Administration
Oral History
Project
Copyrighted by Johnson
Library
Webb, James
E.
Frederickson,
H. George
Anna, Henry
J.
1969-05-15 Project management
differences between
Huntsville and Houston and
HQ's role, competition to
strengthen centers, bureaucracy, focused vs
broad goals, appropriation of
funds, NASA reorganization
1961,
2043,
3523,
18723
Transcript 39 pgs Syracuse/NASA
Program Project
Manager
Research Group
Used for
"Inside
NASA"
Webb, James
E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-06-08 Responsibility of NASA
managers for Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire, Apollo 1 fire
investigation, George
Mueller, Robert Gilruth, Joe Shea, selection of Houston as
site for the Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC)
13290 Notes 5 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Webb, James E.
Sherrod, Robert
1969-06-19 Webb's movements the day of Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire,
consequences of the fire, why
NASA public affairs heavily criticized
13290 Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Webb, James
E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1969-09-17 Argument between Jerome
Wiesner and Webb over lunar orbit rendezvous
(LOR), opposition to Webb
from New York Times, Webb's retirement
13290 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
announcement
Webb, James Sherrod, 1970-04-30 Webb's opinion of recent 13269 Notes 1 pg Apollo History
E. Robert books and press mentions of (unpublished)
his NASA tenure
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Webb, James E.
Sherrod, Robert
1970-07-21 Webb's response to accusations of Apollo
spacecraft prime contract
being awarded to North American Aviation (NAA)
due to Webb's ties to Senator
Robert Kerr and NAA lobbying
13135 Notes 3 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Webb, James
E.
Sherrod,
Robert
1970-07-30 Politics behind Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC) site in Houston, aerospace
contractors lobbying
Senators, argument between Webb and Senator Mondale
over Phillips Report, Webb's
business interests in Oklahoma when he was
appointed NASA
Administrator, firing of Brainerd Holmes
13135 Notes 8 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
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Webb, James E.
Logsdon, John 1970-09-01 How research by the NACA "spun off" to industry and the
military, need for
understanding by policymakers and public of
how technology development
works, lack of Soviet progress in space after mid
1960s as a factor in lowering
support for Apollo and post-Apollo space programs,
Webb's refusal to back a
3523 &
19887
Transcript 33 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
manned Mars landing program arising from sense it
would not get concrete
support from President or Congress, problems of
establishing a post-Apollo
plan when high levels of technological uncertainties
existed, NASA engineers not
wanting to take political factors into consideration for
post-Apollo planning, placing
Homer Newell in charge of program and agency
planning, conflict for control of civilian space program
with Robert McNamara
Webb, James E.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-04-28 Independent estimates of run-out costs for going to the
moon, Phillips Report as “a set of notes”, 12/1966 North American Aviation (NAA)
contract, actions after the fire,
Robert Seamans, FY1968 budget, Robert McNamara,
trip to Alabama, relationship
between Headquarters and centers, Brainerd Holmes
3523, 13268,
13290
Transcript 48 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Webb, James
E.
Hall, Cargill 1972-10-26 Caltech-NASA relations and
Ranger history
3541 Transcript 24 pgs Lunar Impact Copyrighted
by JPL
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Webb, James Emme, Roland, Alex 1974-04-11 January - June 1961 at NASA 13495 Transcript 51 pgs Early NASA E. Eugene & History
13460 (unpublished)
Webb, James Torrey, Volta Rowsome, 1974-06-11 Apollo program 3523 Transcript 28 pgs Apollo E. Frank Expeditions to
the Moon
Webb, James
E.
Burke, James 1979-05-23 Apollo program 3523 Transcript 30 pgs Copyrighted
by BBC
Webb, James
E.
