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

Exploring the Unknown
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521, 539–40; launch vehicle development, 399; LOR concept, 403, 535–44,
585, 587; LOR concept, dispute over, 404–5, 569; mission schedule, 611;
rendezvous approaches study, 401, 402–3, 495
Gemini program, 274
Kuettner’s role at, 203
launch operations management, 397
reliability analysis, 187
research at, 461
Saturn schedule, acceleration of, 603
S-IC booster test stand, 542
training at, 165
work schedule at, 483, 486
Martin Company
Apollo spacecraft proposal, 507, 547, 550, 551, 553–56
Gemini program, 275, 276
launch vehicle development, 256
launch vehicle procurement, 256
space rescue plans, 284, 288
spacecraft design proposal, 58–59
Titan III program, 555
Martin Marietta, 708
Martin-Bell, 443
Mason, Brian H., 762
Mason, John A., 743
Massachusetts, 396, 512, 519–20
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 604, 708
Masursky, Harold, 764
Mathews, Charles W., 511, 549, 795
Matthews, Charles F., 123, 268–72, 275, 522, 540
Mattingly, T. K. “Ted,” 435, 439
May, Ralph W., Jr., 441, 494–501
Mayall, N. U., 764
Mayer, John P., 123
Maynard, Owen E., 377–84, 559–62, 564, 795–96
McAdam, Robert, 153
McCord, Thomas B., 764
McDivitt, James A., 796
Apollo 9, 431
Gemini IV (GT-4): altitude chamber testing approval, 292; celebration
following mission, 43; debriefing following, 298–344; EVA during, 39, 44,
268, 299–344
visits with Russian cosmonauts, 43, 149
McDonald, Gordon, 709
McDonnell Aircraft Company (MAC)
Apollo 8, 708
Apollo spacecraft, 507, 550, 551, 553–55, 557, 558, 576
couch molding by, 164
Gemini program: circumlunar mission studies, 274, 275, 276; development
plan for, 38, 253–64; Gemini Familiarization Package, 266–68; spacecraft
development, 204, 256; spacecraft procurement contract, 256