[368] Abbott, Ira H., 66,83,98, 99, 103,132, 134, 159, 228, 230

Abernathy, Bob, 137, 140

Able (monkey), 20

Abshire, David, 117

Adams, Don, Eleanor and family, 122, 275, 306

Adams, John G., 6

Adams, Sherman, 6, 23

Adenauer, Chancellor Konrad, 95

Adult Education Association of the United States, 274-275

Advanced Research Projects Agency (see under DOD)

Advertising Club, 125

Advertising Council, 95

Aerojet General Corp., 149, 158, 185, 200, 201

Aeronautics and Astronautics Coordinating Board, 142, 170n, 231, 265

Aerospace Corporation, 218, 230

Aerospace Medical Association, 102

Ahmadu, Alhaji Sir, 183

Aldrin, Edwin E., Jr., 255n

Alger, Bruce, 105

Alfalfa Club, 53

Allen, George V., 205

Allen, Katherine, 257

Allott, Sen. Gordon L., 162, 172

"American Forum of the Air," 60, 91

American Rocket Society, 107

American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T; see also Kappel, Frederick), 173, 194, 203, 207, 232, 234, 245, 247, 254, 256, 271, 281, 285, 290, 301, 303

Ames, Milton B., Jr., 232

Ames Research Center (see under NASA; see also Ames Aeronautical Laboratory under the NACA)

Anderson, Sen. Clinton P., 62, 65-66, 73, 129, 172, 221, 231, 240, 301

and Harold Finger,116-117,122,229, 231

and Lewis Strauss, 114, 117, 186, 229

likened to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, 229

Anderson, Robert B., 16, 37, 43, 44, 218, 233

Anfuso, Victor L., 130, 264

Armed Forces-National Research Council Bioastronautics Committee, 106108

Armstrong, Neil A., 255n

Army Ballistic Missile Agency (see under DOD)

ANIP program (see Army-Navy Instrumentation Program under DOD)

Atlas missile and launch vehicle, 13,24, 27, 84-85

Atlas-Able, 241, 256, 257-258

(on the Able, see Thor-Able) Atlas-Mercury, 198

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC; see also McCone, John), 36, 39, 65-66, 73-74, 112, 116-117, 129, 134, 141, 196, 231, 240, 265, 289, 301

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 129, 186n, 207, 301

Atomic Industrial Forum, 149

Atwood, John Leland, 190

Auchincloss, Nina G., 231

Avco Corporation, 58, 76, 110n, 298

 

Bacome, W. Donald, 4, 115

Baker (monkey), 20

Baker, W. O. ("Bill"), 195, 232

Baker, W. W., 136

Barclay, John A., 40

Barrett, Wayne, 283

[369] Bartolini, Julian, 60

Bass, Perkins, 59n, 102

Bass, Ross, 59n

Bechtel Corporation, 210, 213

Bechtel, Stephen D., 213

Beau Elephants, 174

Belcher, Page, 64

Bell, David E., 281

Bell, Robert L., 89, 161, 235, 287

Bell Aircraft Company, 107, 158

Bell Telephone Laboratories (see also Kappel, Frederick), 153-154,159, 173,195, 203, 207, 232, 249, 256, 285, 290, 301

Holmdel Station, 154, 204, 234

Telstar, 301

Bendix Aviation, 230

Benet, Stephen Vincent, 106n

Bennett, R. Adm. Rawson, 51, 65, 103, 125, 208, 244, 264, 289-290, 302

Benson, Sec. of Ag. Ezra Taft, 158

Berkner, Lloyd, 139

Berner, T. Roland, 274

Best, George L., 173, 203, 232, 256, 285, 290

Bikle, Paul F., 83

Billingsley, Henry E., 8

Bissell, Richard, 213

Blaik, Earl Henry ("Red"), 76, 298

Blair, Clay D., Jr., 99, 290

Blakeslee, Alton L., 233

Blumenthal, Fred, 219

Bode, Hendrik W., 43

Boeing Aircraft Company, Inc., 201

Bohemian Grove, 122, 182, 184-187

Bohlen, Charles E. ("Chip"), 152-153

Bolz, Ray, 171

Bonney, Walter T., 53, 72,78, 99, 106,111, 115, 116, 130, 136, 144, 149, 167, 171, 173, 182, 193, 198, 205, 206, 214, 222, 230, 231, 240, 256, 259, 265, 267, 268, 269, 291

Boone, Adm. Walter Frederick, 77

Borchert, Catherine (Kitty) Glennan, 70n, 71,111,163, 222-223, 229, 291, 294, 304-305

Borchert, Frank R., Jr., 70n, 71, 111,163, 222-223, 229, 234, 291, 294, 295, 304-305

Borge, Victor, 211

Botkin, Harold, 203

Bowie, Buck, 199

Bradbury, Norris, 129- 130, 207

Brennan, Justice William J., Jr., 305

Bridges, Sen. Styles,38,39,46,81,149-151, 203

Brinkley, David, 143

Brod, Ruth, 271

Brode, Wallace R., 42

Broglio, Luigi, 106

Bronk, Detlev W., 44-46, 106-108, 254

Bronwell, Arthur, 69

Brookings Institution, 142, 306

Brooks,Overton,46-47,56,91,98,104,110, 149, 151, 172, 306

Brotzen, Franz, 263

Brown, Alex, 156

Brown, Alice, 263

Brown, George, 127, 263-264

Brucker, Wilber M., 10-11, 22, 166, 240, 272, 289

Buckley, Edmond C., 170, 176

Bullock, Hugh, 96

Bundy, William P., 230, 243, 288

Burden, William A. M., 7

Bureau of the Budget (see also Staats, Stans), 73, 143, 176, 195, 196, 210, 244, 252-254, 264, 265

Burgess, Carter L., 96

Burgess, George, 34

Burke, Adm. Arleigh A., 77, 178, 215, 243, 271

Burke, Roberta

on military social life, 243

Burke, Walter, 303

Bush, Vannevar, 127

[370] Butement, W. A. S., 164

 

Cabell, Gen. Charles P., 111, 114

Cadle, Don D., 210, 264n

Calever, Ambrose, 274

Calkins, Robert De Blois, 251, 306

Calvin Bullock Forum, 96

Campbell, Joseph, 59, 61-62, 63, 66

Canaday, Ward, 53, 236, 260, 261

Canadian Defense Research Scientific Board, 236

Cannon, Gen. Joe, 185

Cannon, Sen. Howard W., 63, 67

Canterbury, Maj. Gen. W. Monte, 19

Cape Canaveral (see Missile Firing Laboratory under NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center)

Capitol Hill Club, 102

Carnegie Corporation, 169, 250, 284

Carpenter, M. Scott, 20n, 21

Carson, Paul, 185

Carter, Finley, 83, 253

Case, Sen. Clifford P., 63, 115

Case, Sen. Francis H., 93, 115

Case Institute of Technology, 3, 4,105, 119, 124, 145, 155, 156, 161, 241, 263, 274, 277, 278, 284, 290, 295, 305 (see also Hrones, John and Smith, Kent)

Catledge, Turner, 233

Cavallero, Carmen, 108

Central Intelligence Agency, 60, 112, 113, 171, 213, 241-242

Century Club, 285

Chance Vought Corp., 236

Charyk, Joseph V., 45, 92, 124, 129

Chew, Peter T., 64

Childs, Marquis, 305

Chrysler Corporation,63,115,138- 139, 160

Cisler, Walker L., 50n, 75-76, 300

Civil Service Commission, 65, 275, 276

Civilian-Military Liaison Commitee, 25, 35, 92, 170, 171

Clay, Gilbert Harrison, 250

Clement, George, 232

Cleveland, Harlan, 284

Cleveland, Ohio, 284

Clifford, Clark M., 307

Clow, Arthur Plumb, 298

Coggan, B. F., 181-182

Cohn, Victor E., 233

"College News Conference," 271, 272

Collier's Award, 282

Columbus, Christopher, 227

Colwell, Archie Trescott, 103, 164

Comet, Project (see under NASA)

