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"14 Employees Graduated With First UAH Class."
Clipping from the Marshall Star, May 29, 1968, vol. 8, no. 36. -
Memorandum from Dr. C. Adams, Chairman of the Ad Hoc Building Committee, to Christel McCanless, Librarian, Huntsville Campus Library.
The memo contains calculations for necessary shelf space and access space in the proposed library building and takes account of collection growth. Includes floor plans and elevations. -
"Application of Nuclear Propulsion to the Mars Manned Landing Mission."
This report has been prepared to provide Aerojet management and the interested NASA offices with nuclear propulsion decision aid data. The primary intent of these analyses is to evaluate potential space missions which may utilize nuclear propulsion in an effort to determine the most desirable characteristics of a nuclear propulsion system. -
Marshall Space Flight Center History
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Rocket City, USA Booklet by Akens, David, circa 1960
Huntsville Tours -
"Interview With Dr. Arthur Rudolph."
Transcription of an interview between Davis S. Akens and Arthur Rudolph -
"Historical Sketch of MSFC."
A rocket from the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center will carry the first American to the moon, and the deadline is 1970. Because of the Center's expanding role in space, there are increasing requests for information about our activities. This brief historical sketch should help to answer questions about our past, our present, and our hopes for the future. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is the largest installation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Marshall Center is NASA's agency responsible for large space rockets and related research. MSFC employs about 7500 civil service employees with an annual payroll of more than {dollar}82 million. In addition approximately 4300 contractor employees work for MSFC on the Arsenal, earning an estimated {dollar}43 million. The Center occupies about 1800 acres near Huntsville, Alabama; in this large area are 270 buildings with floor space totalling about 4,000,000 square feet for a real estate and property value of about {dollar}325 million. MSFC's 1966 fiscal year budget was {dollar}1.8 billion. Obviously MSFC has much human and monetary worth behind United States round trips to the moon and beyond. In addition to its size, MSFC is unique because it has a large rocket development team with more than three decades of experience. Prior to the rocket work that dates back to Peenemuende [sic] the world heard little and cared less concerning rockets and space. As a group Marshall has always thought big. It has worked together as a group, and equally well with fellow scientists throughout the Free World, to get the most into space soonest. This is why there is increasing interest in larger and larger rockets and rocket programs from our Center, a fact generating more and more questions about our Center, and in turn generating a "workload" request for this sketch by the Historical Office. We hope that you enjoy our historical sketch, which could as well be entitled "Closer and Closer Views of the Moon and Beyond." David S. Akens, MSFC Historian. -
Dr. von Braun's calendars and scrapbooks indicate that these were his personal contacts with President Kennedy, Vice-President Johnson and members of their immediate staff.
The first page contains a typed routing slip. A list of Wernher von Braun's meetings with President Kennedy, the Vice President and members of their immediate staff. -
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"Design and Development of a 1,500,000-Pound-Thrust Space Booster Engine."
Describes the F-1 engine design and components. -
"Design of the Saturn S-IV Stage Propellant Utilization System."
Describes the SIV vehicle and its components. Presented at: IRE International Convention. -
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"Government Grants & Contracts."
The Army medical contract, grant, and research interest in the bio-science area. -
"Instrumentation Programming for Computer Controlled Digital Data Processing."
A number of considerations are necessary in instrumentation programming, many of which are either not applicable or applicable to a lesser degree in other types of programming. This paper discusses these problems in general terms and illustrates how they have been dealt with specifically. The latter is done by describing the programming and operation of a data reduction system. -
"Problems experienced in program management."
Letter to "management" detailing problems identified in management's handling of projects. -
"Manufacturing problems with printed circuit boards and how to avoid them."
To be presented at the NASA / Rocketdyne Manufacturing Technology Review. Focuses on how best to avoid printed circuit boards. -
"Letter to Mr. David L. Christensen."
Letter David L. Christensen from W. Angele responding to a pervious request. -
"Apollo 7 Mission Commentary."
This document contains the transcript from the Apollo 7 mission. This transcript contains the communication from the first seven days of the ten day mission. -
"Fort Bliss Old Timers: A Progress Report."
