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[331-340] INDEX
 
 
 
Abbott, Ira, 36
Abelson, Phillip, 250
acquistion process, 84-86
Ad Hoc Committee on Space, 17
Ad Hoc Science Advisory Committee 250
Administration, NASA Office of, 38, 48, 54
administrative services, 123
Administrative, NASA, 2, 4, 6, 15, 25, 29 30;
Office of, 6, 7, 50, 52, 53, 61
Advanced Manned Missions, 194
Advanced Mission Studies Program, 173
Advanced Missions, 134;
Office of, 175
Advanced Orbiting Solar Observatory 187, 247, 253
Advanced Programs and Technology group, 169
Advanced Research and Technology NASA Office of, 36, 43, 64, 142, 144 146, 151, 163-67, 169, 256;
Board 165;
Mission Analysis Division, 165,
Program and Resources Division, 165
Advanced Research Programs, NASA Office of, 36
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), 13, 14, 15, 17, 214, 215, 216
advanced studies, 147-52
Advanced Study Mission Review, 150
Advent, 214-17
advisors, outside, 249-53
Advisory Committee on Organization (Kimpton committee), NASA, 29, 33
Advisory Panel on Federal Pay Systems, 112
Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, 54
Aeronautics and Astronautics Coordinating Board (AACB), 15, 34, 144, 149, 157, 218, 225, 228, 229, 244;
Launch Vehicle Panel, 227;
Manned Space Flight Panel, 149
Aerospace Corporation, 66, 70, 218
"affirmative action," 121
Agnew, Spiro, 260
air-breathing (cruise) missiles, 11
Air Force, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 69, 70, 79, 122, 211, 214, 216, 217, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 228, 230, 232, 236
Ballistic Missile Division, 217;
Cambridge Research Laboratory, 228
Configuration Control Board, 219
National Range Division, 221;
Strategic Weapons Evaluation Committee, 11;
Systems Command, 217, 218
Air Materiel Command, 217
Air Research and Development Command, Western Development Division, 69, 70, 217
Agena, 219, 221
Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz," 25, 267
"all-up" flight testing, 6, 267
Alvarez, Luis, 250
American Federation of Government Employees, 124, 131, 136, 137
American Telephone and Telegraph, 20, 88
Ames, Joseph, 10
Ames Research Center, 10, 132, 36, 164, 213, 228, 230, 271
Anderson, Clinton, 54, 199, 201, 234
Anti-Deficiency Act, 187
Antigua tracking station, 224
Apollo, 1, 3, 8, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 45, 64, 65, 70, 74, 78, 79, 80, 85, 89, 121, 124, 141, 172, 173, 174, 187, 205, 207, 208, 223, 224, 225, 229, 262, 264, 267, 268, 270, 271, 272, 273;
command and service modules, 6, 7, 19, 73, 125;
fire, 7, 24, 25, 53, 89, 161, 194, 209, 253;
lunar orbit rendezvous, 20-21;
missions, 122
Apollo Applications, 25, 53, 91, 99, 114, 161, 173, 175, 189, 235, 245, 248, 253, 254, 255, 258, 259
Apollo Executive Group, 174
Apollo Extensions Systems, 244, 245
Apollo Program Office, 89, 127
Apollo Spacecraft Automatic Checkout Equipment, 89
Apollo-Soyuz, 97, 221, 226
Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM), 137, 247, 248, 253, 270
Applications, NASA Office of, 36, 45
Applications, Technology Satellite, 156
appropriation accounts, 182-85
Armed Services Committee, 12
Armed Services Procurement Act, 69
Armed Services Procurement Regulations, 72, 76, 95
Armstrong, Neil, 25, 122, 267
Army, 13, 15, 16, 69, 214;
Ballistic Missile Agency, 107, 112;
Corps of Engineers, 19, 22, 49, 211
Arnold Engineering Development Center, 145
Ascension Island tracking station, 224
Associate Administrator, NASA, 5, 6, 30, 31, 33, 35, 36, 38, 45
Associate Administrator for Organization and Management, NASA, 7
astronauts, selection, 122-23
Astronomy Missions Board, 251, 270, 271
Atlas, 11, 69, 212, 219, 221
Atomic Energy Commission, 13, 15, 16, 75, 268, 269
Audit Division, NASA, 55
Authorization Act, 197
authorization and appropriation cycle, 196-202
automatic data processing (ADP), 36, 67, 126

 