Commerce, Department 285, 286

communications satellites (see under NASA)

Compton, Arthur Holly, 165

Congdon, Sidney B., 156

Connell, Maurice H., Associates, 88

Conlon, Emerson W., 66

Conte, Silvio, 52

Convair, 125, 129, 181-182, 282

Cooper, L. Gordon, 20n, 21

Corson, John J., 8, 18,57, 92,114, 121, 127, 141, 143, 149, 156, 158, 182, 197, 199, 203, 234, 247, 249, 251

Cortright, Edgar M., 274, 279

Cosmos Club, 42, 169, 180, 242, 268, 306

CounciI on Foreign Relations, 137, 142

Council on Higher Education in the American Republics, 169, 311

Courier satellite (see under DOD)

Crawford, Frederick C., 3, 134, 156, 164, 186-187, 260, 261, 282-283, 291

Creutz, Edward, 35

Croneis, Carey, 263

Crossfield, Albert Scott, 99

Crowley, John W. ("GUS"), 192

Curtice, Harlow H., 82

Cushing, Richard Cardinal, 310

of, 232, 243,

[371] Cutler, Robert, 90

 

Daddario, Emilio Q., 64, 242

Dahl, Odd, 86

Dahl, Vesse, 86

Davey, John, 248-249

Davis, Maj. Gen. Leighton 1. ("Lee"), 262

Day, Melvin S., 222, 274

Dean, Gordon, 136

Debus, Kurt H., 262, 276

De France, Smith J., 266

de Gaulle, Pres. [of France] Charles, 127, 145n, 152-153

de Hoffmann, Frederic, 35

Democratic Science Advisory Committee, 54

Dempsey, James R., 18

Department of Defense (DOD), 2

Advanced Research Projects Agency, 6, 9, 265

Air Force, 19, 282

aerospace plane, 235

Air Research and Development Command (ARDC), 258

Air Force Ballistic Missile Division (ARDC), 218, 253, 257

Andrews Air Force Base, 258, 281

Ballistic Systems Division (AFSC), 250

Bolling Air Force Base, 235, 308

Discoverer program, 204, 206, 209, 212, 220, 255, 258

Edwards Air Force Base, 1-2, 187

Strategic Air Command, 230, 235, 236

study program, 248

Vandenberg Air Force Base, 84-85

Wright Air Development Division, 249

Army Ballistic Missile Agency,9- 10,12, 22-23, 41, 63-64, 70, 88, 104, 192-193

Army-Navy Instrumentation Program (ANIP), 103

coordination with NASA, 17, 124, 126, 130, 142, 194-196, 209, 232, 247, 258, 264, 275, 283, 284, 286, 290, 297, 299, 302 (several of these references to specific services rather than the DOD as a whole; see also Cisler, Walker L. and other DOD officials, especially Douglas, James H., plus Civilian-Military Liaison Committee and Aeronautics and Astronautics Coordinating Board)

Atlantic Missile Range, 257, 262

Courier, 173, 209, 239

Defense Communications Agency, 198

DynaSoar, 22

geodetic satellite, 151

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 9 (for subsequent entries, see under NASA)

internal DOD squabbles,253-254, 287

Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC), 69-70, 134, 215-216

Naval Research Laboratory, 234

transmitter at Stumpneck, Maryland, 234

Naval War College, 248

Nike-X system, 261n

Nike-Zeus missile, 261, 269

Pacific Missile Range, 85

Air Force-Navy rivalry, 85

Pershing missile, 10

Polaris program, 216

radio astronomy antennae, 289

Redstone Arsenal (see also Army Ballistic Missile Agency above under DOD), 214, 225

secretary's conference, 164-165

Safeguard, 261

Sentinel, 261

Detrich, Bill, 309

Detrick, Harry W., 188n

[372] Dibella, Josephine, 309

Dillon, C. Douglas, 152

Dimbleby, Richard, 158

Discoverer (see under DOD)

Disney, Walt, 98

Dixon, T. S., 136

Dixon, Thomas F., 250n

Doan, Leland I., 125

Dodd, Sen. Thomas J., 37, 38, 67, 162

Dollard, Charles, 284

Doolittle, Gen. James H., 7, 133, 185, 218, 238

Douglas, Donald, 130, 255

Douglas, James H., Jr., 8, 44, 74, 92-93, 106, 127, 142, 166, 172, 201, 207, 257, 287, 290, 299

Douglas Aircraft Co.,63,125,129- 131, 255

Dow Chemical Company, 125, 283

Draper, Charles Stark, 133

Draper, William, 225

Dresser Industries, inc., 256, 264

Drummond, Roscoe, 21, 307

Dryden, Hugh L.

mentioned, 3, 4, 8, 9-10, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21, 33, 36, 37,41-43,45,48,51, 52, 60, 61, 63-67 passim, 69, 70, 73-74, 77, 80, 83, 86, 88, 92-94, 98-101, 103, 104, 106, 108, 116-119, 123, 126, 128-129, 132, 134-144, 147, 155, 161, 167-168, 170, 175176, 178-180, 190, 191, 198-204 passim, 207, 209-210, 212-214, 216, 234, 236, 241-242, 248, 256, 260, 266-267, 269, 274, 276, 282-285 passim, 287, 290, 292, 297, 300, 301, 306, 312, 316

hosts lunch, 306

"inimitable fashion," 88

Presidential Citation forDistinguished Federal Service, 87

recommended as NASA administrator, 296

trip to Argentina, 282n

to remain as deputy administrator, 307

DuBridge,LeeA., 11, 186-187

Dulles, Allen W., 44, 111, 137, 155, 213, 220-222

Dunn, Louis G., 129, 255-256

du Pont, E. l., de Nemours & Co., Inc., 244

Dworshak, Sen. Henry C., 71

Eaton, Frederick M., 165

Echo satellite (see under NASA)

Einhorn, Raymond, 256

Eisenhower, Pres. Dwight D., 1, 2, 3-4, 23, 24, 37-38, 43-44, 46-48, 87, 95, 114, 131,179, 265, 271, 307-308, 314

and Apollo program, 245, 292, 297

belief in private enterprise, 291, 292

and conservatism, 157

and cooperation with Russia, 131

and policies toward Cuba and Central America, 272-273

"damned top hat,"

and Discoverer, 206

and duty, 157

and Echo 1, 204

and election of Kennedy, 267, 308

and executive privilege, 55

health, 46-47, 308

on integrity and retirement, 286

and JPL transfer, 12

comments about Kennedy, 286, 310

and dedication of Marshall Space Flight Center, 208, 214-215, 223-227

and naming of Marshall Space Flight Center, 95

on military-industrial complex, 308

and national budget, 157, 267, 297

and National Space Council, 8, 41, 45-46

and 1960 election, 224-225

and Oppenheimer, 186n

[373] and Paris summit, 72n, 152-153 (see also U-2)

and scientific cooperation, 280

and space budget, 60, 314

and State of the Union message, 336-37

temper, 48

and Tiros 1, 110

"too conservative," 308

and transition to new administration 175- 176, 272

and U-2 incident, 145- 147, 152- 152

Ellender, Sen. Allen Joseph, 147

Elston, Wilbur, 233

Emerson, Sam William, 156

Engleman, Chris, 267-268

English, J. M., 260

Engstrom, Howard, 282

Erf, Herb, 156

Explorer 1, 97n, 192

Explorer VIII (see under NASA)

