The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology, Volume 1Scientific and Technical Information Division, Office of Technology Utilization, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1969 - 269 pages |
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Abe Silverstein Air Force Aircraft Apollo Monthly Progress Apollo program Apollo Quarterly Status Apollo Spacecraft Project Apollo Technical Liaison April booster Chairman Chronology circumlunar command and service command module configuration contract contractor Corporation crew direct ascent Director earth orbit rendezvous Evaluation Events of 1962 fuel cell Gilruth Instrumentation Laboratory July Langley Research Center launch vehicle lunar excursion module lunar landing mission lunar mission lunar orbit rendezvous lunar surface Marshall Space Flight Martin Company meeting Memorandum Monthly Progress Report moon MSFC NASA NASA Headquarters November October Operations Panels payload Piland pounds of thrust Project Apollo Project Mercury proposed reentry requirements Research Steering Committee Robert rocket S-IVB Saturn C-1 Seamans Senate Staff Report service module Space Flight Center Space Flight Program Space Vehicle Spacecraft Project Office stage Task Group Technical Liaison Groups trajectory U.S. Congress unmanned Weekly Activity Report Wernher von Braun
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Page 88 - Now it is time to take longer strides, time for a great new American enterprise, time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth.
Page 91 - But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon — if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
Page 88 - Now it is time to take longer strides — time for a great new American enterprise — time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on earth.
Page 69 - Three of the Apollo Technical Liaison Groups (Trajectory Analysis, Heating, and Human Factors ) held their first meetings at the Ames Research Center. After reviewing the status of the contractors' Apollo feasibility studies, the Group on Trajectory Analysis discussed studies being made at NASA Centers. An urgent requirement was identified for a standard model of the Van Allen radiation belt which could be used in all trajectory analyses related to the Apollo program. The Group on Heating, after...
Page 143 - 3 nedy that the Apollo program be given DX priority [highest priority in the procurement of critical materials]. He also sent a memorandum to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, requesting that the Council consider advising the President to add the Apollo program to the DX priority list. Letter, Webb to The President, March 13, 1962; memorandum, Webb to Chairman, National Aeronautics and Space Council, "Request for Highest National Priority for...
Page 81 - They secured large boosters which have led to their being first in Sputnik, and led to their first putting their man in space. We are, I hope, going to be able to carry out our efforts, with due regard to the problem of the life of the men involved, this year. But we are behind . . . the news will be worse before it is better, and it will be some time before we catch up " Washington Post, April 13, 1961.
Page 135 - ... and our objective in making this effort, which we hope will place one of our citizens on the moon, is to develop in a new frontier of science, commerce and cooperation, the position of the United States and the Free World. This Nation belongs among the first to explore it, and among the first — if not the first — we shall be.
Page 171 - July 17 to five or six feet in size. The smallest objects on the lunar surface yet identified by telescope were about the size of a football field. MSC Space News Roundup, August 22, 1962, p. 8. In an address to the American Rocket Society lunar missions meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, James A. Van Allen, Chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of Iowa, said that protons of the inner radiation belt could be a serious hazard for extended manned space flight and that nuclear...
Page 14 - The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) provided the Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC) with authority and initial funding to develop the Juno V (later named Saturn) launch vehicle. ARPA Order 14 described the project : "Initiate a development program to provide a large space vehicle booster of approximately 1 .5 million pounds of thrust based on a cluster of available rocket engines. The immediate goal of this program is to demonstrate a full-scale captive dynamic firing by the end of calendar...
Page 188 - Man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space...