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[Chapter 1: pp 3-59; Chapter 2: pp61-151; Chapter 3: pp153-198; Chapter 4: pp199-228]

 

 

A-1 bomb, 38
A-9 aircraft, 175
A-10 aircraft, 175
A-26 aircraft, 38
Abbott, Ira (Ez), 72-73, 104
Abrams, Creighton, 188
Acheson, Dave and Pat, 149
Acheson, Dean, 149
Adams, Mac, 145
Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft (AMSA), 179
Aerojet General Corporation, 182
Aerospace Corporation, 219, 230, 255
Agena rocket, 135
Agnew, Spiro, 150-51, 157, 175, 228-29, 242
Agriculture, Department of, 243
Airborne Command Post, 182-83
Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), 173-74, 245
Air Force Academy, 183
Air Force, United States, 4, 35, 38, 41, 52, 54-55, 59, 62-64, 92, 101-02, 148-49, 151, 153-198, 200, 219, 229, 231, 236, 242-49; and Scientific Advisory Board, 167
Airlift Command, 197
Air National Guard, 157
Air Products Corporation, 219, 222
Aldrin, Edwin E., Jr. (Buzz), 151
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) Corporation, 219, 223
Ames Research Center, 66, 72, 92
Anacostia (Washington, D.C.) Naval Station, 210
Anchorage, Alaska, 187
Anderson, Clinton, 140-42
Andover, Massachusetts, 42, 100, 185
Andrews Air Force Base, 173, 183, 187-88
Annapolis, Maryland, 28; also see Naval Academy, United States
Antarctica, 196
Apollo program, 4, 81-85, 88-151, 154, 215, 228, 236-38, 242-43; and Apollo 204 fire, 135-147, 239-40; and Apollo Applications Program, 243
Apollo: The Race to the Moon, 99
Applied Physics Laboratory, see Johns Hopkins University
Argentina, 192
Arkansas, 4
Arlington National Cemetery, 116, 139
Armenia, 208
Army Ballistic Missile Agency, 67
Army, United States, 67, 92, 114, 155, 168, 174-75, 194, 236, 244
Army Signal Corps, 30
Armstrong, Neil, 135-36, 150-51
Aronson, Joseph, 54
Asea Brown Boverei (ABB), 223
Atlas rocket, 58-59, 156
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 62, 82, 202, 204, 212
Atwood, Lee, 144
Australia, 125, 169, 188
Avalon, 4, 22-23, 28, 35, 44
AX aircraft, 174-75, 245
Ayer, Frederick, 32
 
B-1 aircraft, 179-81, 245
B-17 aircraft, 159
B-52 aircraft, 161, 175, 189
B-70 aircraft, 135
Babcock & Wilcox Company, 222
Baldwin, Gene, 186
Ballistic missile early-warning system (BMEWS), 93, 183, 191
Baltimore, 69
Baltimore Sun, 161
Bangkok, Thailand, 189
Bartlett, Charlie, 76
Batchelder, Sam, 108-09, 217-18
Bay of Pigs, 86
Bayonne, New Jersey, 39-40
Bechtel Corporation, 201
Bedford, Massachusetts, 4
Bell Aircraft Company, 50-51
Bell, Alexander Graham, 225
Bellcomm, 94
Bell, David, 82-83, 112
Bell Laboratories, 93-94
Bell, Larry, 51
Bellis, Benjamin, 170-71
Benson, Henry, 7-8
Benson, Rebe, 8
Berkeley, California, 228
Berlin, 20
Bermuda, 18
Berry, Chuck, 139-40, 142
Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, 4, 35, 42, 44, 65, 99, 106, 153, 204, 228
Billy Budd, 35
Bisplinghoff, Raymond L., 167
Boeing Aircraft Company, 145, 168, 173
Boeing 747 aircraft, 183
Bollay, Bill, 18, 24
Bolshevik Revolution, 85
Bolshoi Ballet, 181
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 5
Bonhomme Richard ship, 39-40
Borda, Richard J., 159
Borman, Frank, 138
Bosson, Albert Davis, 6, 9
Bosson, Campbell, 9, 14, 17, 217
Bosson, Dave, 13
Bosson, Pauline; see Seamans, Polly
Boston, 4, 7-8, 19, 21, 29, 36, 42, 53-54, 63, 76, 121-22, 125, 156, 222, 225, 240
Boston Bruins, 3
Boston Globe, 184
Boston and Lockport Block Company, 6, 217-18
Boston Museum of Science, 227
Boston Red Sox, 224
Boston University, 108
Bowdoin College, 9-10
Brackett, Ernest W., 96
Braun, Wernher von, 68, 74, 92-93, 96, 110, 113, 117-18, 228, 233
Brazil, 192
Bridgeton, Maine, 10
Briggs, Bob, 52
Broglio, Emilio, 125
Brooks, Johnny, 35
Brown, George, 159
Brown, Harold, 112, 155-56, 158-59
Browning, Frank, 217-18
Brunswick, Maine, 9-10
Bundy, McGeorge, 82
Bunker, Ellsworth, 188
Bureau of the Budget, 78, 96, 134; also see Office of Management and Budget
Bureau of Ordnance, see Navy, United States
Burlington, Massachusetts, 55-56, 59, 63
Burnham, Bradford, 35
Burrage, 106
Burundi, 43
Bush, George H. W., 220
Bush, Vannevar, 224
Byrd, Richard E., 3
 
