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NASA personnel wait to greet President John F. Kennedy during his second visit to Huntsville.
Kennedy visited Huntsville on Armed Forces Day 1963. He first visited the area on September 11, 1962. -
"Apollo Saturn LIEF Operations Plan."
This paper identifies the support functions performed by MSFC through the Launch Information Exchange Facility (LIEF) during the Apollo Saturn Mission Operations and other facilities required to carry out these functions. It also identifies mission specific documents required for operation. Note that page 20 is missing. -
1966 Chronology of Marshall Space Flight Center.
This draft copy of the chronology includes a memorandum from Marshall Historian L. L. Jones of the Historical Office. -
Interview with G.A. Phelps (Seal Beach?).
Interview on Materials Management, Configuration Management, and Changes in Design. Full side of tape.Tags Oral History -
Interviews with Fontaine and Attinello, Davenport, Rocketdyne.
Interview with Rocketdyne engineers on rocket engine design and stability. Both sides of tape.Tags Oral History -
Interview with H. Paul.
Interview with German engineer on engine design, propellants, thermodynamics, and design barriers and overcoming them. Both sides of tape.Tags Oral History -
Interview with Newell.
Interview on the Development of Saturn and the general design and management philospohy of NASA. One side of tape only.Tags Oral History -
Interview with Schwartz (chief engineer?).
Interview on the development of Saturn engine design and control, as well as life at the Mississippi engine test site. Both sides of the tape.Tags Oral History -
Interview with Ed Mims.
Interview on the fuels involved in the Saturn as well as the transport and management of these fuels. Both sides of tape.Tags Oral History -
Interview with Bauer.
Interview on the developments on Thor applied to the Saturn Program, structures, Welding, Machining of Part, and Insulation of the rocket. Both sides of tape.Tags Oral History -
Interviews with Weidner and Neubert.
Side 1 is an interview with Weidner and Neubert on the testing of Saturn and the different design philosophies of various NASA groups.Tags Oral History -
Interviews with Sawyer and Kudebeh (Rocketdyne?).
Interviews with Sawyer (0 - 16:58 S1) and Kudebeh (16:58 S1 - end S2) on weight penalties, schedule/performance bonuses, and project management.Tags Oral History -
Interviews with Shields and Davenport (Rocketdyne?).
Interview with Davenport (0-23:44 S1) and Shields (23:44 S1 - end S2). Topics covered include the reliability of the F1 engine, Skylab, and electronic manufacturing.Tags Oral History -
Interview with Dieter Grau.
Dieter Grau interviewed on failure analysis and management of Saturn program. Both sides of tape.Tags Oral History -
William A. Schulze and Hans Palaoro at Marshall Space Flight Center.
The bulletin board behind Schulze reads "Vehicle Engineering Branch." Palaoro was the head of the Vehicle Systems Engineering Branch of the Structures and Mechanics Division at Marshall Space Flight Center. -
"Living in Huntsville and Madison County: Home of George C. Marshall Space Flight Center."
This pamphlet includes a memo to "Key MSFC Employees" from M. Keith Wible, Chief of the Manpower Utilization and Administration Office at Marshall Space Flight Center. -
Marshall Space Flight Center "Lunar Landing Celebration" program.
The celebration included an employee picnic, a dance, and an open house. -
Marshall Space Flight Center Space Day 1961 program.
The program includes "Marshall Center Highlights" from the Center's first year, a message from director Wernher von Braun, a photograph of the Space Queen and Princesses, and a guide to the Center's buildings. -
"A Comparison of an MIT Explicit Guidance Principle with MSFC Iterative Guidance."
From the summary: "Both [guidance] schemes steer toward a specified end point. The MIT scheme uses thrust to cancel out the effective gravity, a nonlinear term, which may be inefficient in certain cases. The MSFC scheme is more closely connected with calculus of variations and optimization theory in a reasonable degree of approximation." -
"General Formulation of the Iterative Guidance Mode."
