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Exploring the Unknown
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Multi-Axis Spin Test Inertia Facility (MASTIF) device, 167, 169
Murrow, Edward R., 211
Myers, Dale, 695, 749, 750
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Nagy, Alex P., 38, 264–65
NASA-Industry Apollo Executives Group, 412
NASA-Industry Program Plans Conference, 388–89, 449–57
National Academy of Sciences
astronaut selection, 406–7
Interagency Committee on Back Contamination, 435, 673, 683
quarantine procedures and back contamination, 408, 665, 678–81
Space Science Board, 388, 392, 408, 471–74, 616, 617, 740–49, 750
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
Flight Research Center, 14n47
human spaceflight research and plans, 5–8, 49, 79
MIS program, responsibility for, 9–10, 72–80
missile research, 4–5
review board for research, 49
National Aeronautics and Space Act, 10, 79, 393
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
accidents, contingency plans for, 43, 363–70
Advanced Research and Technology, Office of, 288, 640
Apollo 204 Review Board, 422–23, 651–61
Apollo program review, 416
astronaut activities guidelines, 238
budget for, 145–47, 392, 395, 419–20, 436–37, 749, 750–51, 753–60; Bureau
of Budget review, 409, 419, 419n51, 588, 618–24
civilian control of, 10–11
cooperation with ARPA on spaceflight program, 11–12, 74–77, 82–89, 441
creation of, 52, 82
DOD support for, 376
earth orbit simulation, 280
Flight Research Center, 14n47
Gemini program development, 38, 253–64
Interagency Committee on Back Contamination, 408, 435, 665, 666–76,
679–81, 683–84, 744
Large Launch Vehicle Planning Group, NASA-DOD, 398, 399, 521, 523
Long Range Objectives Committee, 441
long-range plan (1959), 2, 4, 388, 392
Lunar and Planetary Programs Office, 406
lunar landing mission: contracting procedures, 489–90; cost of, 394, 478,
481, 486; fuel for, 483, 487–88; goal of, 388–90, 440–48; Manned Lunar
Working Group Task Force, 389, 457–71; work schedule for, 482–83
Manned Orbiting Laboratory, 41
Manned Space Flight and Public Affairs, Office of, 371
Manned Space Flight Experiments Board, 642
Manned Space Flight, Office of (OMSF), 402, 406, 535, 539, 544, 559, 617,
674, 725, 742