Faget, Maxime A., 70

Farley, Philip J., 35-36, 72

Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), 48, 101, 232, 243, 301

lead agency for supersonic transport, 188-189

Federal Communications Commission, 234

Federal Council for Science and Technology, 101,131,150,158,172,173, 195, 254

Feldman, George J., 55

Finger, Harold B., 65, 103, 116- 117, 136, 141, 184, 207, 229, 231, 244

Finney, John, 114, 115-116, 194, 231, 303

Finney, Nathaniel S., 240

Fiorio, Consul General (of San Marino), 106

Fisk, James B.,153, 249, 256, 285, 290, 291, 301

Fisher, Jack, 284

Fleming, Robert V., 69

Flemming, Sec. of HEW Arthur S., 195,198

Floberg, John F., 65, 134

Floete, Franklin, 166

Ford, Gerald R., 306

Ford Foundation, 284

Ford Motor Co., 225

Aeronutronic Division, 113, 128n,130, 202

Foreign Policy Association, 127

Forrest, T. Carr, 160

Freeman, Jim, 249

Frutkin, Arnold W., 63, 85, 100, 103,104, 107, 137, 141, 148, 167, 171, 172, 176, 183, 197, 203, 236, 267, 268, 273, 274, 278, 280, 281, 283

Fulbright, Sen. J. William, 61

Fulton, James G., 57, 59, 306

Funston, Keith, 261

Furnas, Clifford C., 89

Gagarin, Yuri, 239, 315n

Gardner, John, 284

Gardner, Trevor, 280

Gates, Sec. Def. Thomas S., Jr., 22, 33-34, 74, 76, 165, 166, 206, 292

General Accounting Office, 143, 256

General Aniline and Film Corporation,

Ansco Division, 242

General Dynamics Corporation, 35, 297, 300

General Electric Company, 110n,190n, 209-210

geodetic satellite (see under NASA, DOD)

Gibson, Raymond A., 242

Gilels, Emil, 47

Gilruth, Robert R., 13, 20n, 214

Gitlin, Irving, 182

Gleason, James P.,17, 22, 36, 39, 45, 48, 51,52, 61, 92, 98,101, 107, 118, 124, [374] 126, 128, 132, 138-139, 143, 149, 151, 154, 171, 174, 198, 203-205, 208, 214, 229, 231, 267, 279, 306

Glenn, John H., Jr., 20n, 21, 198

Glennan, Cora (sister-in-law), 187,208, 217-218

Glennan, Gordon (brother), 187, 208, 217-218, 294

Glennan, Margart L. (mother), 163, 187, 293, 294

Glennan, Martha (daughter-in-law), 81, 84, 86, 187, 217, 266, 293, 294

Glennan, Pauline (folly), 3, 49, 50, 55, 57, 70, 105, 111, 121, 139- 141, 167, 204-206, 222, 223, 229, 230, 258259, 268, 275, 277, 291, 293, 294

Glennan, Ruth, 3, 4, 34, 45, 46, 48, 50, 55, 57, 65, 68, 69, 70, 76, 81-82, 84, 86, 89, 93, 96, 104, 108, 115, 118119, 121, 124, 126, 133, 134, 139-140,143-145,147-148,155,156,158-159, 161-164, 167, 169, 177, 180, 186, 188, 193, 195, 199, 204-206, 208-209,211,215-216, 222, 223, 227, 229, 230, 231-235, 236, 237, 238, 241, 243, 246, 249, 257, 267, 268, 271, 272, 277, 281, 282, 285, 287, 289, 290, 291, 293, 294, 299, 305-308, 311

speech, 308

Glennan, Sarah (Sally), 3, 70-71, 98, 101, 104-106, 108, 111, 115, 133, 134, 139-141, 163, 167, 177, 204-206, 208, 209, 222, 241, 243, 275, 277, 291, 293, 294, 305-307

Glennan, T. Keith

on academics, 90

on Apollo, 297

on atomic weapons and civil defense, 212

and business advisory council of the Department of Commerce, 285, 286

on CIA, 171

and contracting out, 108n, 120

on democracy, 34, 59, 177

dental work,47,50,52,55,61,64,71, 80, 236

on engineers, 51, 237

on Eau Claire and his youth, 162- 163

on executive directors of congressional

committees, 122

and executive privilege, 52-53, 55, 57-62 passim, 66, 96

on flight testing versus ground testing, 166

on government and use of advisory

committees, 156

and government-industry relations,107

health, 87-91 passim, 245, 247, 251

honorary degrees, 156, 159, 164

on Ike as "too conservative," 308

on integrity, 302, 307, 309

job offers to,242,250,273,286,297-298, 299

on Kennedy's slowness to appoint a

successor,282,286,296,300,301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 309, 310

as lame duck, 306

letter from Eisenhower, 229

letter to Eisenhower, 24-29

management practices, 32, 35, 66, 69, 78,92-93,120-121, 149, 154,169, 190, 195, 286, 302-303

membership on Naval Research Advisory Committee, 134, 215

meals at Mory's, 140, 242

and bust of George C. Marshall for dedication of MSFC, 207 (for his involvement with the dedication itself and its preparations, see under NASA, MSFC)

on military people, 281

naming of Marshall Space Flight Center, 95

on Nigerians in Virginia, 181, 183

[375] on non-profit institutions, 218

opinions about individuals (see names of individuals)

and on-site contractors, 282

on pay for civil servants, 178, 194, 200

policies, 5-6, 41, 83-84, 108n, 118, 147, 150, 195, 300

on private enterprise, 292

and public information function, 53-54, 72, 78, 99, 103, 106, 113-114, 116, 117, 136, 144,249,265

public nature of office, 184- 185, 256

on radioactive hazards of Rover, 244

and Republican National Committee, 56

report on NASA activities, 295

resignation, 291, 295

robbery of, 199

satisfactions in job, 289

on scientists, 88, 139, 180, 269

on security types, 161

source selection, 52, 56n, 58, 118, 129-130, 137, 144, 149-150, 241, 309

"space cadet activities," 160, 181

space program, beliefs about, 67

speeches, 35, 48, 56, 68-69, 90, 93, 96, 104, 106-107, 113, 123, 127, 142, 146, 148, 154-155, 160-161, 173, 186, 187, 218, 233, 235, 236, 237, 242, 243, 244-245, 246, 263, 266-268, 271, 284-285, 286, 288, 289, 304, 308-309

stamp commemorating Echo,210,212

State of the Union address, work on, 33

swearing-in as NASA administrator, 3

transition to next administration, 247, 272, 274, 282, 296, 300, 307

on television shows, 272

White House phone, 298

wonderment at Echo 1, 209, 223

on youths and their interests, 93

Glennan, Thomas K., Jr. (son), 70, 8182, 84, 86, 187-188, 217-218, 222, 227, 266, 293-294, 295

Glennan, Thomas Keith III (grandson), 222, 227, 265-266, 293-295

Goddard, Esther C., 172

Goddard, Frank E., Jr., 54

Goddard Space Flight Center (see under NASA)

Goett, Harry J., 36, 82-83, 123, 170, 183, 205, 285

Goldwater, Sen. Barry M., 117

Golovin, Nicholas E., 45, 66, 85, 87, 88, 89,98, 126, 149, 173, 180, 182, 192, 196, 208

as "bull in a china shop," 166

Goodheart, Ed, 150

Goodman, Clark D., 242

Goodman, Mary Ellen, 242

Goodpaster, Gen. Andrew Jackson, 37, 44, 60, 131-132, 222, 278, 289

Goodwin, Hal (Harold), 99, 113

Gore, Sen. Albert A., 305

Gorman, Paul, 285

Gottfried, Robert, 131

Gough, Melvin N., 78

Gould, Laurence McKinley, 233

Goulding, Phil, 10-11, 21

Granik, Theodore, 91

Gray, Edward Z., 107

Gray, Gordon, 7, 8, 44, 141, 165, 254

Green, Estill, 159

Greenewalt, Crawford H., 29

Gregory, Frank, 272

Gridiron Club, 93

Griffis, LeVan, 263

Grissom, Virgil 1., 20n, 21

Griswold, Alfred Whitney, 242-243

Groussard, Serge, 164

Gromyko, Soviet For. Min. Andrei, 153 Gross, H. R., 128

[376] Gross, Robert E., 89

Grumman Aircraft, 201, 241, 283, 287

Gunderson, Barbara Bates, 241

Haas, Leonard, 163

Hackes, Peter, 115, 144

Hagen, John P., 51, 283

Hagerty, James C., 60, 214, 222, 224, 227

vice president of ABC, 298

Hagy, Ruth (see Brod, Ruth)

