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"Outline of the capability of technical facilities and equipment at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center."
Outline of the equipment present at George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. -
"Pan Am Clipper : Guided Missiles Range Division : December, 1964."
A collection of articles, one of which musing about the landing on/colonization of Mars in the future. -
"Part analysis program."
Includes carbon copy of letter sent to David L. Christensen from Ernst Lange regarding the Part Analysis program. -
"Payload integration for space experimentation."
Space experimentation requires an increasingly complex planning and systems engineering effort to meet the demand for highest precision and reliability of all measurements and observations. A companion paper discusses the interfaces between the scientific/technical areas of space experimentation and the instruments, subsystems and support systems within the spacecraft. This paper deals with the organization and the procedures which are needed to perform the difficult payload integration process for space experimentation. In the course of this process it is necessary to define the experiments completely, to describe all instruments in terms of engineering specifications, to investigate the commonality of equipment, to group the experiments into mission compatible payloads, to specify acceptable loads on all subsystems and astronauts (when present) and to plan for all contingencies during the flight. -
"Pershing (u): a report bibliography."
List of unclassified reports. -
"Personnel administration."
Presented at the Society for Personnel Administration. Discusses the problems with the current administration. -
"Pesco progress."
Article covering the development of cryogenic pumps. -
"Philosophy and practices of reliability as applied in the design of the Saturn Instrumentation System."
The basic engineering approach used in the Saturn instrumentation system has evolved to provide a highly reliable design for short periods of operation. The airborne measuring and telemetry systems including preflight tests, inspection, documentation, and feedback between the users and designers are discussed. The apparent differences between the practice and theory of reliability are rationalized. Some consideration is given to new problems in designing systems that must operate in hostile environments for long periods. The potential contribution of redundancy as a design concept is discussed.; This paper is concerned with the airborne measuring and telemetry systems; it does not attempt to treat the entire Saturn instrumentation system which consists of tracking devices including optical, radar, and Doppler, plus television, film cameras, and a myriad of instruments connected with factory checkout, ground test, and launch. -
"Planning for strategic deterrence in the 1970s."
Article discussing money-resources and the budget. -
"Plastics in space flight programs."
Article aimed at improving the NASA's ability to complete its projects."