B-52 bomber, 98
B-58 bomber, 70
B-70 bomber, 85, 229, 232
Ballistic Missile Agency Development Operations Division, 16
Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, 19
ballistic missiles, 11, 70, 85;
intercontinental, 11;
intermediate range, 11
Barnett, Henry, 127
base operations, 123, 126
Bay of Pigs invasion, 17
Bell, David, 75
Bell report, 75-79, 91, 101, 112
Bell System, 89
Bellcomm, Inc., 66, 74, 88, 89, 90, 91, 174, 257, 259, 263
Biosatellite, 271
Bisplinghoff, Raymond, 40, 43
Boeing Co., 4, 19, 25, 70, 80, 88, 90, 91, 92, 98, 103, 219, 268
Bolender, Brig. Gen. C. H. 122
Bomarc missile, 70, 98
Boone, W. Fred, 219, 220, 223, 236
boosters, 16, 18
Booz, Allen and Hamilton, 103, 104, 105
Brackett, Ernest, 73, 74
Braun, Wernher von. See von Braun, Wernher
Brown, Harold, 216
Buckley, Edmund C., 36
budget, NACA, 10
budget, NASA, 60;
formulation, 182-205;
preparation, 185-89;
review, 180-82
budget, operating, NASA, 8
Budget and Accounting Act, 124, 190
Budget Operations, NASA Division of, 144
budgetary cycle, 193-96
budgetary process, 2, 38
Bureau of the Budget, U.S., 4, 7, 14, 60, 67, 85, 86, 87, 107, 107, 109, 113, 114, 124, 127, 130, 136, 138, 141, 161, 179-80, 181, 186, 187, 188, 189, 194, 195, 233, 268;
Director, 14;
Military Division, 14;
Office of Management and Organization, 14
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S., 112, 120
Bureau of Ships, U.S. Navy, 224
Burner 11, 212
Business Administration, NASA Office of, 108
Butler, T. Melvin, 127
Buy American Act, 99

 

C-5A transport plane, 85
Califano,Joseph, 195
California Institute of Technology, 15, 23
Cape Canaveral 19, 21, 22, 24
Centaur, 22, 97 156, 173, 201, 215, 221, 226, 271
center directors, 6, 42, 47
Center Operations, NASA Associate Administrator for, 143
"Central Secretariat," 49
Chaffee, Roger, 24
Charles, Robert H., 77
Cheyenne armed helicopter, 85
Chrysler Corporation, 70
Civil Service Commission, U.S., 53, 75, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 117, 121, 126 127, 130, 131, 132, 133, 268
Civilian-Miiitary Liaison Committee, 218
Classification Act, 111
Codified Policy Reference, 50
coding system, 47, 48
Cold War, 11
Cole, John, 109
Cole report, 109, 110
Collier trophy, 10
Commerce, U.S. Department of, 146
Committee for Economic Development, 109
Communiclations Satellite Act, 15
Communications Satellite Corporation, 215
Comptroller Ceneral, U.S., 73, 100, 112, 124, 125, 126, 180
Computation Laboratory, 129
Congress on Space and Astronautics, 13
Congress, 1, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 23, 24, 81, 85, 95, 99, 110, 111, 115, 123, 124, 125, 127, 129, 141, 148, 161, 173, 187, 198, 199, 200, 201, 209, 269;
Armed Services Committee, 12;
Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, 12, 13, 18
"Considerations in the Management of Manpower in NASA," 127
consultants, 2
contract administration, 2, 75, 76, 77, 79-80, 121
contract management, 4
contract policy, 2, 3, 4, 18, 29, 75, 78, 87, 93, 101, 124
"Contracting for Nonpersonal Services," 123
contracting officer, 72, 74
contracting philosophy, 65-68
contractors, 72-75;
prime, 4, 18, 76, 103
contracts, 23, 45, 68-71, 148, 150, 161, 162, 175;
cost-plus-award-fee, 101;
cost-plus-fixed-fee, 5, 74, 77, 78-79, 100;
fixed price, 76, 77;
incentive, 4, 5, 76, 77, 268;
negotiations, 73, 74;
prime, 19, 94;
research and development, 33, 72, 74, 76, 94, 100-05;
selection criteria, 72;
sole source, 72, 104
contracts, mission support, 123;
Bellcomm, Inc., 88, 124;
Boeing Technical Integration and Evaluation, 88, 90, 91, 92, 124, 268;
General Electric Company, 88, 90, 92, 97;
processing, 98
contracts, support service, 54, 87, 91, 92, 93, 104, 107, 123-26, 129-31, 133, 161;
engineering, 88, 92
Control Data Corporation, 67
Convair, 11, 95
Cooper, Cordon, 22
Copeland Anti-Kickback Act, 100
Cortright, Edgar, 53, 139, 248, 271
cost estimates, 74; 154-58
Court of Appeals, U.S., 131
cowling, NACA, 10
Critical Reports and Correspondence Review System, 50
"cross-servicing," 143
Curtin, Robert, 228

