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

Exploring the Unknown
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House of Representatives, U.S.
Apollo 1 (204) fire review, 654, 655
Science and Astronautics, Committee on, 277, 438, 513, 655, 662
Houston, Vincent, 717
Hughes Aircraft Company, 551
Human spaceflight
catching-up efforts, Soviet achievements and, 51–52
military support functions of, 2
MISS program, 9–10, 9n25, 9n29
NACA’s research and plans, 5–8, 49
perceptions about, 1, 6, 51
schedule proposals, 57–58
scientific value of, 392, 415, 471–74
studies of at Langley, 49, 71–72
support for, public relations campaign for, 1–2
U.S.-Soviet cooperation, 391, 416–19, 753
U.S.-Soviet rivalry, 36, 82, 83, 145–47, 204, 212, 390, 392–93, 410–11, 416, 598
Von Braun’s plan for, 3–4
Humphrey, Hubert H., 149, 429
Humphreys, James W., Jr., 742
Hyland, Lawrence A., 177–92
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Interagency Committee on Back Contamination, 408, 435, 665, 666–76, 679–81,
683–84, 744
Interior, U.S. Department of, 673, 680–81, 683
International Business Machines, 663, 708
International Space Station, 4
Intrepid, U.S.S., 231
Irvine, Jack, 75
Irwin, James, 21n70, 439
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J-2 engines
alternatives to, 528
Apollo program launch vehicles, 399, 496, 542, 570
building of, 522
development of, 461, 464
payload capabilities, 464
James, Lee, 694, 696, 698, 707, 717
James, Lieutenant Colonel, 117
Jeffs, George, 652–53
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
landing site selection, 561, 564–66
mission objectives of, 559
rendezvous approaches study, 401, 495
Research Steering Committee on Manned Space Flight, 440
robotic missions supervised by, 407, 559–62
spaceflight research at, 446–47