Hall, Cay, 268

Hall, Leonard, 74, 205

Ham (chimp), 300n

Hamilton, Helen, 101, 104-105, 305

Hardie, Jim, 182

Harkness, Gladys, 238, 299, 305

Harkness, Richard, 21, 93, 126-127,205, 213, 220, 222, 238, 299, 305

Harlow, Bryce N., 35, 38, 39, 46, 224

Harr, David, 268

Harr, Karl G., Jr., 7, 114, 165, 210

Harris, Julie, 277

Harrison, Bob, 158-159

Hartford Electric Light and Power Company, 242

Hartke, Sen. Vance, 67, 130

Harvard University, 142

Harvey, Don, 79

Hatfield, Gov. Mark, 244

Hayden, Sen. Carl, 71

Hayes Aircraft Company, 160

Hayward, V. Adm. John Tucker, 47, 131-132, 271

Heald, Henry, 261, 262

Hearst, William Randolph, Jr., 233

Heaton, Donald H., 192, 227, 228,230, 292

Henderson, Lawrence J., 251

Heneman, H. J., 89

Henry, Frank, 161

Hermann, Arthur, 125

Herter, Sec. of State Christian A., 72,104, 113, 152, 257-258, 292

Herzig, Henry A., 160, 256

Hickenlooper, Sen. Bourke B.,229,231

Hickson, Daniel C., 96

Higley, Ab, 277-278

Hill, Sen. Lister, 162, 167

Hines, Bill, 238

Hinkley, J. William III, 242

Hinrichs, John H., 10

Hiscock, Dennis Russell, 179n

Hiscocks, E. S., 179, 264

Hjornevik, Wesley L.,8,11,35,64,167, 170, 195, 203, 231, 235, 252, 257

Hodges, Gov. Luther, 282

Hodgson, Alfred S., 98, 114, 123, 136, 149, 212, 215

Hoegh, Gov. Leo (of lowa), 212

Hoffman Electronics, 96

Holaday, William M., 10, 35, 92

Holifield, Chester E., 207

Holland, Sen. Spessard L., 88, 160

Hood, Br. Charg. d'Afrs. Lord, 179

Hoover, George W., 79

Hoover, Pres. Herbert C., 186

Hoover, Herbert, Jr., 186

Hoover, J. Edgar, 279

Horner, Richard E.

mentioned, 18-19,21, 33,36, 39,4143, 45, 48, 51, 52, 60, 61, 63-67 passim, 69, 70, 73, 74, 77-80, 82, 83, 85, 86, 94, 95, 98, 99,101,103, 106, 108, 110-11], 116, 118-119, 123, 125-126, 128-130, 132, 13441, 144, 147, 154, 158, 167, 170, 171-173, 175-178, 180-181, 184, 189, 191, 192, 193, 218, 223, 227, 308

on Army helicopter pilots, 134

Hornig, Donald F., 94, 304

Hotchkiss, Preston, 185

House Science and Astronautics Committee, 315n

Howells, William White, 144

[377] Hrones, John, 3, 65, 86, 89, 104-105, 119, 134, 156, 161, 171, 271-272, 274, 299

Hruska, Sen. Roman Lee, 132

Huffman, Dick, 87, 306

Hughes Aircraft Co., 194, 205, 207, 302n

Huggins, E. V., 283

Hunt, Jack, 126- 127

Huntlands, 127, 177-178, 191

Huntsville, AL (see also Army Ballistic Missile Agency and Marshall Space Flight Center), 104, 214, 227

Hyatt, Abraham, 149, 184, 199, 202, 260, 267, 274, 278, 302

director of program planning and evaluation, 289, 307

Hyland, Pat, 143, 146, 255

Institute for Defense Analysis, 103

International Business Machines Corp., 260, 261, 268

International Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 270

International Telephone and Telegraph Company (IT&T), 194, 301

ion engine (see under NASA)

Irvin, Rear Adm. William D., 198

Isaacs, Norman, 233

Italy, cooperation with, 109-110

Itek Corporation, 184- 185

Jackson, Henry M. ("Scoop"), 121

Jaffe, Leonard, 101, 189n, 200, 203, 204, 237, 256

Jastrow, Robert, 144, 176, 236, 238, 285, 303

Javits, Sen. Jacob K., 107

Jeffers, Lou, 160

Jenkins, Commander, 278-279

Jensen, Ben. F., 62

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL, see under DOD or NASA, depending upon period)

Jodrell Bank Observatory, 98, 109, 178

John Brown 's Body, 106

Johnson, Earl D., 297

Johnson, John A., 8, 33, 41, 45, 48, 52, 61, 63,1 24, 126, 128,137,139,154, 155, 163, 169, 171, 178, 194-195, 197,198-200, 203, 205,209-210,221-222, 229, 231, 234, 236, 268, 275, 281, 283, 285

Johnson, Sen., V.P. and Pres. Lyndon B., 15, 17, 46, 81,110, 122-123,170-171, 198, 201, 201, 202, 203, 204-205, 208, 217, 221, 252, 300, 304, 306, 307-308, 311, 312, 314

chair of Space Council, 296

and decision to speed up Apollo, 315

political maneuvering, 253, 256, 264

support of NASA, 147, 174

Johnson, Pamela Hanst'ord, 287-288

Johnson, Roy W., 10, 106, 240

Johnson Space Center (see NASA, Manned Spacecraft Center)

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE; see also Anderson, Clinton), 207, 221, 229, 231, 240, 244, 301

Jones, Roger W., 65, 76, 241 n

Juno launch vehicle (see under NASA) Jupiter missile and launch vehicle, 13, 27, 262

Kaiser Steel, 112

Kallio, Kalervo, 207

Kamm, Robert W., 85, 218, 223

Kantrowitz, Arthur, 76

Kappel, Frederick Russell, 150, 153, 159, 285, 290

Karsh, Yousuf, 214

Karth, Joseph E., 64

Keating, Sen. Kenneth B., 106

Keese, Courtenay, 247

Keese, Maj. Gen. William B., 247

Keller, Robert F., 56, 62, 63

[378] Kelly, Mervin J., 29, 150, 198

Kendall, David W., 163, 307

Kendricks, Marron, 184, 187

Kennedy, Sen. and Pres. John F., 14, 32, 217, 243, 250-251, 259, 264-266, 304, 307-308, 311, 314, 316

Bay of Pigs incursion, 314 inauguration, 310

presidential appointments, 281-282

speculation about his appointments, 272, 286, 289, 297

Kerr, Clark, 169

Kerr, Sen. Robert S., 312

Kerrigan, Edward J., 181

Kety, Seymour S., 16, 42, 63, 65, 74

Keyser, David, 119

Keyston, John, 236

Khrushchev, Nikita S., 47, 131, 137, 152-153, 238-239, 316

Kilgore, Barney, 233

Kilgour, Bayard Livingston, 246

Killian, James R., Jr., 1,2,7-8,9,10,13, 94, 103, 299

Kimball, Dan A., 158, 169, 200, 201

Kimpton, Lawrence A. (see also NASA, Kimpton Committee and), 29n, 120, 151, 180

Kines, Bill, 115

King, David S., 130

King, Robert L.,193- 194,195- 196,199, 200, 202, 210, 234

Kirk, Grayson, 169, 186

Kistiakowsky, George B., 23, 36, 38, 40,43,54,81,95,101,106,158,178, 189, 194, 196, 212-214, 223, 224, 232, 236, 255, 256, 273, 280, 281, 291, 292, 297, 301

