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Exploring the Unknown
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Apollo 204 Review Board, 422–23, 651–61
Apollo Achievement Awards, 733
Apollo Applications Program, 376, 422, 639–46, 688
Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), 722–25
Apollo Telescope Mount, 643, 752
Arabian, Donald D., 377–84, 699
Aristarchus, 408n26
Armstrong, Neil A.
Apollo 8, 696
Apollo 11: assignment to, 432; declaration for agriculture and customs, 736–
37; lunar surface activities, 434, 775–79; mission report, 765–84; words said
on lunar surface, 433, 434, 728, 729
biographical information, 785
Gemini VIII (GT-8), 47, 345, 357–62
test pilot experience of, 14n47
Army, U.S.
Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC), 117–20
astronaut selection from, 135–36
Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), 28–29, 117–20
Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC), 117–20
Arnold, Earl H., 742
Atlantic Missile Range, 142, 144, 164, 397
Atlas rockets
abort sensing and implementation system (ASIS), 182
Atlas-Agena vehicles. See Agena rockets
Atlas-Centaur vehicles, 40, 274, 461, 483
Gemini program use of, 256
Mercury program use of, 12, 33, 126, 210
Mercury-Atlas missions, 241; failure of, 241; MA-1, 179; MA-2, 179, 180, 182;
MA-3, 180, 190, 241; MA-4, 248; MA-5, 140, 142, 248; MA-6, 33–34, 214–28,
249; MA-7, 34, 230–36, 248; MA-8, 41, 279; MA-9, 41, 279; television system
for, 211–12
MIS program, 76–77
priority status of program, 563
reliability analysis of missions, 186
reliability of, 29–30, 183, 184
rocket recovery system, 442
weight-carrying capacity of, 25, 27
WS-117L program, 83–84
Atomic Energy Commission, 376
Atwood, Leland, 423, 629, 630, 708
Augerson, William S., 127, 133–35, 136, 153, 785
Autoneutronics, 55–58
Auxiliary Flight Research Station (AFRS), 4, 49. See also Pilotless Aircraft
Research Division (PARD)
AVCO, 60–62, 551
Aviation Medical Acceleration Laboratory, 168