 

Data Relay Satellite, 229
Debus, Kurt, 45
decentralization, 1
Deep Space Network (DSN), 84, 162, 163, 220, 224
Defense, U.S. Department of, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 49, 69, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 107, 112, 118, 121, 146, 149, 190, 211, 230, 244;
Secretary of, 11, 13, 18
Defense Affairs, NASA Office of, 42, 138, 149, 219
Defense Communications Agency, 216
Defense Contract Administration Service, 79, 80
Defense Contract Audit Agency, 79
Defense Mobilization, Office of, 12
Defense Supply Agency, 79, 211, 223
DeFrance, Smith, 40
Delta launch vehicles, 74, 97, 156, 226
Deputy Administrator, NASA, 6, 7, 15
detailee system, 122
Directorate of Defense Research and Engineering, 214
Directorate of Space Medicine, 246
DOD-NASA coordination, 15, 149;
agreement, 23, 149;
reimbursement arrangements, 221-25;
relations, 146, 212-14, 217-30
Domestic Council, 196
Doolittle,James, 11, 14
Dorman, Bernhardt L., 54
Douglas Aircraft Company, 19
draft presidential memorandums, 193
Dryden, Hugh L., 6, 7, 11, 14, 15, 19, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 39, 42, 47, 49, 50, 61, 73, 111, 113, 115, 164, 172, 186, 233, 242, 248, 270, 307
DuBridge, Lee, 260
Dyna-Soar, 98, 149, 219, 231, 232

 

Early Bird, 78
Eastern Test Range, 45, 123, 124, 130, 213, 218, 219, 221, 222, 223, 224, 228, 229
Eastman-Kodak Company, 98
Edwards Air Force Base, 10
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 122, 137, 181
Electronics Research Center, 24, 25, 77, 109, 114, 132, 134, 187, 198,261,267, 268
Elms, James, 175
engine development, 5
engineering support, 124
Enthoven, Alain C., 190
equal employment opportunity (EEO), 99, 120, 121
Equal Employment Opportunity, NASA Office of, 121
"Evaluation of Personnel Management," 126, 131
Evins, Joe, 199
Executive Office of the President, 12, 18
Executive Order 11246, 120
executive secretariat, NASA, 47, 49, 50, 52, 53, 55, 64
Explorer 1, 13

 

F-1 engine, 3, 15, 73, 80, 126, 225
facilities coordination, 35
Facilities Management Office, 144, 160
Fair Labor Standards Act, 99
feasibility studies, 4
Federal Aviation Agency, 23
Federal contract research centers, 66, 67
Federal Council for Science and Technology, 12, 118, 181
Federal Executive Salary Act, 113, 114
Federal research and develoment spending, 202-05
Federal Salary Reform Act, 76
Finan, William, 14
Financial Management Division, 154
financial management systems, review of, 126
Finger, Harold B., 7, 54, 55, 57, 60, 63, 86, 87, 88, 91, 98, 130, 133, 160, 164, 254, 271, 307
Five-Year Defense Plan, 190
Fleming, William, 142, 144, 145, 146, 148, 151, 153, 228
flight readiness review, 90
Flight Research Center, 198, 209, 256
fluid mechanics laboratory, 145-46
Foster, Willis, 246
Frutkin, Arnold, 256, 257
"functional management," 43, 60, 63, 64, 108
"functional review process," 55
Future Programs Task Group, 208, 241, 242-47, 261

 

