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

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Letter to Jerome Wiesner from James E. Webb with attached Office
of Manned Space Flight, NASA, “Manned Lunar Landing Mode
Comparison,” October 24, 1962; “Memorandum to Dr. [Jerome]
Wiesner from McG. B. [McGeorge Bundy],” November 7, 1962;
Letter from James E. Webb to the President, November 1962
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
II-32, 33, and 34 Letter from James E. Webb, NASA Administrator, to President
John F. Kennedy, October 29, 1962; Transcript of Presidential
Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, November
21, 1962; “Memorandum to President from Jerome Wiesner
Re: Acceleration of the Manned Lunar Landing Program,”
January 10, 1963. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
II-35 “Letter to James Webb from Vannevar Bush,” April 11, 1963 . . . 603
II-36, 37, and 38 John Disher and Del Tischler, “Apollo Cost and Schedule
Evaluation,” September 28, 1963; Clyde B. Bothmer, “Minutes
of Management Council Meeting, October 29, 1963, in
Washington, DC” October 31, 1963; George E. Mueller,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight,
NASA, to the Directors of the Manned Spacecraft Center,
Launch Operations Center, and Marshall Space Flight
Center, “Revised Manned Space Flight Schedule,” October
31, 1963. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
II-39 and 40
II-41
II-42
Letter to Representative Albert Thomas from President John
F. Kennedy, September 23, 1963; Memorandum from Jerome
B. Wiesner to the President, “The US Proposal for a Joint US­
USSR Lunar Program,” October 29, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612
Memorandum to Robert R. Gilruth, Director, Manned
Spacecraft Center from Verne C. Fryklund, Jr., Acting
Director, Manned Space Sciences Division, Office of Space
Sciences, NASA Headquarters, “Scientific Guidelines for the
Project Apollo,” October 8, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616
Bureau of the Budget, “Special Space Review,” Draft Report,
November 29, 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
II-43 “Oral History Interview w/Theodore Sorensen,” March 26,
1964. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
II-44
II-45
Letter to J. Leland Atwood, President, North American
Aviation, Inc. from Major General Samuel C. Phillips, USAF,
Apollo Program Director, December 19, 1965, with attached
“NASA Review Team Report” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Memorandum to Assistant Administrator, Office of Planning,
from William E. Lilly, Director, MSF Program Control,
“Saturn Apollo Applications Summary Description,” 3 June
1966. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639