Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in ... - The Black Vault

Exploring the Unknown
815
Launch Operations Center head, 397
LOR concept, 587
Defense, U.S. Department of (DOD). See also Advanced Research Projects
Agency (ARPA)
accidents, contingency plans for, 363–67, 369
Apollo 8, 709, 710
Apollo program review, 416
astronaut activities guidelines, 238
contract monitoring, 662
DX priority status, 137, 563
Large Launch Vehicle Planning Group, NASA-DOD, 398, 399, 521, 523
LOR concept, 587
Manned Orbiting Laboratory, 286–87, 376
Manned Space Flight Experiments Board, 642
Master Urgency List, 137
medical aspects of spaceflight, 187, 188
Mercury program responsibilities of, 179, 242–43, 244
MISS program, 10
National Space Plan recommendations, 479
robotic missions of, 388
space race with Soviets review, 393, 478
support from, importance of, 376
workforce, 376
Discoverer project, 165, 189, 563
Disher, John, 413, 441, 457, 608, 609–10
Doe, Bruce, 763
Donlan, Charles J.
biographical information, 787–88
Mercury program astronaut selection, 15, 16, 127, 136
Space Task Group membership, 122, 179
Dornbach, John E., 564
Douglas, W. K., 168
Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.
Apollo spacecraft proposal, 506, 550, 551
booster decisions and, 543
Saturn V production, 663
work schedule at, 591
Downhower, Walter J., 494–501
Draper, Stark, 708
Drew, Russ, 750, 751
Drewry, Colonel, 117
Dryden, Hugh L.
Apollo program: management of, 400; schedule for, acceleration of, 593–95,
601; spacecraft contract, 547
biographical information, 788
EVA on GT-4, 44, 292, 293–96
illness and death of, 44, 420
manned satellite program, 86
Mercury program: animal payloads, 141; astronaut activities guidelines, 229;
DX priority status for, 137; funding for, 146