Kisti[akowsky] Report, 61

Knights Templars, 121

Knowland, Scn. William F., 17

Knox, Rozella, 187,188,217-218,293, 294

Knox, Stuart C., 187, 188, 217-218, 293, 294

Kraar, Louis, 268

Kreuzer, Barton, 190, 231

Krieger, Robert L., 83

Kroeger, Eleanor, 237

Kroeger, Hal A., 237

Kroeger Organization, A. & H., 237

Kurzweg, Hermann H., 232

Kusik, John, 57

Kuter, Gen. Laurence S., 165

Labor, Department of, 276

Lacklen, Robert J., 166, 231

Land, Edwin H., 304

Langley Research Center (see under NASA)

Lanphier, Thomas G., Jr., 93

Lapham, Maxwell, 154

Laughton, Charles, 106n

Lear, John, 180

Lederer, Ludwig George, 95, 102

Lehrer, Max, 107

Lemnitzer, Katherine, 257

Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman, 11, 223, 224, 234-235, 257

Lewis Research Center (see under NASA)

Lilly, William E., 126

Lindlcy, Ernest K., 93

Lindsay, John V., 214

Lindseth, Elmer L., 68n,120,121, 156, 189

Lines, Albert W., 87, 109

Ling, Donald P., 43-44

Lippmann, Walter, 61, 305

Little Moon overAlban, 277

Littlewood, William, 240

Litton Industries, 213

Livingstone, Raymond S., 164

Lleras, President (of Colombia), 113

Lloyd, O. B., 249n

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, 89

Electra, 100-101, 107, 112-113, 147, [379] 160, 209

Lodge, Amb. Henry Cabot,44,185,265

Lodge, Amb. John, 185- 186

Lord, Doug, 292

Los Alamos Scientifc Laboratory (see under AEC)

Lovell, A. C. Bernard, 155, 171, 178180

Low, George M., 36, 98, 160,198,214, 300

Lowe, Albert, 150

Luedecke, Maj. Gen. Alvin R., 65,112, 116, 134-136, 141, 173

Lundin, Bruce T., 228, 230, 232, 245

Lynch, Gerald, 202

MacGregor family, 205-206

MacLean, John, 304

MacLeish, Archibald, 230, 243

Macmillan, Prime Minister Harold, 145n, 152-153

Maddox, John, 164

Magnuson, Sen. Warren G., 147

Malinovsky, Soviet Min. of Def. Rodion Y., 153

Mallon, Neil, 160, 264

Manned Spacecraft Center (see under NASA)

Margaret, Princess (of England), 98

Marshall, Katherine [Mrs. George C.], 95, 215-216, 224, 225, 226

Marshall Space Flight Center (see under NASA)

Martin, Glenn L., 97n

Martin Company, The, 97

Martin, Joseph W., Jr., 39, 46-47, 162

Martin, Paul, 79

Massey, H. S. W., 51n

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 133-134, 142

Icing Phenomena Laboratory, 133

Instrumentation Laboratory, 133

Lincoln Laboratories, 133

Mayo, Alfred M., 149

Mayo Clinic, 233

McCabe, Edward A., 31, 32, 34, 35

McCarthy, C. J., 160

McCarthy, Sen. Joseph R.,6,186n,229

McCone, John A., 40, 43, 45, 62, 73-74, 103,112,114,129-131,134-137,141, 158, 172, 207, 221, 244, 255, 265, 269, 280, 297, 298, 301

McCone, Rosemary, 269

McCormack, Eleanor, 133

McCormack, Maj. Gen. James,132- 134

McCormack, John W., 6-7, 39, 46-47, 52, 59, 65-66, 81, 128, 151, 227

McDonnell, James S., Jr., 126, 165

McDonnell Aircratt Corp., 56n, 126, 165, 173, 197, 302, 303

McElroy, Camilla, 246

McElroy, Sec. of Def. Neil H.,6,10,11, 22, 75, 246

McGee, Frank, 144

McGuire, Edward Perkins, 285

Mclntyre, Cardinal James F. A., 269

McKelway, Benjamin M.,233,286,290

McKenney, J. D., 270

McKinney, Robert M., 36, 255

McKinsey and Company (see also Corson, Young), 8, 12, 29n, 57, 61, 92,123,150-151,176,197,215,223, 242, 250

McKnew, Thomas W., 214

McKnight, John, 253

McNamara, Robert F., 261n

McNaught [newspaper] Syndicate, 177

McNeely, Eugene J., 153

McPhee, H. Roemer, 52, 55

McSweeney, John M., 72

Meader, George, 55

Medaris, Maj. Gen. John B., 9, 10, 12, 22,70, 111

Countdown to Decision, 240

"Meet the Press," 115- 116, 211, 268, 303

[380] Mellon institute, 119

Mengel, John T., 170, 214

Menshikov, Mikhail, 37

Merchant, Livingston T., 44, 152, 172

Mercury (see Project Mercury under NASA)

Merriam, Robert E., 7, 35, 86

Mesthene, Dr., 196, 259

Metcalf, George, 209

meteorological satellites (see also Nimbus and Tiros I and II under NASA), 100, 108n, 109-116, 137, 202, 210, 232, 242, 243, 276, 277, 279

Mettler, Ruben F., 124, 129, 195

Metropolitan Club, 103

Miami University, 158

Mickelson, Sig, 117

Mickle, Will, 125

Middelfart, Gerd Gjems, 162-163

Middelfart, Peter A. H., 162- 163

Millett, John D. & Mrs., 158-159

Millis, John S., 164

Milton, Hugh M., 223, 224, 225

missile gap issue,31-32,40,44, 67,79, 90, 177

Mitchell, Elliott, 149

Mitchell, Sec. of Lab. James P., 88, 276, 277

Mittauer, Richard T., 149, 304

Modarelli, James J., 78, 210

Monroe, Donald, 195

Monroe, R. Adm. Jack Pendleton, 69

Monroney, Sen. A. S. Mike, 305

Morgan, Gerald D., 23, 33, 35, 52, 55,192

Morris, Delmar M., 51

Morris, Joseph Chandler, 154

Morris, Warren, 52

Morrow, Tom, 63, 115, 138

Morison, Robert S., 63, 65

Morse, Richard S., 45, 166, 172, 289

Morse, Robert Warren, 299

Moss, Sen. Frank E., 67

Mueller, Fritz, 306

Mundt, Sen. Karl E., 61

Murphy, Franklin, 169

Murray, Peter, 249-250

Nassau, Jason John, 104

National Academy of Sciences, 15, 103,106, 108, 254

Space Science Board, 30

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), 1-2, 4, 5, 16

Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, 11 n

National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, 1,2

attempts to revise (see also Lyndon Johnson), 24-27, 33-34, 35, 38, 39, 46, 88, 92, 94, 1]2, 124, 126, 170, 171, 208, 217, 221, 271, 314

patent clause, 201 -202, 217, 271

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aeronautics research, 132

Ames Research Center, 11,81 -82,83, 105,152n,175,184, 191, 245, 249, 266, 295

Apollo program, 36, 37, 191, 216217, 227, 242, 245, 255, 269, 274, 292, 297, 298, 303

apprentice system, 76n, 77

astronauts, 20n, 21, 95

astronomers, support of, 94-95

audit function, 256

bioscience advisory committee, 16, 33,42,63,65,74

budget, 2, 4, 9, 23-24, 57-58, 60, 63, 71, 77-78, 89, 105, 107, 118-119, 123, 128, 140, 143, 151, 155, 159, 162, 163-164, 167-168, 170, 172174, 177, 195, 203, 206, 207, 210, 238, 241, 242, 251-253, 255, 257, 264, 267, 270, 271, 273, 274, 276279 passim, 281, 282, 287, 292, 296, 303-304, 314-316

