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SP-4012 NASA HISTORICAL DATA BOOK: VOLUME III

PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS 1969-1978

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Phase I

January 1969 - November 1971

Administrator/Deputy Administrator

Associate Administrator, Office of Space Science and Applications (John E. Naugle)

Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Space Science and Applications (Oran W. Nicks)

Deputy Associate Administrator (Science), Office of Space Science and Applications (Henry J. Smith)

Deputy Associate Administrator (Engineering), Office of Space Science and Applications (Vincent L. Johnson)

Deputy Associate Administrator (Applications), Office of Space Science and Applications (Leonard Jaffe; added 1970)

Director, Advanced Programs (Pitt Thorne; Robert G. Wilson, 1970)

Director, Program Review and Resources Management (Eldon D. Taylor; Richard L. Daniels, 1971)

Director, Bioscience Programs (Orr E. Reynolds; Benny B. Hall, acting, late 1970; office reorganized as part of OMSF in early 1971)

Deputy Director, Bioscience Programs (B. Hall)

Assistant Director (Science), Bioscience Programs (D. Jenkins)

Program Chief, Advanced Programs and Technology (Loyal G. Goff)

Program Manager, Biosatellite (T. Dallow)

Program Chief, Exobiology (S. Young)

Program Chief, Environmental Biology (J. Saunders)

Program Chief, Physical Biology (G. Jacobs)

Program Chief, Planetary Quarantine (L. Hall)

Director, Space Applications Program (Leonard Jaffe; dropped as a program office in 1970; Jaffe became Deputy Assoc. Admin. for Applications; reorganized as two program offices - Communications and Earth Observations)*

Director, Communications Programs (R. B. Marsten; added 1970; see also above) Director, Earth Observations Program (John M. DeNoyer; added 1970; see also above)

Director, Launch Vehicle and Propulsion Programs (Joseph B. Mahon)**

Director, Planetary Programs (Hearth; Robert S. Kraemer, 1971)

Assistant Director, Planetary Programs (Donald G. Rea)

Program Manager, Advanced Programs and Technology (Robert Kraemer)

Program Manager, Surface Lab. Science (Milton A. Mitz)

Program Manager, Lunar Orbiter (Lee Scherer)

Program Manager, Mariner V (Glenn Reiff)

Program Manager, Mariner 69 (N. Cunningham)

Program Manager, Mariner Mars 71 (Carl W. Glahn)

Program Manager, Pioneer Program (Reiff)

Program Chief, Planetary Astronomy (W. Brunk)

Program Chief, Planetary Atmospheres (R. Fellows)

Program Chief, Planetology (E. Dwornik)

 

 

Phase II

December 1971-1978

 

 

Administrator/Deputy Administrator

Associate Administrator, Office of Space Science (Naugle; Noel Hinners, June 1974)

Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Space Science (V. Johnson; vacant, fall of 1974; John M. Thole, late 1974; Anthony J. Calio, fall 1975; Andrew J. Stofan, 1977)

Deputy Associate Administrator (Science), Office of Space Science (H. Smith; Ichtiaque Rasool, fall 1975)

Deputy Associate Administrator (Engineering), Office of Space Science (Milton W. Rosen; added spring 1973; dropped fall 1975; dropped 1977)

Director, Advanced Programs (Wilson; dropped 1974)

Director, Program Review and Resource Management/Program Analysis (Daniels; Charles Wash, 1976)

Director, Launch Vehicle and Propulsion Programs (Mahon; office reorganized as part of OMSF in spring 1976 and renamed Office of Expendable Launch Vehicles)**

Director, Planetary Programs (Kraemer; A. Thomas Young, 1976)

Director, Physics and Astronomy/Astrophysics (Mitchell; Alois W. Schardt, fall 1973; T. B. Norris, 1976)

Director, Lunar Programs (William T. O'Bryant; added spring 1973; Noel W. Hinners, acting, late 1974; Edward A. Flinn; early 1975; dropped 1976)

Director, Life Sciences Programs (Winter; moved from OMSF early 1976; Gerald A. Soffen, acting, late 1978)

Director, Solar Terrestrial Programs (Harold Glaser; added early 1976)

Director, Physics and Astronomy Programs (Jesse Mitchell)

Deputy Director, Physics and Astronomy Programs (Mitchell, acting)

Program Chief, Advanced Programs and Technology (Marcel J. Ancremanne, acting)

Program Manager, Astronomical Observatories (C. Ashworth)

Program Manager, Explorers and Sounding Rockets (J. Holtz)

Program Manager, Geophysical Observatories (T. Fischetti)

Chief, Astronomy (Nancy Roman)

Chief, Interplanetary Dust and Cometary Physics (M. Dubin)

Chief, Ionospheric Physics (E. Schmerling)

Chief, Particles and Fields (Alois W. Schardt)

Chief, Solar Physics (N. Glaser)

Director, Upper Atmospheric Research (James King, Jr.; added early 1976; Lawrence R. Greenwood, fall 1976; dropped 1977)

*See chapter 4 for a discussion of the management of space applications programs.

**See chapter 2 for a discussion of the management of launch vehicle programs.