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

832 Index
Merritt Island Launch Area, 397
Meyer, Andre J., 511
Michoud, Antoine, 397
Miller, George, 438, 513, 654, 655, 760–64
Miller, N. Philip, 514
Minuteman ICBM program, 137, 412, 563
Mission Analysts Division, 288
Mission Control Center-Houston, 297–98, 364
Mississippi Test Facility, 397, 542
Mitchell, Edgar, 435
Mitchell, Willis B., 377–84
Mondale, Walter, 423
Moon exploration. See also Apollo, Project
Frau Mauro, 435
Gemini program proposal, 40, 272–73, 274
life on the Moon, 408, 408n26
lunar landing mission: cost of, 394, 478, 481, 486; fuel for, 483, 487–88; goal
of, 388–90, 440–48; Manned Lunar Working Group Task Force, 389, 392,
457–71; work schedule for, 482–83, 486
lunar orbit simulation, 280
Mercury program proposal, 203–5
NASA’s long-range plans and, 4, 388–90
public opinion about, 1
Sea of Tranquility, 432, 560, 561
Soviet program for, 425–26, 430, 685–87, 692
support for, 1–2, 388–90, 440–48
U.S.-Soviet cooperation, 416–19, 417n46, 612–16
U.S.-Soviet rivalry, 277–78, 650
Von Braun’s plan for, 3
Moore, Forrest, 20
Moore, Patrick, 408n26
Morehead Planetarium, 168
Morrow, Tom, 708
Moyers, Bill, 42, 283, 285–87, 347
Mrazek, William A., 117, 511
MRS-V Committee (ARPA), 441
Muehlberger, William R., 762
Mueller, George E., 796
Apollo program: all-up testing, 413–14, 608–9, 610–12; Apollo 1 (204) fire,
422; Apollo 7, 706; Apollo 8, 427, 428, 430, 691, 692, 695, 697, 699, 709–16;
Apollo 10, 431; Apollo 11, 721–26, 730–35; Lunar Module rendezvous
radar, 426, 689; management of, 412–14, 423, 608–12; Phillips report on
North American Aviation, 423, 629; risks and failure concerns, 429, 702–6;
schedule for, 650; scientific value of, 438, 739–40
Gemini program: circumlunar mission proposal, 273, 274; EVA on GT-4,
293–96; GT-6 and GT-7, rendezvous between, 346–47; summary conference,
374–77
Saturn V production termination, 687–88
United Nations conference, 427–28, 692
Muhly, William C., 123