[381] Centaur rocket, 116, 183, 238, 242, 257

communications satellites (see also Echo, Relay, Telstar), 189- 190, 194, 196, 203, 205, 207, 209, 212, 221, 228-229, 232, 234, 236, 237, 242, 243, 244-245, 250, 251-257 passim, 260, 264, 269, 271, 278, 278, 281, 285-287, 290-292, 301-303, 306

congressional relations (see budget and names of individual congressmen and senators, listed in biographical appendix)

creation of, 1, 9

cultures within, 108n

Echo satellite, 49, 79, 101-102, 146, 154, 232, 234, 236, 285

film on, 178, 204

stamp commemorating, 210, 212, 289

Edwards Flight Research Center, 152n, 187-188

U-2 aircraft at, 188

environmental test chambers, 213

executive development program, 96, 166, 210, 223, 231, 288

Explorer VIII, 252n, 262n

flight testing versus ground testing, 166

Gemini program, 230n

geodetic satellite, 151 n

Goddard Space Flight Center, 5, 14, 132, 152n, 183, 184n, 191, 192193, 201n, 204, 269-270, 283, 288

Goddard Institute tor Space Studies, 285

theoretical division, 285, 297

Greenewalt Committee and, 29

international cooperation, 72, 74

inventions and contributions board, 142

ion engine, 150

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 12, 128,152n, 178, 182, 187,192-193, 241,301, 309

Goldstone Station, 204

Juno launch vehicle, 192-193, 252, 262

Kennedy Space Center (see Missile Firing Laboratory under Marshall Space Flight Center)

Kimpton Committee and, 29n, 68n,120-121, 141-143, 148-149, 151-152, 156, 158, 180, 182, 189, 199, 234, 237, 247, 249

Langley Research Center, 69, 76-77, 83, 132, 134-136, 152n, 178, 191, 193n, 201n, 227, 301

Lewis Research Center, 83, 11

On, 134, 152n, 300

astronaut training device at, 134

Plum Brook reactor site, 66, 73-74, 134-136, 141

life sciences in (see also Randt, Clark),16, 74-75, 79, 80, 98,149,175, 202, 221, 245-246, 290, 299

Little Joe launch vehicle, 33, 259n

location of headquarters, 166, 168-169

long-range plan, 18, 45, 142, 276

management analysis group, 189

Manned Spacecraft Center, 14- 15,152n, 175n, 228, 274

Mariner, 183n, 313

Marshall Spaceflight Center (see also DOD, ABMA), 77n, 83, 87, 88, 126, 152n, 193, 261-262, 275, 290, 298

dedication preparations and ceremony, 207-208, 214-215, 223-227

executive order naming, 95

Missile Firing Laboratory, 78n, 152n, 175, 261-262, 264

strike, 262, 268-269, 276, 277

maturity of organization, 302

[382] NASA-industry conference, 178,181, 182, 184-185, 189-191, 196, 275

Nimbus, 184, 190, 198-200, 205

Nova launch vehicle, 13n, 32

office space, 90

orbiting astronomical observatories project, 201, 208, 241, 283

orbiting geophysical observatories, 288

organizational issues (see also McKinsey and Company, Kimpton Committee), 8-9,92, 152, 190, 195, 197, 203, 242, 247, 267, 273

personnel issues (see also Bonney, Horner), 71, 72, 77, 83-84, 126, 176, 197, 223 pay, 72, 77, 270

physicals for senior staff, 181

Pioneer Ill, 12n

Pioneer V, 90n,91 -93,97-98,99,108, 125, 131, 178, 256n

plasma jet engine, 110

and the press/media, 10-11, 20, 21, 36, 51, 53, 56, 66-67, 79, 89, 93-94, 100, 103-104, 110, 112, 114, 116-117, 123, 125-126, 130, 143-144, 149, 158, 161, 164, 182, 193, 211-212, 220-222, 231, 238, 240, 253, 257, 268, 273, 275-276, 280, 283, 284, 286, 290, 300, 301 (see also public information under Glennan, T. Keith)

program control center, 98, 180

program management system, 98n, 123, 169, 193-194, 196, 210, 219

Project Comet, 141

project management, 203, 231, 248, 288

Project Mercury, 13, 15, 16, 56n, 58, 77,79,80,148,165-166,173,175, 180, 197-198, 214, 220, 243, 252, 256, 257, 259, 262, 275, 286, 290, 300, 313

avoidance of "circus" atmosphere in, 298

control center, 262

Mercury-Redstone launches, 259260, 273, 291, 300

recovery operation, 273

Project Ranger, 128, 130

Project Shotput (see also Echo), 101, 111

Project Sunflower, 119

Relay program, 302n, 303n, 313

reliability program, 208

Saturn program, 22-23, 29, 32, 40-47, 56n, 57, 104, 107, 180, 183, 206-207, 210, 216, 223, 237, 249, 255, 261-262, 303

C-2 version, 274

J-2 engine,75n, 96n, 107, 136, 137, 144, 149, 155, 158, 169, 185

Saturn I

S-4 stage, 63, 107n, 123- 126, 129131, 138

Saturn IB, 107n

Saturn V, 13n, 107n, 108n

F-1 engine, 13, 15, 75

scientific satellite program, 235

Scout booster, 13, 51, 69, 193n, 239

space exploration program council, 298

staffing of,8, 74, 83-84, 87, 163,235

study program, 302

Surveyor, 183n, 302, 309

Syncom project, 205n

Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) 1, 108n, 109-116, 122, 137-138, 190, 256

Telstar, 301, 303n, 313

Tiros 11, 276

10-year plan, 18n, 33, 45, 251, 264, 278, 292

Thor-Able (see separate entry under Thor)

Thor-Agena (see separate entry under [383] Thor)

Thor-Delta (see separate entry under Thor) tracking stations, 148, 153-154, 167, 170, 173, 178, 181, 183, 204

Wallops Island, 2, 33, 49, 75, 152,183, 239n, 259

Western Operations Off~ce, 85, 218, 223

Williamsburg conference, 246-248

zero-gravity research, 278

National Aeronautics and Space Council, 7, 18, 25, 33,40-46, 88, 124,126, 170n, 171, 296, 306

revamped by Kennedy administration, 314

National Aviation Club, 126

National Aviation Corporation, 286

National Bureau of Standards, 288

National Geographic Society, 214

National Labor Relations Board, 276

National Planning Association, 274

National Press Club, 280

National Science Foundation, 7, 125, 233

National Security Council, 7, 20, 44-45,110, 131, 204, 242, 245, 254, 259, 265, 280, 292, 297

Neumeyer, William, 274

Newell, Homer E., 100, 139, 205, 206, 285

Newlon, Frank Clarke, 103

Nike missile and launch vehicle, 110n

Nike-Asp launch vehicle, 109- 110

Nike-Cajun launch vehicle, 110n

Nippert, Edward W. and Mrs., 158

Nitze, Paul H., 29

Nixon, V.P. Richard M.,44,74,80,176, 217, 243, 250-251, 259, 263, 264-266, 291

on space program, 94

North, Warren J., 214

North American Aviation, Inc., 96-97, 190

Rocketdyne Division, 56n, 75, 96n, 136, 149-150, 185

Norton, Garry, 274

Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications (NERVA), 39n

Nunn, Robert G., Jr., 33, 45, 124, 189190, 194, 221, 228-229, 234, 236-237, 245, 256, 267, 269, 279, 281, 285, 287, 290, 306

Oakes, John, 51

oceanography, 150

Odishaw, Hugh, 103

Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, 212

O'Hearn, Charles M., 140, 242

Olin Foundation, 241

Operation Alert, 47

Operations Coordinating Board,7,132, 137

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 186

Orion (see Project Orion)

Osmers, Frank C., Jr., 64

Ostertag, Harold C., 172, 306

Ostrander, Maj. Gen. Don Richard, 60, 64, 65, 82, 87, 103, 104, 108, 116, 117, 129, 137, 149, 158, 172, 177, 180, 183, 184, 190, 192-193, 201, 207, 208-209, 214, 247, 250, 260, 267, 292