C-5 aircraft, 156, 163-65, 167-68, 170-71, 245
C-45 Beechcraft aircraft, 38
C-47 aircraft, 177
C-19 aircraft, 177
C-130 aircraft, 168, 177, 196
C-141 aircraft, 193, 196
Cabot, Tom, 185
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 69, 106-07, 156
Calvert, James, 223
Cambodia, 161, 178; also see Vietnam conflict
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 40, 42, 153, 155, 184, 186, 211-12, 228
Camden, New Jersey, 53, 56-59
Camp David, Maryland, 183
Canada, 173, 182, 190-91
Cape Canaveral, 38, 61, 97, 110-11, 113, 116, 138-39, 146, 150-51, 154, 239
Caribbean Sea, 40
Carnegie Institution of Washington, 224, 227
Carter, Jimmy, 181, 210-11, 220, 231, 240
Case Institute of Technology (Case Western Reserve University), 62
Centaur rocket, 71, 156
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 156, 209
Chafee, John, 154-55, 194, 244
Chaffee, Roger, 136, 139-40, 144, 240
Challenger space shuttle disaster, 215, 228
Chamberlin, Clarence E., 3
Chance-Vought Corporation, 24-25
Charles, Robert H., 164
Charles River, 49
Checker cab, 131
Chelsea, Massachusetts, 6
Cherry Point, North Carolina, 37
Chicago, 197, 217; and 1968 Democratic Convention , 197
China, 135, 178, 188, 197-98, 227; also see Vietnam conflict
Chou, Amanda, 214
Christensen, Stratton, 17, 34
Chrysler Corporation, 50
Civil War, 199
Clark, "Snark," 15-17
Clifton, Chester V., 113, 115
Coast Guard, United States, 207
Cochran, Jackie, 151
Collins, Chip, 42
Columbia University, 43, 78
Columbus ship, 19
Combustion Engineering Company, 222-23
Commerce, Department of, 243
Commission on the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, U.S.-U.S.S.R., 207-08
Congress, 75, 80, 83-86, 90, 95, 97, 101-02, 126, 131, 139-42, 146, 158, 162-64, 172, 199-203, 205, 207, 234, 236, 239, 252-54
Connecticut, 13
Conrad, Pete, 127
Consolidated Engineering Company, 37
Convair aircraft, 100-02
Cook, Emmerson (Mike), 130, 185, 192
Cooper, Gordon, 95, 127
Cornell, 95
Cox, Catherine Bly, 99
Coxe, Louis, 35
Cravallus submarine, 205-06
Crete, 227
Cronkite, Walter, 115, 136
Crow, Duward L. (Pete), 159
Cuba, 86
 