DeVorkin,
David
1983-07-22 Webb's experiences in the
Marines Corps and Marines
Reserves, President Truman's pragmatic approach to
administration, Webb's
efforts at Bureau of Budget (BoB) to prevent groups from
having power over the
president, acquaintance with Hugh Dryden and Robert
Seamans before NASA,
Webb selected as NASA
Administrator, NASA
management triumvirate of
Webb, Dryden, and Seamans; Sustaining Universities
Program (SUP), Webb's
changes in Apollo program management after the Apollo
1 (AS-204) fire, placing
General Sam Phillips in charge of Apollo
configuration management,
Homer Newell, George Mueller, NASA long-range
planning under Webb
7106 Notes 13 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James Lambright, W. 1984-07-18 James Webb and senior 7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
E. Henry Kennedy and Johnson administration officials
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Webb, James E.
DeVorkin, David
Tatarewicz, Joseph
1985-02-02 Webb's father, Webb's early lessons in administration,
joining the Marines Corps
Reserve in 1930 to fly, work as Secretary for Congressman
Pugh, Webb's role in
restarting contracts for private companies to carry
US airmail, Webb's work as
treasurer at Sperry in late 1930s, learning more about
administration at Sperry
7106 Notes 11 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James
E.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1985-03-08 James Webb's involvement in
selection of US Air Force song "The Wild Blue
Yonder"
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1985-04-12 Webb's view of his role at NASA as creating new
national capabilities not only
managing programs, reasons for lack of post-Apollo
planning under Webb
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James
E.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1988-12-09 Abe Silverstein and Centaur,
creating NASA future capabilities
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1989-09-28 Webb's integrity as NASA Administrator with
contractors and Congress,
Secretary of Defense James Forrestal
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James
E.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-03-26 James Webb at the Bureau of
the Budget (BoB)
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-04-13 James Webb becoming a US Marines pilot, Bureau of the
Budget (BoB)
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James
E.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-12-12 Source of Webb's interest in
management theory and practice, Webb's relationship
with Dean Acheson while at
State Department, Paul Nitze, Webb's account of his
resignation as NASA
Administrator
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
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Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-01-08 Gemini program and the Department of Defense
(DoD), Robert McNamara
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James
E.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-02-21 NASA organization,
scientists' support of Apollo, President Kennedy's offer of
space cooperation with the
Soviets in 1963, Webb's efforts to build support for
space program in Congress,
Webb's relationships with President Kennedy and
President Lyndon Johnson,
Webb's management philosophy
7106 Notes 11 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-03-26 "Unknown unknowns" in Apollo program, managing
information flow at NASA,
Hugh Dryden, Webb's management style, Jerome
Wiesner, influence of Webb's
family on Webb, Webb's habit of learning from
everyone he came across
7106 Notes 14 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James
E.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-05-10 NASA attitude toward risk
during Apollo program, importance of management
structure to completing
Apollo, managing independent and intelligent
people, importance of
confidence in NASA management capability
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-05-13 Truman administration budget process
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
Webb, James
E.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1991-06-25 Webb's tactics for handling
Congressional opposition to NASA programs, Senator
Clinton Anderson, Senator
Walter Mondale
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-07-09 President Johnson's opinion of James Webb
7106 Notes 1 pg Powering Apollo
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Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-08-20 Role of specialists and generalists in government
administration
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1991-12-02 Webb at Sperry, work on Smithsonian Board of
Regents after retirement from
NASA, efforts by Webb to ensure no news surprised the
President or Congress
7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1992-01-22 James Webb's views on role of the NASA Administrator
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1992-01-28 James Webb's goals as NASA Administrator
7106 Notes 2 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, James E.
Lambright, W. Henry
1992-01-30 Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire and North American Aviation
management problems,
NASA management changes made by Webb after the
Apollo 1 fire, Boeing-TIE
contract, Phillips Report,
Webb's relationship with the
media
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, Patsy Lambright, W. Henry
1990-08-02 James Webb's courtship of Patsy, family life while Webb
was at Sperry, Webb's
personality, Webb's resignation from NASA
7106 Notes 6 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, Patsy Lambright, W. Henry
1992-10-23 Letters Webb's wife received after his death: Lynda and
Lady Bird Johnson, David
Acheson, Hilliard Page, Raymond Kline, Michael
Collins, John R. Porter,
Burton Edelson
7106 Notes 4 pgs Powering Apollo
Webb, Sally Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-12-12 Webb's energy, Webb's
personality, Webb's ethics
7106 Notes 5 pgs Powering Apollo
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Weick, Fred E.