Overhage, Carl F. J., 133

Pace, Frank, Jr., 18, 280,297

Packard, John S., 3

Packard, Ruth, 3,4

Parker, John, 53

Parsons, John F., 105

Partridge, Gen. Earle Everard ("Pat"), 185-186

Patterson, Gov. John Malcolm, 225

Patterson, Morehead, 99, 120,152

Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 238-239

[384] Pearson, Nathan W., 99, 120

Percy, Charles H., 261

Perkins, Courtland, 169, 188, 281

Perkins, James A., 29, 99, 114,120-121, 169, 250, 284, 311

Perkins, Jean, 311

Perkins, Karen, 118

Perkins, Milo Randolph, 93, 118-20, 305

Pershing missile (see under DOD)

Persons, Maj. Gen. Wilton B. ("Jerry"), 6, 17, 38, 41, 43, 47, 58, 60, 66, 74, 80, 95,155, 205, 208, 215-216, 270, 278, 281, 287, 289

and transition to next administration, 267, 307

Phillips, Franklyn W.,33,63,64,67,88, 92,93,95,98,99,106,108,117,132, 136, 143, 145, 167, 193, 209, 235

Phoebus, Clifford P., 79

Pickering, William H.,54,83,106,111, 123, 183

Pierce, Harvey, 88

Pierce, John, 173, 203

Pillsbury, Philip W., 140

Pinkel, l. Irving, 278

Pioneer (see under NASA)

Pittmann, Frank K., 134

Plasmadyne, 158

Pogue, Forrest C., 207n

Polaris program (see under DOD)

Power, Donald, 69

Power, Gen. Thomas S., 165, 235, 236

Powers,FrancisGary, 145, 188n

Pratt & Whitney, 107n, 150n

President's Commission on National Goals, 280

President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), 94, 139, 189, 193, 250, 255, 269, 291

Price, Don K., Jr., 284

Project Orion, 35

Project Rover (see under Rover)

Puckett, Allen E., 142-143

Purcell, Edward M., 29, 94, 304

Quarles, Donald A., 2, 9, 10- 11, 22

Quesada, Lt. Gen. Elwood R. ("Pete"), 101, 127, 188, 196, 306

Quimby, Freeman H., 149

Quigley, James M., 61, 111

Quinlan, Bob, 208

Raborn, V. Adm. William Francis, Jr., 216

Radio Corporation of America, 190, 197, 230, 302

Ramey, Jim, 122, 231

Ramo, Simon, 156, 164, 215, 238

Rand Coorporation,142,189,194, 196, 218, 232, 297

Randall, Clarence, 200

Randt, Clark T., 16, 65, 72, 74, 80, 81, 97, 98, 106, 173, 202, 221, 222, 246, 247-248, 249, 290

Ranger, Project (see under NASA)

Ravelle, Roger, 150

Redstone Arsenal (see Army Ballistic Missile Agency above under DOD)

Redstone launch vehicle (see Mercury-Redstone under NASA)

Rees, Eberhard F. M., 53, 166

Reichelderfer, Francis W.,116,202,277, 279

Reid, Henry J. E., 134- 136

Relay (see under NASA)

Remington Rand, 282

Republic Aviation Corp., 230

Republican National Finance Committee, 235

Reston, James Barrett ("Scotty"), 118119

Reston, Sarah Jane Fulton, 119

Rettaliata, John T., 7

Reuther, Victor G., 107

Revelle, Roger, 233

[385] Rhode, Richard V., 100

Ribicoff, Gov. Abraham A., 281

Rice University, 14, 263

Richardson, Sid, 46

Richmond, Millard, 32, 47, 70, 202, 221, 288, 307, 309

and Glennan's White House phone, 298

Richmond, Polly, 307, 309

Riehlman, R. Walter, 214

Rincliffe, George, 32

Robbins, Charles Edward, 149

Robinson, Fred, 286

Robinson, Marvin W., 268

Rocketdyne Division (see North American Aviation)

Rogers, Att. Gen. William P., 206

Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin D., 305

Rosen, Herbert H., 78, 95, 99, 105, 125, 149

Rosen, Milton W., 45, 65, 116

Rosenthal, Aaron, 126, 195, 202, 252, 273, 274, 278, 279

Rossi, Bruno, 304

Rostow, Walt W., 29

Rothrock, Addison M., 280

Roush, John Edward, 130

Rover program, 39n, 62, 65-66, 73, 103, 112-113, 117, 129, 136, 141, 158, 184, 190, 207, 221, 230, 231, 240, 244, 274, 280, 297, 298-299, 301, 303

Rubel, John, 250, 253-254, 265, 289, 305

Russell, Adm. James, 125

Russia (see Soviet Union)

Salisbury, Morse, 117- 118

Saltonstall, Sen. Leverett, 131,155, 172

Sarnoff, Brig. Gen. David, 187

Saturn program (see under NASA)

Saulnier, Raymond J. ("Steve"), 200

Scammon, Richard, 259

Schary, Dore, 258

Schaub, William F., 210, 264

Schirra, Walter M., Jr., 20n, 21

Schomburg, Lt. Gen. August, 70, 104, 225, 261, 269

Schreiber, Louis, 244

Schriever, Gen. Bernard A., 19-20,220, 258, 269, 280, 281, 288

Schriever, Dora Brett, 269, 281

Schweitzer, Albert, 251

Scout booster (see under NASA)

Seaborg, Glenn T., 195

Seamans, Eugenia, 238, 288

Seamans, Robert C., Jr.

mentioned, 21, 172, 177- 179, 181, 189-190, 192, 197, 217, 221, 223, 227, 228, 230, 235, 238, 241, 245, 247-249, 256, 260, 273-275, 276, 278, 279, 281, 284, 285, 290, 292, 297, 306, 316

introduction to Eisenhower, 291

statement in Congress, 315

swearing in as associate administrator, 220

Seaver, William, 52

Seltzer, Louis, 123

Senate Space Committee, 252, 312

Sergeant missile and launch vehicle, 10, 13n, 262n

Shannon, James A., 195

Shapley, Harlow, 233

Shapley, Willis H., 180, 264, 267, 273-274, 278, 301

Sharp, Dudley C., 206, 284

Shea, Timothy E., 96, 119- 120, 198

Sheldon, Courtney, 21, 297

Shepard, Alan B., Jr., 20n, 21, 198n

Siegel, Gerald, 208

Siepert, Albert F., 8, 11, 61,72, 85, 87, 119, 137, 149, 166, 178, 182, 184, 202, 203, 210, 223, 257, 273, 274, 275, 276

Silverman, Laura, 177

Silverstein, Abe,4,36,82,96,108,156, [386] 170, 171, 175-177, 181, 183, 184, 190, 191, 199-200, 202, 205, 214, 228, 229, 230, 232, 241, 242, 260, 269-270, 274, 278, 284, 285, 286, 290, 301, 302, 303, 306

chaired party, 308

Simons, Howard, 268

Simmons, Henry, 161

Simmons, Jessie Glennan, 187,293,294

Simmons, John,187,208-211,222,293

Sisk, B[ernice] F., 60-61

Slayton, Donald K. ("Deke"), 20n, 21, 259

Sloan Foundation, Alfred P., 105n

Smith, Howard K., 36

Smith, Kent H., 3, 86,89, 104-105, 119, 134, 156, 164, 222, 271, 274, 277, 278, 294

farewell dinner, 310

Smith, Adm. Kirby, 182

Smith, Ray, 202

Smith, Thelma, 3

Smithsonian Institution, 172

Snow, C. P., 287-288

Snyder, Murray, 11, 224

Sohier, Walter D., 45, 196n, 229, 275

Soviet Union

cooperation with, 35-36, 72,100, 104,131-132, 137, 141

issue of competition with, 23, 31-32, 40, 51, 94, 212, 214, 217, 239, 269, 304, 311, 315

Pacific test range, 39-40, 51

Russian educators, 86

spacecraft, 1,145-146,209,217,239, 280

and U.N., 54, 161, 238, 283-284

Space Council (see National Aeronautics and . . .)