Damocles, sword of, 244
Davis, Leighton (Lee), 38, 41, 113
Davis. W. Kenneth, 201
Dayton, Ohio, 38
Debus, Kurt, 98, 110, 113, 138
Defense, Department of (DoD), 5, 75, 88-89, 92, 95, 100, 134, 154-55, 157-63, 166, 171-73, 194, 196-97, 212, 229, 231, 233-34, 242-48, 255; and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 194, 242; and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), 158
Defense Support Satellite (DSS), 182-83
Dembling, Paul, 141
DiBella, Jo, 131
Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, 182
Dixon, Tom, 71
Dobbs Ferry, New York, 65, 78, 100, 106, 186
Doolittle, James H., 219
Draper, Charles Stark (Doc), 5, 26-28, 30-31, 39-41, 45-49, 51-52, 61, 81-82, 99, 137, 151; and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, 47, 81
Dryden Flight Research Research Center, 135
Dryden, Hugh, 63-64, 71, 73-74, 78-82, 84, 93, 95-96, 105, 115, 130-33, 146-47, 161, 232-33
DuBridge, Lee, 242
Duell, Nan Bosson and Wally, 36
Dukakis, Michael, 215-16
 
Eastern Yacht Club, 11
Eastman Kodak Company, 81
Edwards Flight Test Center, 72
EG&G Corporation, 30
Eglin Field, Florida, 38
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 50, 61, 67, 74-75, 82
Eli Lilly and Company, 219-21
Energy, Department of, 231, 250, 253
Energy Research and Development Agency (ERDA), 149, 201-11, 219, 222, 228, 231, 251-54
England, 19-20
English Channel, 20
Engstrom, Elmer, 54
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 203-04
Europe, 6, 33, 121, 173, 177, 190
 
F-1 engine, 76
F-4 aircraft, 175
F-5E aircraft, 245
F-6F aircraft, 37
F-14 aircraft, 171
F-15 aircraft, 163, 170-72, 245
F-105 aircraft, 175
F-111 aircraft, 156, 165, 168-70, 179-80, 245
Faget, Max, 66
Fairbanks, Alaska, 191
Fairchild Hiller Company, 175
FB-111 aircraft, 179
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 126
Federal Energy Administration (FEA), 252
Federal Reserve Board, 220, 226
Fiedler, Arthur, 57
Finney, John, 97
Fisk, Jim, 94
Flax, Al, 156
Fonck, René, 3
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 220-21
Ford, Gerald, 201-02, 204, 206-07, 209, 230, 252-253, 255
Fort, Edward B., 228
France, 3, 176
Fri, Bob, 207, 251
Furcolo, Foster, 57
 
Gagarin, Yuri, 83-84, 86
Gallatin, I. J., 114
Garland, Joseph, 42
Gemini program, 94-95, 110, 118, 120, 127, 135-37, 143-44, 165, 237
General Dynamics Corporation, 156, 163, 169-70, 205-06
General Electric Corporation, 148, 222
Geneva, Switzerland, 6
Germany, 155, 159, 187
Getting, Ivan, 219
Gillette Corporation, 225
Gilruth, Robert T., 66, 73-74, 99, 105, 110
Ginsburg, Robert N., 195
Glasser, Otto, 166
Glenn, John, 63, 66, 120
Glennan, T. Keith, 62-65, 67, 71, 73, 75-77, 80, 84, 219, 231-33, 250
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), 69, 72-73, 88
Godley, G. McMurtrie, 189-90
Goett, Harry J., 72-73
Gold, Tom, 95
Goldberg, Arthur, 128-29
Goldwater, Barry, 154
Goodpaster, Andrew, 74
Gray, Edward Z., 110
Gray, Paul, 212, 215
Great Britain, 220-21
Greece, 11
Greenland, 182, 190
Grissom, Virgil (Gus), 63, 111, 118, 136, 139-40, 143-44, 240
Grosvenor, Gil, 225-26
Grosvenor, Mel, 225-26
Groton, Connecticut, 205
Grumman Engineering Company, 99
Gulfstream aircraft, 101-02, 187
 