Keller, Michael
1967-10-02 Development of NACA cowling, Townsend ring,
nacelles using propeller
research tunnel, tricycle landing gear, high lift devices
and flaps, 20 foot wind
tunnel for research of speeds over 100 mph
2535 Transcript 25 pgs Kitty Hawk to Muroc
Weiler, Edward J.
Dick, Steven J.
2004-02-02 Columbia orbiter and Hubble Space Telescope (HST),
science community and HST
servicing, astronomers' attitudes towards servicing
risks versus human
spaceflight program attitudes, announcement of decision to
cancel fifth HST servicing
mission, Weiler's involvement with HST and
cancellation decision,
Weiler's view on Vision for Exploration (VSE)
19820 Transcript 21 pgs Hubble Servicing (unpublished)
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Weinberger, Caspar W.
Logsdon, John 1977-08-23 Weinberger's support of Shuttle despite opposition by
most of the Office of
2539, 7915,
19887
Transcript 20 pgs Space Shuttle Decision
Management and Budget (OMB), NASA coming in
with Space Shuttle request
under OMB target figure and OMB staff recommendation
for disapproval of Shuttle
anyway, OMB staff efforts to descope Shuttle to reduce
budget further, Don Rice,
Weinberger's reasons for supporting Shuttle program,
Fletcher seeking direct
approval of Shuttle from President Nixon essentially
symbolic, cancellation of
Supersonic Transport (SST), lack of support at
government agencies for
OMB decisions as a general rule
Weinberger, Launius, 1991-09-10 Space Shuttle decision from 2539 Notes 4 pgs Space Shuttle Caspar W. Roger Weinberger's perspective at Decision
Office of Management and
Budget (OMB)
Weiss,
Herbert G.
Butrica,
Andrew
1993-09-29 Ballistic missile defense
radar, designing Haystack Observatory, designing North
East Radio Observatory
Corporation (NEROC) radar and radio telescopes, aviation
radar, Green Bank
Observatory
18919 Transcript 47 pgs To See the
Unseen
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Welsh, Edward C.
Emme, Eugene
Sohier, Walter 1964-05-16 Transition from Eisenhower to Kennedy Administration,
appointment of committee to
study space policy, Welsh’s position on Senator Stuart
Symington’s staff and committee to study reorganization of defense
establishment, organization
of National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC) and
Vice President Johnson as
chair, Welsh as Executive Secretary and role of NASC,
relations with President
Kennedy and NASC to establish space policy, lunar
landing decision, getting
public support and beating Soviets in space race
2548 &
13276
Transcript 62 pgs Kennedy Administration
Oral History
Project
Copyrighted by John F.
Kennedy
Library
Welsh,
Edward C.
Logsdon, John 1967-08-14 First contact with President
Kennedy on space issue,
organization and activation of
National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC) in
1961 by Kennedy, early
funding of Apollo program, setting of space policy under
Kennedy, influence of Bay of
Pigs on space program and launch of Alan Shepard’s
Mercury MR-3 suborbital
flight, NASC meetings and attendees, lunar landing
decision and development of
large booster, USAF space program
2547 Transcript 27 pgs John F. Kennedy
and the Race to
the Moon
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Welsh, Edward C.
Emme, Eugene
Putnam, William
1969-02-20 Senator Stuart Symington hearings on air power,
relations between Symington
and Vice President Johnson, Navajo launch vehicle
project, organization and
creation of National Aeronautics and Space Act of
1958, distinction between
peaceful and military space policy for NASA,
reorganization of charter for
National Aeronautics and Space Council (NASC) to
include Vice President as
chair, Lyndon Johnson participation in drafting space
act, merging projects and
agencies into NASA, NASC functions and operations,
influence of Bay of Pigs on
first manned Mercury flight, factors leading to lunar
landing decision, effort to
identify any NASA and Department of Defense
(DoD) research duplication, policies on supersonic
transport (SST), Manned
Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), Saturn 1B and Titan 3 launch
vehicles, Apollo 1 (AS-204)
fire, Vice President Humphrey as chair of NASC,
political support for space
program
2548 Transcript 56 pgs
Welsh, Edward C.