Spahr, Charles E., 281

Sparkman, Sen. John J.,61,70,160,167

special assistant to the president for science and technology ("science advisor"; see also Killian, Kistiakowsky, Wiesner), 265

Spencer, Steven, 257

Spilhaus, Athelstan F., 233

Spivak, John, 268

Spivak, Lawrence, 115, 268

Sputnik 1, 1

Sputnik V, 209

Stack, John, 176

Stanford Research Institute, 83, 253, 266

Staats, Elmer B., 42, 57, 60, 70, 176, 180, 207, 242, 251, 282, 290, 301

Standard Oil Co., 232, 281

Stanley, Wendell M., 233

Stans,Maurice H.,16, 34, 41, 43, 44, 47, 70,143,164-165, 167-168,175,176, 180, 207, 246, 267, 270, 271, 276, 277, 279, 281, 282, 284, 299

Stanton, Frank, 29, 53, 69, 176

State, Department of (see also Herter, Christian), 112, 114, 176- 177, 183, 196, 197, 241, 248

Stauflacher, Charles, 68, 120

Steers, Newton Ivan, Jr., 231

Steichen, Edward, 214

Stein, Joseph A., 214, 265, 267

Stempler, Jack L., 142

Stennis, Sen. John C., 69, 71, 81, 105, 201

Stephens, Thomas E., 155

Steven, William P., 233

Stevens, Robert T. B., 6

Stevenson, Gov. Adelai E., 305

Stever, H. Guyford, 300

Stewart, Homer J., 33, 45, 89, 90, 154, 169, 181, 200, 203, 245, 251, 264, 278, 289

Stone, Don, 127

Stone, Marvin, 130

Stone, Walker, 233

Stratton, Julius A., 133

Stratton, Samucl S., 70

[387] Stroud, William G., Jr., 170

Strauss, Sec. of Commerce Lewis, 114, 186, 289

Stuhlinger, Ernst, 60

Stumpneck, Maryland (see under DOD, Naval Research Laboratory)

supersonic transport (see under FAA)

Summerfield, Postm. Gen. Arthur, 210, 212

Sunrise at Campobello, 258

Symington, Sen. Stuart, 17- 18, 40-41, 93

System for Nuclear Auxiliary Power (SNAP)-8 project, 96, 103

Taber, John, 172

Taggart, Joseph H., 266

Taggert, Maurice, 128-129

Taylor, Philip Brodt, 125

Teague, Olin E., 60, 306

Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) I (see under NASA)

Teller, Edward, 211, 227, 233

Telstar (see under NASA, Bell Telephone Laboratories)

Temco, 160

Tepper, Morris, 210, 232, 242

Texas A&M, 112-113

Texas Oil and Gas Association, 233

Thomas, Albert, 14, 15, 60, 66, 71-72, 77-78, 93, 95, 110, 118, 123, 128, 172, 214, 296

Thompson, Floyd L. ("Tommy"), 136, 178

Thompson, Howard, 263

Thompson,Shelby, 118,127, 136,141, 144, 147, 149, 167, 173, 182, 193, 197, 203, 249, 265, 267, 268, 274-275, 279, 290

Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge, Inc. (TRW), 103, 108, 119, 164, 215

Space Technology Laboratories, 108, 131, 174, 195, 218, 255-256, 260, 282, 288

Thomson, George, 299

Thor missile and launch vehicle, 13,27, 85

Thor-Able launch vehicle, 90-92, 256

Thor-Agena launch vehicle, 255

Thor-Delta launch vehicle, 146, 235

Titan missile and launch vehicle, 22, 84

Trapnell, Ned, 197

Trudeau, Arthur G., 10

Truman, Pres. Harry S., 94n, 175

Tulane University, 154

Twining, Gen. Nathan F., 44, 234-235

200 K (see NASA, Saturn, J-2 engine)

 

 

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U-2 incident (see also Eisenhower and), 167, 173, 213, 220-222

Ubell, Earl, 233

Ulmer, Ralph E., 119, 279

United Aircraft Corp., 242

United Givers' Fund, 230-231

United Kingdom, Foreign Office, 177

United Nations (U.N.), 238

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, 161, 268n

conference on space activities (proposed), 54, 161, 197, 283

United Research, 52

United Service Organization (USO) auditorium, 114, 240

United States Information Agency (USIA), 99, 113, 143, 171, 180, 205, 210, 253

Voice of America, 234

Radio Free Europe, 269

University of California at Los Angeles, 260

Urey, Harold, 233

USSR (see Soviet Union)

 

Valley Forge, 291

Vandenberg Air Force Base (see under DOD)

[388] Vanguard Project, 1, 97, 256n

Van Horn, Estelle, 268

Van Horn, Kent, 268

Van Keuren, Katherine M., 182

Veterans Administration, 306

Victory, John F., 189

von Braun, Wernher, 9, 22-23, 40, 53, 60, 64, 82, 87, 104, 108, 123, 129130, 167, 172, 183, 206, 225-226, 249, 261

speeches, 151

 

Wade, Maj. (later Lt.) Gen. David, 84

Wakelin, James H., Jr., 45

Walker, Roy (see Walter, L. Rohe)

Wallace, Al, 115

Waller, Fletcher, 120

Wasielewski, Eugene W., 241

Wallops Island (see under NASA)

Walter, L. Rohe, 212n War Production Board, 76

Washburn, Abbott M., 99

Waterman, Alan T., 7, 42,44, 230, 243

Watson, Mark S., 10

Watson, Dick, 261

Watson, Thomas J., Jr., 90, 261

Watts, Fred, 55, 57, 275, 277

Weather Bureau (see also Reichelderfer), 116, 202, 243

Weaver, Warren, 233

Webb,James E.,23,108n,251,311-317 passim

Welch, Edward C., 314

Werner, Bishop Hazen G., 158

Western Reserve University, 164

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, 208, 230, 283, 287

Westland, Jack, 64

Wexler, Harry A., 116

Wheaton, Anne W., 47

Whitcover, Jules, 52

White, Gen. Thomas D., 19, 124, 171-172, 206, 284, 287, 300

interest in becoming NASA administrator, 283

Whitman, Ann, 224

Whitman, Walter G., 196, 254

Whitney, Jack, 96

Whittier, Sumner, 306

Wiesner, Jerome, 273

Wiesner report, 304, 307

Wiggins, James Russell, 233, 286, 290

Wilcox, Francis O., 161

Wiley, Sen. Alexander, 107, 201, 211, 226

Williams, A. L., 261

Williams, Frank, 242

Williams, Gov. G. Mennen, 281

Williams, John Bell, 89

Williams, Ross Norman, 33n

Williams,Walter C., 176

Williamsburg (see it, project management, and executive development under NASA)

Willner, William, 59

Wilson, Meredith, 169

Wilson, V. Adm. R. E., 19n

Wilson, Robert E., 232, 297, 298

Wilson, Lt. Gen. Roscoe, 283

Wisconsin State College, 163

Wooldridge, Dean E., 109, 164

Wooldridge, Jack, 196

Worthington, Leslie B., 237

Wright, John David, 108, 109, 164

Wright Orville and Wilbur, I

Wright Memorial Trophy, 291

Wriston, Henry, 157, 280, 286

Wyatt, DeMarquis D.,36,144,182,206

 

X- 15 program, 83, 99-100, 187, 188n, 204

Yale University, 235, 242-243

engineering school, 242

Yates, Lt. Gen. Donald N., 277

Yeomans, R. Adm. E[lmer] [389] ("Buddy"), 82, 86

Ylvisaker, Paul, 284

York, Herbert F., 9, 10,22,45,50n,7476, 92, 106, 124, 142, 188, 201, 217, 235, 240, 250, 269

honorary degree, 156

York, Sybil, 156

Young, John ("Jack") Donald, 92, 123, 143, 149-151, 197, 223

Young, Sen. Stephen M., 64, 108

 

 

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Zanzibar, 173- 177, 183, 195

Zhukov, Soviet Min. of Def. Georgi K.,153

Zuckert, Barbara, 207

Zuckert, Eugene M., 136, 207, 297

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