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

Exploring the Unknown 825
astronaut selection, 175–77
Bay of Pigs incident, 393
biographical information, 792
Cape Canaveral visit, 419
human spaceflight views of, 390–91
Inaugural Address, 391
lunar landing commitment, 400, 401, 458
lunar landing promise of, 35, 203–4, 390n4, 395, 414, 547
NASA budget approval, 392
National Space Plan approval, 395
space preeminence goal, 411, 412, 598–600
space race with Soviets, 392–95, 474–93
United Nations speech, 417–18, 612, 613
U.S.-Soviet cooperation, 391, 416–19, 612–16, 627
U.S.-Soviet rivalry, 390, 392–93, 410–11, 416, 598
visits with Russian cosmonauts, 149
Kennedy Space Center, 381, 724
Kerr, Robert, 391, 414
Khrushchev, Nikita, 392, 417, 418, 419, 612, 613, 615–16, 793–94
Killian, James R., 10, 72, 79–80, 793
Kistiakowsky, George, 145–47, 389, 792–93
Klein, Harold P., 673
Kleinknecht, Kenneth
Apollo 8, 695, 699
biographical information, 793
circumlunar mission proposal, 275
EVA attempts, 39, 268
Source Evaluation Board membership, 549
Kolenkiewicz, Ronald, 123
Komarov, Vladimir, 430, 686
Koppenhaver, James T., 502, 511, 549
Kraft, Christopher C., Jr.
Apollo 8, 427, 694, 695, 696, 698, 699, 707, 717
biographical information, 245, 793
Carpenter, attitude toward, 231
Gemini program: GT-4 role of, 298; GT-6 and GT-7, rendezvous between,
346
Manned Spacecraft Center director, 231
Mercury program: astronaut integration with capsule, 24; program review,
36–37, 245–52
Senior Flight Director role, 245
Space Task Group membership, 123, 245
Kranz, Gene, 298
Kuettner, Joachin P., 147–48, 203–5, 794
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L-115 engines, 528
Laika, 6
Laitin, Joseph, 346–47