Burke, James 1979-05-22 Decision to go to moon, influence of Bay of Pigs on
space program, science
policy in Apollo program, space race between US and
Soviet Union, public support
for Apollo
2549 Transcript 17 pgs Copyrighted by BBC
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#
Wertheim, Hunley, John 2002-04-02 Development of Polaris 18991 Transcript 15 pgs Launch Vehicle Rear Adm. ("Dill") missile, nuclear weapons, Technology
Robert launch vehicle design,
Trident missile
Wharton, Olive W.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-06-28 Webb's early interest in tinkering, earning money for
the family, Webb's
organizational abilities, Webb's sense of
responsibility
7106 Notes 9 pgs Powering Apollo
Whitcomb, Richard C.
Bonney, Walter
1973-03-27 Transonic wind tunnel and development of Area Rule,
wing and body shape effect
on shock wave, uncertainty of supersonic flight, Wally
Hayes’ theory, approaching Mach 1, 747’s not available for transonic flight,
development of transonic
wind tunnel, policies and
procedures for tests in 1943-
1951
2548, 2586,
19511
Transcript 12 pgs NACA History (unpublished)
Whitcomb, Richard C.
Anderson, John
1999-04-22 Swept wings, area rule, airplane design, wind tunnel
testing, F-100 century series
aircraft, Whitcomb's receipt of the Collier trophy, B-58,
supersonic aircraft, Boeing
747, supercritical wing, winglets, NACA/NASA
relations with industry
18992 Transcript 64 pgs AIAA 2003 video oral history
project
White, Maj. Sherrod, 1969-12-29 Delay in release of 13270 Notes 1 pg Apollo History Telephone
Gen. Edward Robert information to public about & (unpublished) interview Apollo 1 (AS-204) fire 13290
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White, Lt. Col. Stanley
C.
Merrifield, Robert
1965-08-20 Medicine and space biology vs. engineering, X-15
pressure suit and space diet
development, Project Mercury teamwork, North
American and General
Electric (GE) proposals to Langley Research Center
(LaRC), USAF end of space
involvement, White's assignment to NASA, test
pilot stress testing, 1958
Woods Hole scientific conference on man-in-space,
pilot control testing in
Mercury, communications in orbit, lack of DoD bias
against NASA in biology,
Man in Space Soonest (MISS), pulse rate in pilots
2592 Notes 12 pgs This New Ocean
White, Lt.
Col. Stanley
C.
Pitts, John 1979-06-21 Move of Space Task Group
(STG) to Houston, astronaut
training and biomedical tests,
NASA/ DoD life support system cooperation,
spacecraft environment
control, diet, psychology, and recovery operations, USAF
School of Aviation Medicine
biomedical experiments with animals on sounding rockets,
preventative medicine for
astronauts, Skylab biomedical experiments,
comparison of NASA culture
during Mercury and Skylab programs
2592 Transcript 47 pgs The Human
Factor
2 copies of
transcript in
file, 1 edited
and 1 unedited.
Interview not
used in The Human Factor
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Wiesner, Jerome C.
Skolnikoff, Eugene
1967-08-08 Space and space policy under President Eisenhower,
utilization of President's
Scientific Advisory Committee (PSAC) and
science advisors, PSAC
relations with federal agencies, handling of Robert
Oppenheimer by Kennedy
Administration, science and disarmament policy under
President Kennedy and role
of PSAC in White House policy making, advisor to
Kennedy campaign, US-
Soviet negotiations for test ban and arms control, Project
Westford (“Needles”) and environmental concerns of orbiting belt of copper
needles to reflect radio
waves, role of scientists in international cooperation and
foreign policy, foreign aid
sent and model devised to aid agricultural problems in
Pakistan, reform of education system in US, role of
scientists in policy making
2604 Transcript 48 pgs
Wiesner, Jerome C.