Gargarin, Yuri, 17
Gemini, 3, 19, 22, 53, 67, 74, 78, 97, 121, 124, 141, 157, 172, 207, 212, 218, 219, 229, 230-35, 270
Gemini Program Planning Board, 218
General Accounting Office, U.S., 54, 57, 86, 87, 107, 109, 123-26, 127, 129, 182, 190, 228
General Dynamics, Convair Division, 95, 97
General Electric Company, 20, 74, 88, 89
general manager, NASA, 50
General Services Administration, 48, 67, 72
Gilpatric, Roswell, 18, 93, 148, 215, 218, 244, 270
Gilruth, Robert, 16, 91, 175, 248, 307
Glenn, John, 22, 122
Glennan, T. Keith, 4, 15, 16, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 38, 39, 62, 63, 72, 73, 98, 109, 113, 126, 153, 200, 308
Goddard Space Flight Center, 16, 41, 45, 71, 87, 109, 123, 126, 129, 130, 145, 169, 171, 172, 265
Goett, Harry J., 41, 172
Gordon, Kermit, 124, 127, 234
Gorman, Harry, 127, 132
Gray, Edward Z., 175, 245, 246
Great Society, 115
Grissom, Virgil, 24
group management, 61
Grumman Company, 21, 25, 80, 97

 

Headquarters, NASA, 23, 27, 28, 29, 34, 36, 61;
Administration Office, 55;
Personnel Division, 109;
Procurement Branch, 73;
Space and Missile Systems Organization, 218
Hess, Harry, 252
High Energy Astronomical Observatory, 177, 270
High Speed Flight Research Station, 10
Hilburn, Earl D., 53, 81, 84, 94, 109
Hilburn Task Force, 80-84, 157
Hitch, Charles J., 190
Hjornevik, Wesley, 127
Hjornevik task force, 127, 128, 129, 131, 264, 265
Hodgson, Alfred, 34
Holmes, D. Brainerd, 19, 20, 21, 23, 36, 38, 41, 43, 64, 173, 308
Homer, Richard, 30, 34
Hornig, Donald, 181, 234
Houbolt, John, 20
House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 125
House Government Operations Committee, 92, 235, 254
House Science and Astronautics Committee, 23, 73, 174, 197, 198, 209
Hughes Aircraft Company, 215
Humphreys, Maj. Gen.James W.,Jr., 122
Hunsaker, Jerome, 111
Huntsville Arsenal, 69, 70, 136
hydrogen, liquid, 95
hypersonic booster-glider, 11
hypersonic flight, 11
hypersonic rocket plane, X-15, 11

 

IBM Corporation, 67, 92
Industrial Operations Division, NASA, 175
Industry Affairs, NASA Office of, 5, 42, 54, 73, 108, 138, 144
Initial Defense Communications Satellite System, 216
Inspections Division, NASA, 55
Installations and Logistics, DOD Office of, 73
Institute for Defense Analyses, 66
Institutional Working Group, 263
instrumentation support, 123
International Geophysical Year, 11
issuance system, 47, 48

 

J-2 engine, 3, 78, 80, 141, 225
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 15, 16, 23, 31, 41, 45, 66, 81, 118, 147, 163, 169, 172, 201, 220, 230, 264, 270, 271, 272
Johnson, Lyndon B., 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 120, 127, 181, 185, 189, 191, 195, 199, 204, 207, 208, 231, 233, 234, 235, 243, 257
Johnson Space Center, 19, 45, 87
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 54
Jupiter rocket, 11, 13

 

Keller, Samuel, 127
Kennedy, John F., 1, 3, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 34, 107, 112, 127, 137, 181, 189, 202, 219, 225, 227, 267
Kennedy Space Center (KSC), 22, 45, 87, 123, 129, 130, 173, 175, 220, 221, 228, 229, 264, 270
Killian, James, Jr., 12, 137
Kimpton, Lawrence, 33
Kimpton committee (Advisory Committee on Organization), 29, 33
Kimpton report, 34, 49, 77

 

Labor, U.S. Department of, 121
Lacklen, Robert J., 108
Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, 9, 16
Langley Research Center, 23, 41, 123, 132, 136, 213, 240, 265, 271
Large Launch Vehicle Planning Group, 225, 226
large solid motor program, 208, 227
Large Space Telescope, 165
Launch Operations Center, 45, 175, 220
launch schedule, 45
launch support, 2, 123
launch vehicle development, 5
launch vehicle planning, 225-28
Launch Vehicle Programs, NASA Office of, 5, 33, 36
launch vehicles, manned, 1, 5, 121
Legislative Affairs and Public Affairs, NASA Office of, 50
Lesher, Richard, 54
Lewis, Geoge W., 10
Lewis Research Center, 10, 22, 123, 132, 134, 137, 145, 147, 173, 254, 271, 272
Life Sciences Directorate, 164
Life Sciences Programs, NASA Office of, 36
Lilly, William E., 54, 193
Limited Warfare Committee, 230
Low, George M., 18, 60, 271
Lunar and Planetary Missions Board, 201, 249, 250, 252, 270, 271
lunar excuration module, 21
lunar landing, 16, 25, 80, 173;
decision, 17-21, 36;
manned, 1, 2, 5, 73;
mission, 1, 85;
program, 23
lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR), 20-21
Lunar Orbiter, 4, 22, 23, 98, 103, 156, 251, 271
Lunar Receiving Laboratory, 176, 197, 272

