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

820 Index
General Dynamics-Astronautics
Apollo spacecraft proposal, 506, 550, 551, 553–55, 557–58
Gemini launch vehicle procurement, 256
launch vehicle development, 243
General Electric Corporation
Apollo 8, 708, 709
Apollo spacecraft proposal, 506, 550, 551, 553–55, 557, 558
automated checkout equipment production, 663
Mark 2 reentry vehicle, 5–6
Paine as executive at, 428
Radio-inertial Guidance System, 76
Gibbons, John H., 789
Gilruth, Robert R.
accidents, contingency plans for, 367
Apollo program: Apollo 8, 427, 691, 692, 693–94, 696, 698, 699, 701–2, 710,
717; Apollo 11, 729; cancellation of missions, 434; Command Module
design, 540; LOR concept, 402, 587; procurement plan, 501–12; risks and
failure concerns of Mueller, 429, 702–6; scientific activities on lunar surface,
616–18; scientific value of, 438, 739–40; spacecraft design, 540
biographical information, 789
Flight Readiness Board, 174
Gemini program, 275, 292, 293–96
Joint Manned Satellite Panel, 12, 86
Manned Spacecraft Center director, 522
Mercury program: animal payloads, 138–39; astronaut activities guidelines,
228–30; astronaut integration with capsule, 26; astronauts, public image
of, 20–21; astronauts, selection of, 136; Atlas reliability, 29; circumlunar
mission proposal, 204; contributions of, 122; launch vehicle research,
5, 7–8; MA-6 postlaunch telegram, 214–28; management of, 120, 243;
management success of, 122; Manned Spacecraft Center expansion and
success, 35; naming of, 124–25; oversight of building spacecraft, 27, 147–48
Mercury-Redstone program termination, 209–10
MIS program, 120, 121
PARD leadership of, 4
Redstone ballistic missile procurement, 117–20
Source Evaluation Board, 549
Source Selection Board, 126
Space Task Group, 12, 121–23, 179, 399
Glenn, John H., Jr.
biographical information, 790
circumlunar mission proposal, 204
Friendship 7 flight, 33–34, 241; debriefing following, 223–28; equipment
failure, 248; landing bag problem during, 34, 216, 220; pilot role of, 33–34,
247–48; postlaunch telegram, 214–23; scientific observations, 251–52
popularity of, 34
press conference to introduce astronauts, 18, 19
public image of, 34
specialty area assignment, 25–26, 160, 166
training of astronauts, 22, 158–61
visits with Russian cosmonauts, 149–51