Neff, Donald 1969-02-12 Early stages on space policy and debate of manned vs.
unmanned space exploration,
large launch vehicle study group (Golovin Committee),
search by President Kennedy
for replacement of manned lunar landing as national
priority, debate between
President's Scientific Advisory Council (PSAC)
and NASA on earth orbit
rendezvous (EOR) vs. lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR)
2605 &
13211
Transcript 5 pgs Copyrighted by Time, Inc.
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Wiesner, Jerome C.
Emme, Eugene
Roland, Alex 1974-07-24 Positions in White House during Eisenhower and
Kennedy administrations,
work on von Neumann Committee, support for von
Braun team, ABMA, 1st
manned space flight; ICBM program, reaction to Sputnik,
TCP, activities and policies
of President's Scientific Advisory Council (PSAC)
2605 &
13460
Transcript 26 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
Wiesner,
Jerome C.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-11-15 Wiesner's first contacts with
Webb, Wiesner recommending Webb for
NASA Administrator,
Wiesner's recollection of fight between him and Webb
over lunar orbit rendezvous
(LOR) during trip to Marshall Space Flight Center
(MSFC), President Kennedy's
level of support for Apollo program, nuclear rocket
engine program, Webb's
personality
7106 Notes 8 pgs Powering Apollo
Williams, Henry L.
McMahon, A. Michal
1985-09-23 Williams' decision to become an engineering manager
rather than an engineer, work
at Convair on B-36 and nuclear aircraft, hiring at
Marshall Space Flight Center
(MSFC) in reliability and quality assurance of rocket
engines, managing reliability
program from Saturn S-IB at Michoud Assembly Facility
(MAF), advantage of
reliability engineering instead of specialization, decision to
transfer to Johnson Space
Center (JSC) reliability engineering after Apollo 1
(AS-204) fire, Space Station
Freedom design process as of 1985, engineering
3577 Transcript 27 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
management at MAF versus
JSC, how NASA has aged
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Williams,
John J.
Grimwood,
James
Ertel, Ivan 1967-05-24 Assistant manager for
Gemini Program at Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC),
Mercury and Gemini
spacecraft development
2617 Transcript 24 pgs On the Shoulders
of Titans
Williams,
Walter C.
Emme,
Eugene
Rothrock,
Addison
1964-03-25 Meetings with President
Kennedy at White House,
NASA centers, and Rice
University; decision for LOR mission mode for Apollo
Lunar landing, 1961 Wiesner
report on Mercury Project, meetings with PSAC sub-
panel on decision to proceed
with manned space flight, experiences of X-15 pilots
nearing space, differences in
attitudes toward space program between JFK and
Eisenhower Administrations,
decision to go to the moon,
Mercury MA-6 orbital flight
by John Glenn, debate to add
additional Mercury flight, safety considerations for test
pilots and astronauts, press
coverage during Mercury flights, cancellation of X-20
Dyna-Soar program, outlook
on NASA/USAF cooperation for Gemini program
2620
&
13273
Transcript 27 pgs Kennedy
Administration
Oral History
Project
Copyrighted
by John F.
Kennedy
Library
Williams, Walter C.
Merrifield, Robert
1967-12-13 Organization and operation of Space Task Group (STG),
NASA/ DoD relations,
relocation of STG from
Langley to Manned
Spacecraft Center (MSC),
cooperation with ABMA, engineers working on
Redstone launch vehicle,
operation of tracking stations, personalities involved in
2618 Transcript 16 pgs MSC History (unpublished)
Mercury and Gemini
programs
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Williams,
Walter C.
Sherrod,
Robert
1968-06-29 Williams' career, relationship
between Brainerd Holmes and James Webb,
personalities of Mercury
astronauts, Lyndon Johnson anecdotes
13273
& 13290
Notes 3 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Williams, Walter C.