 

M-1 engine, 188
McDonnell-Douglass Corporation, 74, 78, 80, 95, 97, 98, 112, 235
McElroy, Neil, 13, 214
McKinsey and Company, 29
McKinsey report, 49
McNamara, Robert, 18, 75, 76, 99, 149, 190, 193, 217, 218, 219, 221, 222, 223, 229, 230, 231, 232, 234
Macy,John W., 114, 115
Maggin, Bernard, 142
Magnuson, Warren, 199
maintenance services, 124
Man In Space Sonnest project, 219
Management Advisory Panel, NASA, 59, 6O
Management Analysis, Division of, NASA, 48
Management and Budget, U.S. Office of, 180
Management Committee, NASA, 45, 46, 48, 109, 138, 187
Management Council, NASA, 48, 59, 132, 248, 257
magement Development, NASA Office of, 48, 57, 132
Management documentation, 48
magement instructions, NASA, 47, 109
magement Manual, NASA, 31, 47, 48
Management reporting, 35
Management reviews, 50
Managers, general, 45
Manhattan Project, 69
Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), 149, 229, 230-35, 244, 248, 253, 254
Manned Space Flight Centers, Deputy Associate Administrator for, 43
Manned Space Flight Experiments Board, 246
Manned Space Flight (MSF), NASA Office of, 5, 6, 7, 8, 19, 36, 43, 52, 64, 88, 89, 90, 101, 102, 118, 123, 146, 144, 147, 148, 150, 151, 166, 169, 172-76, 245, 246, 247, 261, 263;
Management Council, 6, 20, 46, 91, 101, 174
Manned Space Flight Network, 220
Manned Space Flight program, 5, 6, 103
Manned Space Flight Science and Technology Advisory Committee, 249, 252
Manned Space Flight Subcommittee, 196
Manned Space Sciences Division, 246
Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), 19, 33, 89, 91, 115, 132, 137, 148, 157, 175, 240, 267, 272
Manpower policy, NASA, 108-10, 138
manpower requirements, NASA, 118, 120
manpower restrictions, 124
Mansfield Amendment, 204
Mariner, 198
Maritime Reserve, 224
Mars mission, 25
Marshall Space Flight Center, 4, 16, 20, 22, 33, 45, 70, 87, 112, 115, 123, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 134, 136, 137, 147 173, 197, 228, 240, 248, 254, 264, 265, 272
Martin Company, 24, 219, 254
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratory, 19
Mathews, Charles, 259
Mead, Merrill, 127
Mercury, Project, 16, 17, 22, 219
Mercury, spacecraft, 66, 74, 95, 121, 172, 229
Merritt Island Launch Area, 218
Midas, 214
Miller, George P., 23, 199
Minneapolis-Honeywell, 67
Minuteman, 98, 227
mission, NASA, 53
Mission Analysis Division, 164, 165, 257
Mission Boards, 168
Mission Control Center, 92
Mission Operations Director, 220
Mississippi Test Facility, 89, 209
Moffet Field, California, 10
monthly status review,15, 46, 50, 57, 59
Moritz, Bernard, 132
Mueller, George E., 6, 23, 43, 50, 53, 60, 80, 92 101, 110, 134, 157, 172, 173, 174, 175, 208, 233, 243,245, 246, 248, 251, 257, 258, 259, 260, 264, 272, 308
Murray, Bruce, 250
Myers, Dale D., 60
 
