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

Exploring the Unknown
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quarantine procedures and back contamination, 666, 683–84
scientific value of Apollo, 438
Nicks, Oran, 457
Nike-Zeus, 563
Nimbus satellites, 484
Nixon, Richard M., 429, 432, 433, 434, 435–37, 639, 738, 796–97
Noa, U.S.S., 228
North, Warren J.
biographical information, 797
Joint Manned Satellite Panel, 86
Mercury program: astronaut selection, 127; MA-7 pilot debriefing, 230;
Redstone missile procurement, 117
MIS program, 120
Research Steering Committee on Manned Space Flight, 441
North American Aviation
Apollo spacecraft: building of, 522; contract award to, 398, 547; evaluation of,
553–55, 556–57; problems with, 421, 424; production of, 663; proposal, 507,
550, 551
booster decisions and, 543
criticism of, 423
direct ascent mode studies, 576
management of, 423–24
Phillips report on, 423, 424, 629–39, 661–64
Rocketdyne Division, 165, 522
Saturn S-II program, 555
Saturn V production, 663
work schedule at, 591
North American Rockwell, 708, 709
Northrup, 7, 52, 66–67
Nova
acceptance of, 525
Apollo program launch vehicles, 399, 400, 401, 494
development of, 399, 442, 462–64
direct ascent mode, 400
features of, 396, 521
launch facilities for, 396–97
lunar landing operations, 499, 529
recommendations against, 402–3, 540–44
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Oberth, Hermann, 80
O’Connor, E. F., 664
Oppenheimer, Carl, 681
Orbiting Solar Observatory, 752, 758, 759
O’Sullivan, S., 763
O’Sullivan, W. J., 49