Hackes, Peter, 137
Haertline, Albert, 17-18, 23-24
The Hague, 64
Haiphong Harbor, 198
Haldemann, H. R., 194, 196, 247
Hampton, Virginia, 65
Handler, Philip, 199-201
Hanoi, see Vietnam conflict
Hanscom Air Force Base, 156-57
Hansen, Grant, 156-57, 166
Hartog, Den, 18
Harvard University, 4, 7-8, 17-22, 25-26, 28, 30, 33-34, 46, 82, 112, 157, 183-86
Hauck, Frederick, 215
Hawaii, 185-86
Hechler, Ken, 86
Helms, Dick, 209
Herculaneum, 227
Hesburgh, Theodore, 122-23, 172
Hewlett-Packard Company, 154
Hilburn, Earl, 71, 133-34
Hill, Linda, 205
Hines, Bill, 92, 97
Hitler, Adolf, 33
Hmong, 189-90
Ho Chi Minh trail, 176
Holmes, Brainerd, 93, 98-99, 103-06, 108, 139, 236, 238
Holloway, Bruce, 160, 172
Hood Milk Company, 76
Hood Rubber Company, 6
Hoopes, Tim, 156
Hoover Commission on military reorganization, 157
Hoover, Herbert, Jr., 37
Horner, Richard G., 63, 84, 232-33
Hornig, Don, 137
Houbolt, John C., 67, 98, 229, 236-38; and lunar-orbit rendezvous (LOR) scenario, 67, 98-99, 229, 236-38
Houghton, Dan, 168
Houston, 66, 72, 84, 101-02, 110-12, 127, 139, 150, 238; also see Johnson Spacecraft Center and Manned Spacecraft Center
Hubbard, Gardiner H., 225
Hugel, Charlie, 223
Hughes Aircraft Company, 55-56, 170-71, 173
Humphrey, Hubert, 120, 136, 229, 240-42
Hunsaker, Jerome, 45
Huntsville, Alabama, 67-68, 92, 111; also see Marshall Space Flight Center
Hyatt, Abe, 88
 
Iceland, 190
Innsbruck, Austria, 20
Interior, Department of, 204, 243
Interleaf Company, 216
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 207, 209
International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation, 157, 220, 227
International Geophysical Year, 69
Iran, 205, 209, 227
Iraq, 198
Israel, 227
Ives, David, 13, 35
Italy, 20, 105, 125
 
Japan, 131, 187
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 63, 69, 72, 102-03
Jetstar aircraft, 186-87
Johnny Appleseed's Company, 217-19
Johns Hopkins University, 250; and the Applied Physics Laboratory, 52
Johnson, Howard, 154-55, 211-12
Johnson, Johnny, 75
Johnson, Kelly, 170
Johnson, Lady Bird, 129-30, 139, 150, 227
Johnson, Lyndon B., 75-76, 79, 82-83, 87, 90, 102, 111, 119, 121, 123, 126-30, 132, 137, 146-48, 150, 167-68, 197-98, 229, 233-34, 239-41
Johnson Space Center, 66; also see Manned Spacecraft Center and Houston
Joint Chiefs of Staff, see Defense, Department of
Jones, David C., 173
Jordan, 227
Jupiter, 145
 
Kai-shek, Chiang, 161, 188
Kappel, Frederick R., 219
KC-135 aircraft, 187
Keil, Alfred, 211
Keller, K. T., 50
Kelly, Mervin, 93
Kennedy Center, 181
Kennedy, Edward M., 132
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 116-119
Kennedy, John F., 61, 74-76, 78, 82-83, 86-88, 90-91, 104-05, 111-118, 143, 211, 234, 236, 250
Kennedy, John F., Jr., 116-18
Kennedy, Joseph, 74
Kennedy Space Center (KSC), 98, 117
Kenya, 125
Kerr, Robert, 79, 102-03
Kent School, 13-14
Kent State University, 197
Kerrebrock, Jack, 214
Khe Sanh, 176
Kildow, Judith, 213
Killian, James, 50, 52, 156-57
Kindelberger, Dutch, 144
King, David S., 84-85
King, Edward, 216
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 148
Kingswood Camp, 10
Kissinger, Henry, 165, 194
Kloss, Henry, 216
Korean War, 61
Kravis, Henry, 225
Kronstein, Elliot, 186
Kuwait, 198
 
