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Space Task Group, “Appointment of Source Evaluation Board,”
July 25, 1961; James E. Webb, Administrator, “Establishment
of Sub-Committees to the NASA Source Evaluation Board
Project Apollo,” July 25, 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .501
II-14
II-15, 16, 17,
and 18
II-19
II-20
II-21
II-22
“Memorandum for the President by James Webb, September
14, 1961. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
John C. Houbolt, NASA, Langley Research Center, Letter to
Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., Associate Administrator, NASA,
November 15, 1961; Langley Research Center, NASA,
“MANNED LUNAR-LANDING through use of LUNAR­
ORBIT RENDEZVOUS,” Volume 1, October 31, 1961;
Joseph Shea, Memorandum for the Record, January 26, 1962;
“Concluding Remarks by Dr. Wernher von Braun About
Mode Selection for the Lunar Landing Program Given to Dr.
Joseph F. Shea, Deputy Director (Systems) Office of Manned
Space Flight,” June 7, 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Jerome Wiesner, “Memorandum for Theodore Sorensen,”
November 20, 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
NASA, “Project Apollo Source Evaluation Board Report:
Apollo Spacecraft,” NASA RFP 9-150, November 24, 1961 . . . . . 547
Joseph F. Shea, Deputy Director for Systems, Office of
Manned Space Flight, to Director of Aerospace Medicine
and Director of Spacecraft & Flight Missions, “Selection and
Training of Apollo Crew Members,” March 29, 1962 . . . . . . . . . 558
Owen E. Maynard, Spacecraft Integration Branch, NASA
Manned Spacecraft Center, Memorandum for Associate
Director, “Comments on Mr. Frank Casey’s visit to J.P.L. to
discuss Ranger and follow-on programs which could provide
information pertinent to Apollo missions,” February 1, 1962. . .
559
II-23 Letter to the President from James E. Webb, March 13, 1962 . . 562
II-24
II-25
Ted H. Skopinski, Assistant Head, Trajectory Analysis
Section, NASA-Manned Spacecraft Center, to Chief, Systems
Integration Division, “Selection of lunar landing site for the
early Apollo lunar missions,” March 21, 1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
Memorandum to Administrator from Robert C. Seamans,
Jr., Associate Administrator, “Location of Mission Control
Center,” July 10, 1962. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
II-26, 27, 28, Memorandum from Donald Hornig, Chairman, Space Vehicle
29, 30, and 31 Panel, President’s Scientific Advisory Committee, to Dr.
Jerome Wiesner, “Summary of Views of Space Vehicle Panel,”
July 11, 1962; Letter from Jerome Wiesner to James Webb, July 17,
1962; Letter from James Webb to Jerome Wiesner, August 20, 1962;