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

Exploring the Unknown
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Wasson, John, 763
Waterman, Alan, 471
Watkins, Julia R., 123
Watkins, Shirley, 123
Watson, Marvin, 288–91
Webb, James E.
Anderson, relationship with, 423, 424
Apollo program: Apollo 1 (204) fire, 422–24, 651, 653–55, 657; Apollo 8, 427,
428, 692, 695, 699–700; budget for, 391–92, 419–20; criticism of, 415, 603–7;
facilities for, 396, 512–20; funding for, 588–601; LOR concept, dispute over,
403–6, 568–70, 574–85, 586–88; management of, 400, 422, 423–24; mission
control center location, 566–68; Phillips report on North American
Aviation, 423, 630, 661–65; priority of, 409–12, 562–63; procurement plan,
501–12; schedule for, 421, 588–601, 649–51; spacecraft contract, 547
appointment of to NASA, 391, 629
biographical information, 391, 804
Congress, relationship with, 424, 662
Gemini program: celebrations following missions, 43, 290–91; circumlunar
mission proposal, 40–41, 273, 277–78; GT-4, EVA during, 292–96; GT­
4, success of, 44–45; GT-6 and GT-7, rendezvous between, 346–47; space
rescue plans, 42–43, 283, 285–88; success of, 296–98
Holmes, relationship with, 409, 410, 588
Johnson, meeting with, 429
Mercury program: astronaut activities guidelines, 229–30, 236–38; MA-6
postlaunch telegram, 214–23; propaganda use of astronauts’ experiences,
205–7
NASA budget approval, 392
National Space Plan recommendations, 394–95, 478–79, 490–93
North American Aviation, management of, 423–24
post-Apollo planning, 422
resignation of, 429
Saturn V production termination, 421–22, 687–88
scientific value of human spaceflight, 392, 471–74
Seamans, relationship with, 424
Soviet lunar landing program, 425
space preeminence goal, 411, 412, 598–600
space race with Soviets meeting, 393
success of, 422
United Nations conference, 427–28, 692
U.S.-Soviet cooperation, 417, 418–19
Weeks, Michael, 64–65
Weinberger, Caspar W., 437, 749, 753–60, 804
Welsh, Edward C.
Apollo program, 593
biographical information, 804–5
space rescue plans, 283, 284, 286, 287
Western Electric, 243
Wetherill, George, 763
Whitbeck, Phillip H., 511
White, Edward H., Jr.