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  Marshall Space Flight Center History

  NASA and MSFC
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  Oral History Interview With Michael Bacaro

  Michael Bacato was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1927. When he started high school at the age of 14, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. When he graduated high school, he enlisted in the Navy in 1945 so he wouldn't have to go into the Army. He stayed in the Navy for two years. In the Navy, Michael was on a crew of the Destroyer. When he got discharged from the Navy, he then started college in 1948. To help pay for college, he started working with the merch marines selling out oil tanks. He finished this in 1951. Michael started out in college at New York University, and soon after he almost had to go back to the Navy because North Korea invaded South Korea. To avoid going back, he joined the ROTC at NYU with the airforce. In 1952, he entered the extended active duty with the United States airforce as a second lieutenant. He went to Keesler Airforce Base for training, and he spent two years there. There, he became a Radar Officer. After his training, Michael then started to become interested with Von Braun, and the development of rockets in Huntsville, AL. He then finally made a decision to leave the airforce, and he moved to Huntsville to work. He went into the Mechanical Engineering Design group. One of the first projects he was assigned to was the life support system, working with two monkeys. He then was offered a job in the Bioengineering group, which he liked much better, so he decided to stay with this group. His last program he worked on was on the Hubble Telescope, where he had the opportunity to work with Buzz Aldron.

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  Space Business Daily, November 1, 1965.

  This is Vol. 23, No. 1 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include ComSat's Apollo satelite, upcoming Gemini flights, the Voyager contract, the scheduling of the first flight test of the French SSBS, Lockheed Missile & Space's contract to study possible countermeasures against anti-missles, planned nuclear engine test activities, the launch of the Geodetic Explorer XXIX, the first underwater missiles delivered to the Navy, the developmet of "Dynaflare" for the Saturn program, and Department of Defense contracts.
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  Space Business Daily, November 2, 1965.

  This is Vol. 23, No. 2 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include the acceleration of Soviet space testing activities, requests for advanced satellite tracking studies, the first flight model of the French satellite family, Gemini VI and VII, upcoming conferences, financial backlogs, earnings, and sales changes, contracts awarded, and several negotiations.
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  Space Business Daily, November 3, 1965.

  This is Vol. 23, No. 3 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include the Apollo-support satellite system, the first manned Apollo flight scheduled, Soviet space acttivities, financial information, upcoming conferences, the future of space satellite systems, contracts awarded, and negotiations.
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  Space Business Daily, November 4, 1965.

  This is Vol. 23, No. 4 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include Soviet communication with France, a delay in the Surveyor landing schedule, the missile launch detections systems (the MIDAS program), parachute testing for the Apollo program, laser technology, upcoming conferences, contracts awarded, and negotiations.
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  Space Business Daily, November 5, 1965.

  This is Vol. 23, No. 5 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include the development of a anti-tank missile, an update on the Gemini VII and VI rendezvous mission, Soviet space activities, the launch of a French Vesta rocket, financial information, new grants, current studies, DOD contracts and negotiations, and a comparison of major space "firsts" achieved by the U.S. and the Soviet.
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  Space Business Daily, November 9, 1965.

  This is Vol. 23, No. 7 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include upcoming demonstrations of CLAM propulsion concepts and new rocket nozzle systems, the upcoming launch of France's first satellite, considerations of a manned Mars flyby in the coming decade, Apollo heat shields, the launch of the first NASA gravity graadient stabilized spacecraft, economical information, a summary of NASA's advanced study program, and DOD and NASA negotiations and contracts.
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  Space Business Daily, November 10, 1965.

  This is Vol. 23, No. 8 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include an lunar orbital survey, Explorer-class satellites, the MIDAS program, French space activities, the next Gemini flight scheduled, economic information, contracts and grants awarded, and DOD and NASA negotiations.
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  Space Business Daily, November 12, 1965.

  This is Vol. 23, No. 9 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include the ComSat Apollo system, plans for a direct FM broadcast satellite, satellite communications and weather systems, the development of the Gemini pressure suit, upcoming banquets and conferences, the study of slush hydrogen as possible fuel source, the Gemini IX mission, and DOD and NASA contracts and negotiations.