Sherrod, Robert
1971-02-10 Alan Shepard, attempt to get additional Mercury flight
(MA-10), selection of North
American Aviation (NAA) for design of Apollo
spacecraft, difference in
emergency procedures and hatch between Mercury and
Apollo (before Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire)
2618, 13273,
13290
Notes 4 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Williamson,
David, Jr.
Sherrod,
Robert
1972-04-10 Relationship between James
Webb and Robert Seamans,
loss of Hugh Dryden,
Williamson's opinion of
Webb, relationship between Brainerd Holmes and Webb,
firing Joe Shea, Williamson's
opinion of Apollo project, Webb’s resignation
13269,
13275,
13290
Notes 7 pgs Apollo History
(unpublished)
Williamson, David, Jr.
Lambright, W. Henry
1990-07-17 Webb's political abilities, Webb's managerial skills as
NASA Administrator, Webb
as personnel manager, Webb's relationship with
astronauts, Webb's
resignation as NASA
Administrator, Senator
Walter Mondale and the
Phillips Report, Williamson's assessment of Webb as
NASA Administrator
7106 Notes 11 pgs Powering Apollo
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Wiseman, Jennifer
Dick, Steven J.
2004-01-29 Wiseman's role as Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
program scientist, long term
future of HST prior to cancellation of fifth servicing
mission, NASA
Administrator Sean O'Keefe's announcement of fifth
servicing mission
cancellation, astronomy community reaction to
cancellation
19820 Transcript 25 pgs Hubble Servicing (unpublished)
Withers, Col. Link, Mae M. 1952-03-28 background of fight for 1322 Notes 10 pgs
Hayden W. separate USAF Medical Service
Wunderman, Zibit, 1996-04-22 Her life with Dr. Frank 1419 Transcript 12 pgs Liljan Benjamin Malina in 1930s and 40s &
19402
Wyatt,
DeMarquis D.
Logsdon, John 1970-07-23 Post-Apollo planning, Apollo
Applications Program (AAP), development of a long range
plan, Space Task Group
(STG) organization and responsibilities, planning
policy of NASA
administrators James Webb and Thomas O. Paine, Space
Shuttle and space station
decisions, manned Mars exploration, NASA-
Congressional relations
2839 Transcript 52 pgs Space Shuttle
Decision
Wyatt, DeMarquis D.
Emme, Eugene
Sloop, John 1973-06-21 NACA aeronautical research during WWII, development
and research in supersonic
wind tunnels, aerodynamics and propulsion research,
NACA space activities,
organization of NASA, addition of Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) to NASA,
Source Selection Board for Project Mercury,
establishment of Goddard
Space Flight Center (GSFC) for Space Task Group (STG)
2840, 13460,
13498
Transcript 121 pgs Early NASA History
(unpublished)
and appointment of a
director, relationship between field centers and HQ, early
long range planning, cost
estimates and overruns in Gemini and Apollo
programs, Abe Silverstein
and James Webb’s management philosophies,
management of Mercury,
Gemini, and Apollo programs
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Yardley, John Bergen, 1998-01-29 Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, 2907 Transcript 31 pgs JSC Oral History
F. Summer and Shuttle development Project Chick programs
Yarymovych, Michael
Benson, Charles
1976-02-02 Early NASA space station planning, NASA Manned
Orbiting Research
Laboratory (MORL) and USAF Manned Orbiting
Laboratory (MOL), Apollo
Applications Program (AAP), all-up
Living and Working in
Space
YF-12 Jackson, 1972-00-00 Origins of NASA 11700 Transcript 40 pgs
Program Ralph participation in the YF-12 Managers program
Yohner, Peggy L.
Dawson, Virginia P.
1985-03-21 Yohner's hiring at NACA Lewis Research Center
(LeRC) to set up programs
for human "computers", switch to electronic
3578 Transcript 16 pgs NASA Engineers in the Age of
Apollo
computers and early
computer programming at LeRC, LeRC computing
innovations, development of
centralized computing and computer networks at LeRC,
computer programming in the
1960s and 1970s as relatively open career field for women,
major areas of research
Yohner supported during her career, LeRC role in Space
Station Freedom (SSF)
ground support computing
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Yohner,
Peggy L.