NASA-Atomic Energy Commission Nuclear Propulsion Office, 7, 16, 54
"NASA Basic Administrative Processess," 48
NASA-DOD coordination, 15, 149;
agreement, 23, 149;
reimbursement arrangements, 221-25;
relations, 146, 212-14, 217-30
NASA-DOD Facilities Review, 145
NASA-DOT Civilian Aviation Research and Development Policy Study, 166-67
NASA Management Committee, See Management Committee, NASA
National Academy of Sciences, 34, 118, 146, 167, 252
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 36, 111;
budget, 10;
Chairman, 11;
director, 11
National Aeronautics and Space Council, 15
National Environment Policy Act, 100
National Multipurpose Space Station, 235
National Science Foundation, 75, 146, 205
National Space Science Data Center, 146
Naugle, John E., 167
Naval Research Laboratory, 11, 15, 16, 33, 70, 128, 169
Navy, 11, 80
Navy Military Sea Transportation Service, 224
NERVA, 25, 188, 207, 243
Newell, Homer E., 36, 41, 43, 57, 59, 60, 161, 167, 168, 169, 200, 246, 217, 248, 249, 250, 251, 256, 257, 259, 262, 263, 309
Nimbus, 17, 80, 95, 125, 154, 171, 216
Nixon, Richard M., 181, 195, 196, 204, 257, 258, 260, 261
North American Aviation, 7, 15, 19, 24, 54, 73, 78, 79, 80, 90, 95, 97, 125, 209;
Rocketdyne Division, 19, 73;
Space Division, 25
Notus, 214
NOVA, 20, 21, 226
nuclear propulsion, 11

 

O'Connor, Brig. Gen. Edmund, 122
Operations Support Requirements Office, 220
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO), 95, 97, 125, 154, 167, 168
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, 154
Orbiting Observatories, 17, 80, 85, 171, 271
Orbiting Solar Observatories, 265
Organization and Management, NASA Office of, 7, 48, 55, 57, 59, 60, 64, 121, 126, 130, 160, 254
organization procedures, 62-64

 

P-51 Mustang, 10
Paine, Thomas O., 25, 39, 60, 137, 161, 256, 258, 259, 260, 309
Pan American World Airways, 123, 224, 225
payloads, 1
Pellerzi, Leo, 129, 130
Pentagon Office of Systems Analysis, 191
Personnel, NASA, Director of, 108, 121
personnel, NASA in-house, 115-23, 126
Personnel Division, NASA, 108
personnel management, 54, 109, 126-39
Personnel Management Review Committee, 132-33, 139
personnel policy, 138. See ako manpower policy, NASA
PERT/COST system, 156, 273. See also program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
Philco, 92
Phillips, Brig. Gen. Samuel, 24, 122, 174, 309
Phillips report, 25, 125, 209
Pioneer, 271
Planetary Missions Board, 251
planning, NASA 152-54;
adequacy, 261-66;
intermediate-range, 142, 176;
launch vehicle, 225-28;
long-range, 2, 30, 46, 57, 59, 60, 62, 209, 256;
origins, 239-42;
policy, 52;
short-range, 2, 45
planning, Office of Advanced Research and Technology, 165
planning, post-Apollo, 149
Planning Coordination Steering Group (PCSG), 60, 194, 208, 247, 256, 257, 261
planning-programming-budgeting system (PPBS), 189-93, 194
Planning Review Committee, 260
Planning Review Panel, NASA, 46, 144, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152
Planning Source Documents, 256
Planning Steering Group (PSG), 256, 257, 260, 261, 263
Plans and Program Evaluation, NASA Office of, 33, 38, 46, 241
Plum Brook Station, 123
Polaris, 11, 156, 221, 269
Policy, NASA Office of, 60
policy planning, 59
Policy Planning Board, NASA, 46, 241
positions: excepted, 110-15, 138, 187, 268;
nonquota, 113-15, 127;
supergrade, 110-15, 138
Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company, 97
Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, 12, 13, 18
President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, 95
President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), 12, 14, 17, 21, 149, 181, 255, 233, 234, 252, 253, 262, 270;
Space Vehicle Panel, 20
President's Space Task Croup, 28, 251, 272;
report of, 257-61
principal investigators, 2
Procurement, NASA Office of, 101, 103, 121
procurement, negotiated, 66, 67
procurement, sole source, 79
Procurement and Supply Division, NASA, 42
Procurement Division, NASA, 73
procurement plan, 67, 73, 74
procurement policy, 4, 45, 64, 73
procurement process, 68, 84-86
procurement request, 72
program and financial plan, 193
Program and Resources Division, 165
program authorization, 31, 45, 47
program budgeting and funding, 36, 76
program categories, 205-07
program directors, 38, 41, 42, 43, 53, 60, 64
program evaluation and review techniques (PERT), 85, 156, 157
Program Facilities Standards Division, NASA Office of, 144
program managers, 2
program memoranda, 60
program offices, NASA, 5, 6, 7, 36, 42, 45, 50, 52, 57, 60
program operating plan, 153, 186
program planning, 99, 144, 177
Program Plans and Analysis, Assistant Administrator for, 54;
NASA Office of, 55, 57, 60, 193, 194
program review, 46, 57, 144-47
Program Review, NASA Division of, 144
Program Review and Resources Management Croup, 169
Program Review and Resources Management Office, 171
program status reports, 157
Programming, NASA Office of, 45, 81, 142, 147, 157, 186
programming, research and development, 161-76
Programs, NASA Office of, 38
Project 39 review, 217
Project 60, 79
project approval document (PAD), 8, 50, 55, 57, 63, 145, 150, 152, 153, 160, 161, 166, 254
project assignment, 61
project authorization, 63
project management, 43
project managers, 6
project planning, 5, 65;
phased, 4, 7, 55, 60, 63, 80-84, 100, 104, 152, 157, 158-61
project review, 35
proposals, contractor, 4, 72;
review, 63;
request for, 67
Proxmire, William, 201
Public Affairs, NASA Office of, 42
Public Law 80-313, 110, 112