From the abstract: "This report discusses the iterative guidance mode and its application to three-dimensional upper stage vacuum flight. It is an inertial or closed system mode in that the only inputs required after liftoff are available from the onboard navigation system. That is, the iterative scheme computes steering commands as a function of the state and of the vehicle - velocity, position, longitudinal acceleration, and gravitational acceleration - and the desired cutoff conditions. The guidance commands are updated each guidance cycle, using the updated state of the vehicle. The iterative guidance scheme is a path adaptive guidance scheme in that it will retain its optimization properties under all expected types and magnitudes of vehicle perturbations without any loss in accuracy at liftoff." -
M. Urlaub - center.
Interview with Matt Urlaub by Wernher von Braun and others around the Apollo program development and difficulties in its development. One side only. -
Skylab.
Wernher von Braun conversing with multiple people on the management of Saturn/Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle programs. Both sides. -
"Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce honors Dr. William R. Lucas."
From a dinner held in honor of the retirement of MSFC director William R. Lucas in 1986. It includes a biographical sketch and photographs of Lucas. -
Circular announcing MSFC's involvement with the documentation of the Saturn program at the UAH Research Institute.
The documentation noted in the circular is available at UAH Archives and Special Collections in the Saturn V Collection. -
The Apollo Lunar Surface Drill team at Marshall Space Flight Center.
John Bensko, Jr. is seated in the center of the front row. -
"SkyLab: An Oral History of America's First Space Station."
This video was released in conjunction with Skylab's 30th anniversary in 2003. It contains video footage from the Skylab program as well as interviews with those associated with the program.Tags Oral History -
"The Skylab Student Project."
Students involved in the student experiment selection are: Bochsler, Daniel C., Converse, Vincent W., Crites, Troy A., Dunlap, W. Brian, Hamilton, John C., Hopfield, Alison, Jackson, Kathy L., Johnston, Roger G., Leventhal, Jeanne L., Meister, Todd A., Miles, Judith S., Peltz, Cheryl A., Quist, Terry C., Reihs, Joe W., Schlack, Donald W., Wordekemper, Joel G., Shannon, Neal W., Staehle, Robert L., Zmolek, Joe B. Students whose experiments were held in consideration for future programs are Stein, Keith L., Brandt, Kent M., McGee, Keith, Sherhart, Kirk M., Merkel, Gregory A., Healy, James E. -
"SL-II MC-60/1 Time: 22:50 CDT 14:50 GET 5/25/73" - "SL-II MC 64/1 Time: 01:25 CDT 17:25 GET 5/25/73."
This mission commentary depicts Skylab 2 docking with Skylab 1. This mission commentary also depicts the Skylab 2 crew beginning work on resolving the solar panel and micrometeoroid shield problems. -
"Skylab Mission Commentary 5/14/73 1:10 CST 18:04 GET 5:32 MC27/1" - "Skylab Mission Commentary 5/15/73 1:20 CST MC38/1."
This mission commentary depicts NASA's attempts to alleviate some of the temperature issues caused by the broken micrometeoroid shield on Skylab 1. -
Skylab Impact Corridor Report.
This is a report about the Skylab debris field in Australia. -
"APOLLO TELESCOPE MOUNT SEQUENTIAL FLOW PLAN."
This is a manual that describes the handling and use of the Apollo Telescope Mount prior to launch. -
"MSFC SKYLAB CREW SYSTEMS MISSION EVALUATION."
This is a hardware evaluation and assessment of the skylab habitat systems based on the feedback from the Skylab crews. -
"Final Crew System Corollary Experiment Input to the Skylab Final Mission Evaluation Report."
This report describes the experiments onboard Skylab, what the data the experiments gather indicates, and the equipment that the experiments utilize. This includes the spider experiment. -
Skylab "MSFC SKYLAB NEUTRAL BUOYANCY SIMULATOR" Technical MEMORANDUM.
This report describes the importance of the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator for preparing the Skylab astronauts to work in space.