Laika dog, 61
Laird, Melvin, 148, 154-56, 158-59, 161, 163, 165, 169, 175, 194-96, 229, 242, 244-45, 248
Land, Emory and Betty, 35
Langley Research Center, 65-67, 69, 92, 98, 101, 138
Laos, 161, 176, 178, 189, 198; also see Vietnam conflict
Las Vegas, Nevada, 208
Launcestown, England, 19
Lauritsen, Charles C., 219
Lawrence University, 157
Leaper, Charlie, 222-23
Lenox School, 9, 14-17, 65, 100
Lewis, Dave, 170
Lewis Research Center, 66, 72, 92-93
Lewis, Richard E. (Dick), 24-25
Lilly, Eli, 220; also see Eli Lilly and Company
Lincoln, Abraham, 199
Lindbergh, Charles A., 3, 120
Linder, Clarence, 199-200
Lipsomb, Glen P., 156
Liverman, Jim, 251
Lockheed Corporation, 163, 168, 170, 245
Lockport Block Company, 217
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 192
Lodge, John, 192
Logistics Command, 197
London, 121-22
Long Island, New York, 39, 175, 206
Lord Company, 219
Loring, Caleb, Jr., 31, 34-35, 65, 108-09
Los Angeles, 36, 218
Low, George, 73, 83-84, 137
Loweth, Hugh, 203
Lunar Orbiter program, 69
Lunar-orbit rendezvous (LOR) scenario, 67, 98-99, 236-38
Lycoming Company, 175
 
Machu Picchu, 227
MacLeod, Fred, 47
Madden, Jimmy, 227
Maine, 52
Malcarney, Art, 56-59, 91, 93
Malley, George, 138
Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL), 165
Manned Spacecraft Center, 66, 105, 112, 127; also see Johnson Space Center and Houston
Marblehead High School, 10
Marblehead, Massachusetts, 8, 11, 13, 20, 23, 31-32, 35, 44, 222
Mariner spacecraft, 69
Marines, United States, 158
Mark 14 project, 47
Mars, 145, 150-51, 242, 244
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), 67-68, 72, 74, 96, 110, 117
Martin, Mary, 54
Martin, William McChesney, 220, 226
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Clinic, 43; and the Winthrop Foundation, 43
Massachusetts General Hospital, 42
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 3, 18, 24-31, 34, 38, 41, 45-52, 54, 57, 61, 70, 74, 108, 140, 153-55, 157, 167, 190, 202, 211-15, 219, 222-23, 225, 228, 242
Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), 216
Mateson, Bob, 191
Mathews, Charles, 110
McBride, Bob
McClellan, John, 169
McClennan, Marsh, 224
McConnell, J. P., 159, 169, 179
McCormick, John, 234
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 112, 135, 171-72
McKay, Gordon, 217
McKay, Walter, 37-38
McKee, William F. (Bozo), 126
McKinsey and Company, 203
McLucas, John, 156-57, 161, 172, 194
McNamara, Robert, 87-90, 100, 111, 137, 159, 164, 169, 197-98, 229, 233-34
Medal of Freedom, 120
Mediterranean Sea, 20
Meir, Golda, 167
Mekong River, 176-77, 189
Mercury program, 62, 66-67, 74, 83, 88, 94, 95, 105, 110-11, 113, 143, 147, 234, 237
Merrill, Eugenia (Gene); see Seamans, Eugenia (Gene)
Merrill, Ezra
Merrill, Keith and Katherine, 4-5, 7, 23, 28-29, 31-32, 43-44
Merrill, Keith, 4, 29, 35
Merrill, Rosemary (Romey), 4, 22-23, 29, 31, 45
Merritt Island, 113-14
Mettler, Rube, 91
Mexico, 186, 192-93
Meyers, John, 174
Michoud Assembly Facility, 111-12
Middlesex School, 21
Middleton, Massachusetts, 42, 44-45
Miller, George, 112
Minot Air Force base, 191
Mississippi test facility, 143
MITRE Corporation, 156-57
Momyer, William, 171, 177
Mondale, Walter, 141-42, 211
Monks, George Gardner, 15-16
Montana, 21, 36
Montgomery Ward Company, 78
Moot, Bob, 159
Morgan Holland Company, 216
Morris, Frederick, 35
Moscow, 181, 208
Moyers, Bill, 128
Mueller, George, 108-10, 113, 138, 140-42, 145, 151
Murray, Charles, 99
 