 

Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, 72
Ramsey, Norman, 250, 270
RAND Corporation, 11, 12, 66, 69, 91
Ranger, 16, 18, 22, 23, 80, 95, 172, 198, 201, 207
RCA Corporation, 98
Redstone Arsenal, 11, 16, 212
reductions in force, 126, 128, 131, 134, 136, 137, 209, 254
Relay, 156
reorganization, NASA, 6
Reorganization Act, 190
request for proposal, 67, 72, 75, 77, 100
research and development, 2, 76;
contracts, 33, 68. (See also contracts, research and development);
project planning, 152-54
Research and Development Operations, 175
research and development programming, 161-76
resource allocation, 63-64
Resources Analysis, NASA Division of, 144, 194
resources management, 54
resources programming, 35
review system, 59
reviews, NASA in-house, 57;
annual, 59, 62, 64;
general management, 59;
monthly status, 45, 46, 50, 57, 59, 64;
program, 46, 57 (See also program review);
program office, 59;
project status, 59;
proposal, 63

 

RL-10 engine, 97
Roberts, Edward B., 100
rocket propulsion, 11
Rocketdyne Corporation, 73, 80, 126
Rockwell-Standard Corporation, 97
"Round Three" Steering Committee, NACA, 11
Rover, 95

 

S-II, 125
salaries, civil service, 111-13
Salary Reform Act, 112
Samos, 214
SARP charts, 157
Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Network, 220
Saturn, 3, 95, 98, 212, 221, 226, 244, 247, 259;
project, 16, 20, 21;
vehicles, 6
Saturn I, 21, 213
Saturn IB, 21, 24, 70, 98, 174, 221, 227, 228, 249, 254
Saturn V, 6, 19, 24, 25, 53, 70, 78, 79, 80, 91, 147, 173, 174, 207, 227
Saturn/Apollo Applications Office, 245
schedule slippage, 82-84
Schriever, Gen. Bernard A., 69, 217
Schultze, Charles L., 192, 195, 223, 248
Science Advisory Committee, 12, 169
Science and Astronautics Subcommittee, 200
Science and Technology, Office of, 181
Science and Technology Advisory Committee, 257
Scout, 227
Seamans, Robert C., Jr., 6, 7, 19, 24, 25, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 73, 77, 79, 80, 81, 84, 89, 109, 110, 115, 127, 138, 139, 145, 146, 148, 150, 152, 153, 157, 158, 163, 172, 177, 184, 186, 187, 188, 201, 230, 233, 242, 247, 248, 256, 258, 260, 310
Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, 184, 197, 198, 208, 243, 255
Shapley, Willis H., 14, 52, 53, 57, 310
Shepard, Alan, 22
Siepert, Albert, 34, 108
Silverstein, Abe, 16, 35, 36, 41, 142, 164, 310
Skybolt missile, 85, 232
Skylab, 97, 221, 226, 245, 251
Small Business Administration, 95, 99
Small Scientific Satellite, 171
Smith, Francis B., 54, 243
Smith, Margaret Chase, 199
SNAP-8, 188
Sohier, Walter, 77
source evaluation board (SEB), 61, 67, 72, 73, 79, 95, 97, 167
source evaluation procedures, 3, 77, 79;
manual 3, 65
source selection documents, 72, 73
source selection procedure, 72, 93-100
Soviet Union, 12
Space Act, 3, 14, 15, 18, 29, 53, 76, 111, 112, 131, 211, 214, 230, 240
space applications, 2
space capability, 2
Space Council, 17, 18, 150
Space Exploration Program Council, 31
Space Flight Operations Facility, 220
Space Flight Programs, NASA Office of, 16, 35, 36
space medicine, 228, 229
space program, 1, 2, 6, 11;
management, 23
Space Science and Applications, NASA Office of, 43, 46, 52, 64, 126, 139, 144, 146, 147, 148, 151, 165, 167-72, 246, 247, 261, 264
Space Science and Applications Steering Committee (SSASC), 167, 249
Space Science Board, 167, 168, 250, 252, 253, 262, 271
Space Sciences, NASA Office of, 36, 41, 45
space shuttle, 91, 126, 255
Space Station Study Office, 240
Space Task Croup, NASA, 16, 18, 19, 33, 89, 91, 128, 199, 260, 261, 262,
Space Tracking and Data Network, 220
Spacecraft Instrumentation Evaluation Facility, 228
Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, 12
Special Contracts Negotiation and Review, NASA Office of, 54
Special Procurement Study, 77
sputnik, 12, 13
Staats, Elmer, 125, 127
staff, in-house, 4, 5;
civil service, 86-93
Stans, Maurice, 14
State Department, U.S., 49 , 109
Stoller, Morton J., 36
support services, 86, 87
supporting research and technology (SRT), 165
Supreme Court, U.S., 131
Surveyor, 17, 18, 22, 23, 80, 95, 125, 126, 141, 187, 198, 207, 212, 226, 251, 254
Syncom, 17, 85, 156, 212, 214-17, 229
Synthesis Croup, 259
Systems Analysis, Office of, 190
systems engineering, 90, 91
systems integration, 90