McMahon, A.
Michal
1986-05-13 Yohner's education as a
teacher, hiring at NACA Lewis Research Center
(LeRC), influence of parents
on career, working as a supervisor for human
"computers, transition to
electronic computers at LeRC, decision to resign to
raise children, return to
LeRC, upgrading wind tunnel computer capabilities, then
current LeRC computing
capabilities, Yohner's move into management,
organization of computer
services at LeRC, computing as a gender equal field,
Yohner's experience as a
manager, impact of Challenger (STS-51L)
accident at LeRC, scientists
versus engineers, Equal Employment Opportunity
(EEO) at LeRC
3578 Transcript 25 pgs NASA Engineers
in the Age of Apollo
York, Herbert Rivkin, Steve 1964-06-16 Transition from Eisenhower
to Kennedy administration in the Department of Defense
(DoD), aircraft nuclear
propulsion program turned into Systems for Nuclear
Auxiliary Power (SNAP),
DoD FY1961 budget for ballistic missile research
programs, balancing number
of Titan and Minuteman missiles, B-70 bomber,
Polaris missile program,
Skybolt missile program, York's relationship with
President Kennedy, nuclear
testing policy in the Eisenhower administration,
13279 Transcript 28 pgs Kennedy
Administration Oral History
Project
Copyrighted
by John F. Kennedy
Library
possibility of Soviet cheating
on nuclear test moratorium, intelligence data and the
"missile gap", Robert
McNamara, anti-ballistic missile (ABM) program
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York, Herbert Emme,
Eugene
Ray, Thomas 1973-06-12 US-USSR missile gap,
satellite reconnaissance, ICBM, Vanguard project,
role of President's Scientific
Advisory Committee (PSAC), Saturn, Juno, Nova,
and Centaur launch vehicles;
transfer of ABMA to NASA and role of Generals Medaris
and Brucker, Project Horizon
lunar bases, Apollo program, President Eisenhower’s role in space program, Jerome
Wiesner’s role in PSAC, Army and Navy launch
vehicle programs
2918 Transcript 116 pgs Early NASA
History (unpublished)
Yost, Michael Brooks,
Courtney
1970-07-17 Apollo lunar module (LM)
design, contract award, and management; development of
SWIP engine, engine testing,
difference between Gemini spacecraft and Apollo
Command and Service
Module (CSM)
2919 Transcript 43 pgs Chariots for
Apollo
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Young, John W.
Furlong, William
Changes to Apollo spacecraft as a result of Gemini
experience, differences
between Gemini spacecraft and Apollo spacecraft, why
Mercury spacecraft had
individually tailored couches, Apollo space suit, Young's
decision to become a pilot
after graduating with a degree in aeronautical
engineering, being a fire
control officer on a destroyer during the Korean War,
Apollo systems training,
difference between extravehicular activity (EVA)
in zero gravity and lunar
gravity, Young's leisure activities and exercise,
importance of ground testing,
Young's decision to apply for 1962 astronaut selection, why
astronauts are chosen from
test pilots, solving problems under stress as a test pilot and
as a Gemini astronaut, Gemini 10 rendezvous and
docking operations, Young's
dislike of astronaut PR duties, Young's daily routine,
attitude in approaching
engineering decisions, Mike Collins navigation
experiments on Gemini 10
flight, whether Young wants to be on first Apollo lunar
landing crew, likely gains
from lunar flights, speed of technological progression in
aeronautics, Young achieving
a world record for aircraft time to climb, differences and
similarities between Young
and his children
13280 Transcript 35 pgs
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Young, John W.
Sherrod, Robert
1974-06-28 Current astronaut assignments, Young's
education, Young's selection
as part of second class of astronauts, Gus Grissom,
training for Gemini 3 flight,
Gemini 3 flight, Gemini 10 flight, how Young became
command module (CM) pilot
on Apollo 10 flight, Young's involvement with Apollo 13
flight, steering an Apollo CM
through reentry, difference between space photography
and the human eye, Apollo
16 astronaut training, Apollo 16 flight, what Young did in
space between Apollo 1 (AS-
204) fire and Apollo 7 flight, when NASA would select
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Transcript 37 pgs Apollo History (unpublished)
Space Shuttle astronauts
Young, John W.