Subtitled "Some of the Old Timers' Contributions to the Science of Space," this booklet commemorates the accomplishments of the group of engineers posted at Fort Bliss, Texas, beginning in 1945. It includes a brief history of rocket development in Germany from 1929 through 1944, photographs of the 1965 Old Timers Reunion, and a directory of the oldtimers. It also includes a transcript of a speech given by Wernher von Braun in honor of Walter Dornberger's retirement. -
1963 Fort Bliss Old Timers Reunion booklet and letter.
The materials include a letter from Walter Wiesman and an Old Timers Reunion booklet. The booklet includes reproduced news clippings, the reunion program, and photographs from Fort Bliss, as well as photographs of reunion attendees and activities with subjects identified. The reunion booklet also includes photographs from a meeting of the Alabama Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. -
"Drawing number assignment"
The document is a photocopy of the Drawing Number Assignments from August 1947 to May 1953. Categories include but are not limited to the drawing number, title, designer, and date finished. Inscribed on the front is "original book property of Jay Laue, MSFC." -
"Carbon-Burning Nucleosynthesis at Constant Temperature."
"Carbon-Burning Nucleosyntesis at Constant Temperature" is part of the Orange Aid preprint Series in Nuclear Astrophysics, August 1968. The abstract states "Syntesis of elements during thermonuclear burning of carbon is examined at a series of temperatures (T=0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4) and for several initial compositions. Recent eperimental results (Ptterson, Winkler, and Zaidins 1968) for the 12C+!@C reaction are used. A general method for numerical solution of nuclear-reaction networkds is described. At the higher temperatures in the range now thought to be appropriate for carbon burning in stars, -
Pamphlet advertising Arrow Development rides and equipment.
The pamphlet advertises rides and equipment including train rides, merry-go-rounds, platform rides, and boat rides. -
Price list of Arrow Development rides and equipment.
This price list gives the prices for rides including "Merry-Go-Rounds" and their equipment, the "Kiddie Boat Ride," the "Flying Platform Ride," "Modern Merry To Round Drive Units," and trains and their tracks. -
Postcard of the 3/5 scale Maxwell and 1910 Ford cars.
The front of this postcard shows photographs of the 3/5 scale Maxwell and 1910 Ford replica antique cars while the back provides information on them. -
David McGlathery attends the first integrated class at UAH.
McGlathery, shown second from left at the rear, was the first African American student to gain admission to UAH. In the caption, the AP notes that "he enrolled at the previously white institution today without incident." -
"List of Academic Theses Since 1961 Related to the History of Aeronautics and Astronautics."
This preliminary listing of academic theses of interest to historians and social scientists is made available for general information, critical comments and related suggestions. The NASA Historical Advisory Committee suggested that such a listing might provide useful perspective on contemporary scholarship. Mr. Charles Atkins, a member of our Summer Seminar on "History, Social Science and Space" and graduate student in Political Science at M.I.T., kindly undertook this task. The NASA Historical Staff is also sponsoring preparation of a bibliography of bibliographies on the history of aeronautics and astronautics, and is undertaking a list of research resources available for academic scholarship. These will be available sometime this fall. Eugene M. Emme, NASA Historian.; NNH-61.; FOREWORD: This listing represents a first attempt to compile academic theses of relevance to the history of aeronautics and astronautics. It has been estimated that almost 70,000 doctoral dissertations have been completed in American universities since 1961, so this select compilation must be regarded as preliminary. In accord with the desire of the Historical Staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to assist scholarly research, it is hoped that this list may be suggestive. It will, hopefully, stimulate a response which will permit additions to this listing of interest to historians and other scholars concerned with science, technology, and public policy in the twentieth century. -
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Commencement Exercises of Auburn University, fall quarter 1962.
The program includes the presentation of Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, to William A. Mrazek. -
"Tiny Tots causing Traffic Jams..in your aisles? Eliminate them..."
The leaflet advertises Kiddie Rides to chain stores. These rides include the Tusko Elephant, Tusko Cow Pony, Tusko Kamel, Tusko Charger, and Tusko Geep. -
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Marshall County Historical Site Survey
This section contains reports related to the Marshall County Historical Site Survey. The reports are centered around soil-maps and other maps related to traffic. -
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.