 

Taylor, William, 245
Teague, Olin, 197
technology transfer, 42-43
Technology Utilization, NASA Office of, 54
Technology Utilization Division, NASA, 42
telemetry, 36
Ten-Year Plan, 33, 38, 46, 47
Thomas, Albert, 199
Thompson, Floyd, 256, 258
Thor, 11, 70, 212, 219
Tiros Operational Satellite, 17, 24, 214, 216
Titan, 11, 69, 212, 215, 219, 221, 226, 227, 232, 244, 254
Titan III-Centaur, 254, 255
Townes, Charles, 250, 252, 258, 262
Townsend, John, 132
Tracking and Data Acquisition, NASA Office of, 5, 36, 50, 67, 143, 144, 161-63, 220
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, 162, 182
Transit, 214
Transportation, U.S. Department of, 143
Trans-World Airlines, 123, 130
TRW Inc., 92, 97, 218

 

University Affairs, NASA Office of, 54, 264
Urey, Harold, 250
 
 
van Allen, James, 251
Vanguard, 11, 12, 13, 15, 107
Vecchietti, George J., 73
Viking sounding rocket, 11, 85, 177, 251
von Braun, Wernher, 4, 11, 13, 16, 40, 66, 70, 136, 176, 212, 245, 260, 270, 310
von Neumann, John, 11
Voyager, 25, 53, 85, 114, 134, 147, 148, 173, 184, 194, 226, 251, 254

 

Wallops Station, 169
Weather Bureau, U.S., 24, 216
Webb, James E., 4, 6, 7, 8, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 28, 34, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, 88, 90, 94, 101, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 124, 127, 131, 132, 133, 136, 137, 138, 139, 142, 148, 149, 153, 158, 160, 161, 168, 172, 173, 177, 186, 188, 189, 192, 193, 195, 200, 208, 215, 218, 219, 221, 225, 227, 231, 233, 234, 241, 242, 243, 244, 248, 250, 251, 252, 254, 256, 262, 267, 268, 270, 311
Webster, Crove, 108, 132, 133
Weisner, Jerome, 17, 20, 75, 137
Welsh, Edward, 18
Western Operations Office, 15
Western Support Office, 15
Western Test Range, 213, 219
White, Edward, 24
White House, 12
White Sands, New Mexico, 11
wind tunnels, NACA, 10
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 252
work force, NASA, 115-23
Work Hours Standard Act, 100
Wyatt, DeMarquis, 35, 54, 60, 142, 145, 148, 157, 160, 186, 193, 194, 256, 257, 258, 311

 

X-15, 213, 255
XB-70, 229

 

York, Herbert, 14
Young, Jack, 34, 48, 49, 109, 194
 
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