Rodriguez, Ivelisse
Rosenbaum, Stewart
1983-03-17 Gemini 3 flight, Gemini 10 flight, Apollo 10 flight,
Apollo 16 flight, STS-1
mission, STS-9 mission Gemini contributions to
Apollo program; Agena
target; “whifferdill”; Apollo 10 lunar orbit rendezvous
(LOR) and MASCONS,
lunar rover, launch vehicles for Gemini, Apollo, and
Shuttle; Apollo historic
contributions to space program, Shuttle as damage-
resistant, despite early
problems with missing tiles;
importance of STS missions,
SpaceLab significance and
plans, 25th anniversary of NASA: past and future;
eventuality of space
colonization
9721 Transcript 29 pgs
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Young, Pearl I.
Keller, Michael
1966-01-10 Research at Langley Memorial Aeronautical
Laboratory (LMAL), NACA
relations with Congress and industry, relations between
Langley employees and local
town of Hampton, impact of Great Depression on NACA,
research by NACA for Army
and Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
2900 Transcript 31 pgs Kitty Hawk to Muroc
Young, Sherrod, 1972-01-12 Young hired at Marshall 13281 Notes 2 pgs Apollo History Telephone
Robert B. Robert Space Flight Center (MSFC) & (unpublished) interview as director of industrial 13290
operations
Young, Robert B.
Sloop, John 1974-05-23 Propulsion experiments in 1945-1960, hydrogen/
oxygen/gasoline,
airturborocket, NERVA, nuclear development in early
1950s, career with Aerojet,
since 1943; organization of Aerojet, some experiments
run there; acid- gasoline and
coolants, acid-JPX with 70-30, contract backing up
Rocketdyne’s Atlas
propulsion auxiliary power
2871 Transcript 26 pgs Liquid Hydrogen as a Propulsion
Fuel, 1945-1959
Young, Maj.
Gen. R.P.
Lambright, W.
Henry
1990-08-01 Webb's formation of the
NASA Administrator's executive secretariat, Webb's
management style, Webb and
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Webb's
organizational abilities,
selection of North American Aviation as Apollo spacecraft
prime contractor, NASA
management triad of Webb, Hugh Dryden, and Robert
Seamans; friction between
Webb and Office of Manned Space Flight (OMSF)
7106 Notes 8 pgs Powering Apollo
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Zeman, John R.
Green, Constance
Lomask, Milton
1967-03-22 Prelaunch checkout of Vanguard launch vehicle,
Vanguard launch facilities,
Kennedy Space Center (KSC) during Vanguard
2326 Notes 5 pgs Vanguard: A History
Zimmerman,
Charles
Bonney,
Walter
1970-03-30 Career with NACA at
LMAL, development of free flight and spin wind tunnels
and vertical thrust vector,
development of private aircraft by Fred Weick,
benefits of NACA
conferences and inspections, employment with Chance
Vought to develop a flying
wing with vertical and horizontal flight capabilities,
stability problems with
submarines, VSTOL aircraft
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Transcript 25 pgs NACA History
(unpublished)
Zoernid, Lambright, W. 1990-07-03 Webb's organizational skills, 7106 Notes 3 pgs Powering Apollo Elizabeth Henry Webb needing a "bigger
stage" than Republic Supply
Company
Zwicky, Fritz Hall, R.
Cargill
1971-05-17 Zwicky's career at CalTech,
appointment as Chief of Research Dept for Aerojet,
jet propulsion and solid
propellants, launch of artificial meteors, support for
space exploration from
scientific community, discovery of supernovas,
Theodore von Karman, Hsue-
Shen Tsien, leadership of CalTech under Robert
Millikan and Lee DuBridge
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Transcript 19 pgs Zwicky, Fritz