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

846 Index
Apollo 1 (204) fire, 422, 651, 652
biographical information, 805
Gemini IV (GT-4): altitude chamber testing approval, 292; celebration
following mission, 43; debriefing following, 298–344; EVA during, 39, 44,
268, 297, 298–344
visits with Russian cosmonauts, 43, 149
White, George C., Jr., 653, 657–61
White, S. C., 230, 511
White, Thomas D., 77–79
White Sands, NM, 397
Wickham, Paul, 177–92
Wiesner, Jerome B.
Ad Hoc Committee on Space, 390
Apollo program: funding for, 412, 601–3; LOR concept, 403–5, 568–85; LOR
concept, dispute over, 404–5, 569; mission mode decision, 406; progress on,
400, 544–47; schedule for, acceleration of, 411–12, 588, 589, 593, 598, 601–3
biographical information, 805
civilians as astronauts, 175–77
science advisor role of, 390
scientific value of human spaceflight, 392, 471–74
space race with Soviets meeting, 393, 475
space transition team chair, 472
spaceflight in response to Soviet launch, 31, 175–77
U.S.-Soviet cooperation, 418, 612, 613, 614–16
Webb appointment to NASA, 391
Williams, John J., 653, 657–61
Williams, Walter C.
biographical information, 805
circumlunar mission proposal, 204
Joint Manned Satellite Panel, 86, 87
MA-6 postlaunch telegram, 214–23
Mercury program review, 36, 239–45
Source Evaluation Board chair, 507, 510
Space Task Group membership, 179
spaceflight review board, 49
Wilson, Charles L., 151–58
Wise, Donald, 438
Wolman, William, 502
Wood, Clotaire, 72, 77, 78, 120
Wood, John, 763
Wooley, Bennic C., 743
Worden, Alfred, 21n70, 439
Wright Air Development Center, Aerospace Medical Laboratory, 15, 141, 151,
155, 157
Wright Air Development Division, 168, 169
WS-117L program, 83–84