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

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Management and Budget, Office of, 437, 750, 751
Management Council, 608, 610
Mandel, Adrian, 673, 743
Man-in-Space Soonest (MISS) program, 9–10, 9n25, 9n29
Manned Lunar Working Group Task Force, 389, 392, 457–71
Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), 41, 286–87, 376
Manned Satellite Project
development of, 9, 9n25
experiments, aeromedical, 87
funding for, 9, 9n29, 11, 76, 83, 121
Joint Manned Satellite Panel: establishment of, 12; minutes of meeting, 86–
89; preliminary specifications for satellite capsule, 12, 89–116
personnel for, 76
priority of, 11, 81–84
public relations issues, 121
renaming of, 123–25
responsibility for, 9–10, 72–80
spacecraft: booster design, 84; design of, 7–8, 50–51, 52–71, 80–81; reusable,
3, 4, 80
status report, 125–27
Manned Space Flight and Public Affairs, Office of, 371
Manned Space Flight Network, 380
Manned Space Flight, Office of (OMSF), 402, 406, 535, 539, 544, 559, 617, 674,
725, 742
Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC)
accidents, contingency plans for, 367, 369–70
Apollo program: all-up testing, 609; Apollo 11, 724; direct ascent mode,
540; EOR concept, 539; landing site selection, 561; LOR concept, 403, 521,
538–39, 585, 587; lunar surface information, robotic missions for, 560;
mission control center for, 397, 566–68; mission schedule, 611; reentry
vehicle design, 538; rendezvous approaches study, 402–3; scientific activities
on lunar surface, 617
Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, 382–83, 413, 424
creation of, 229, 396
expansion of, 35
Gemini program, 274, 275
Interagency Committee on Back Contamination membership, 673–74, 742–
43
landing site selection, 564
Lunar Exploration Office, 738
Lunar Receiving Laboratory, 408, 666, 668, 679–81, 743, 747, 767
purpose of, 380
Space Task Group relocation to, 35, 229
spacesuit support facilities, 381
success of, 35
Trajectory Analysis, 564
Mark 2 reentry vehicle, 5–6
Mars exploration, 3, 4, 436
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
Apollo program: all-up testing, 414, 609; Apollo 11, 724; EOR concept, 403,