Nadas, Elizabeth (Betsy), 185
Nairobi, Kenya, 125
Napoleon, see Bonaparte, Napoleon
National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 197, 199-201, 203, 212, 219, 247-48, 251
National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 132, 140, 199-200
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), 28, 45, 61-63, 72, 75, 92
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 38, 49, 61-151, 156-58, 160-62, 165-66, 187, 199, 201, 212, 215, 219, 228-43, 245, 249; and NASA Alumni League, 228
National Aeronautics and Space Council, 88
National Broadcasting Company (NBC) News, 137
National Bureau of Standards, 252, 254
National Cathedral, 227
National Cathedral School for Girls, 77, 124
National Child Research Center, 100
National Democratic Club, 79
National Geographic magazine, 209
National Geographical Society, 185-186, 220, 225-27, 250
National Institutes of Health, 131
National Institute of Medicine, 200
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 243
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), 156, 168
National Research Council (NRC), 199-201
National Science Foundation (NSF), 202, 204, 224
National Security Council, 248
Naumkeag Mills, 6-7
Naval Academy, United States, 34, 215; also see Annapolis
Navy, United States, 27, 34, 37-40, 47, 49-52, 69, 92, 114, 154-55, 168, 171, 177, 194, 198, 205-06, 236, 244, 246; and Bureau of Ordnance, 40, 49, 51
Neptune, 145
New Delhi, 125
New England Medical Center, 227
Newfoundland, 34
New London, Connecticut, 19
New Orleans, 111
Newton, Massachusetts, 47
New York City, 3, 120, 122, 240
New York Stock exchange, 220
New York Times, 90, 97, 105, 161
New Zealand, 196, 227
Nixon, Richard M., 4, 74, 148-49, 158-59, 165, 194-98, 201, 229, 242, 247-49, 252
Norfolk, Virginia, 40
North American Aviation Company, 18, 96, 141, 144-45, 170, 239
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 64, 124, 190
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, 228
Northeastern University, 43
Northrop Corporation, 175
Norway, 190
Notre Dame University, 122, 172
Nova rocket program, 238
 
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 206
O'Brien, Larry, 128
O'Donnell, Kenneth, 86
Odyssey, 11, 15
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 201, 203, 231, 252
Office of Scientific Research and Development, 224
Okinawa, Japan, 187
Oldfield, Homer (Barney), 30
Omaha, Nebraska, 160, 181
O'Neill, Thomas P. (Tip), 250
Operation Desert Storm, 174-75, 198
Oraflex drug, 220-21
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 207
Ostrander, Don, 72, 80
Ousley, Gil, 122-23
 
P-38 aircraft, 38
Packard, David, 154, 161, 163, 168, 171, 244
Paducah, Kentucky, 206
Padulo, Lou, 106-08, 119, 121-22, 244
Paine, Thomas O., 148-49, 242
Panama, 191-92
Paris, 3, 20, 124
Park, Chung Hee, 161
Parker, Eddie and Nat, 109
Park Service, 226
Pasadena, California, 31, 36-37, 103
Patten, Helen, 43-44
Patton, Bea, 36
Patton, George S., Jr., 4, 36
Payne, Mel, 226
Pearl Harbor, 33
Peenemünde, 93
Pentagon, see Defense, Department of
Perkins, Courtland (Court), 64
Perrin Seamans and Company, 8
Persepolis, 227
Peru, 192
Peter Pan, 54
Petrone, Rocco, 151
Philadelphia, 34, 53, 222, 228
Philippines, 187
Phillips Academy, 100, 185
Phillips, Samuel L., 110, 138, 141-42, 151; and Phillips task force report, 140-42
Phipps, Cadis, 20-21
Pickering, John, 44
Pickering, William H., 63
Pittsburgh, 185, 228
Plymouth, England, 19
Pneumo Company, 219
Poa, Van, 189
Polaris missile, 113-14, 168
Pollard, Ben 193-94
Pollard, Joan, 193-94
Pompano Beach, Florida, 31
Pope Paul VI, 122-24
Popular Mechanics, 10
Portsmouth, Ohio, 206
Pound, Bill, 214, 223
Powder Puff Derby, 151
Powers, Gary, 64
Pratt & Whitney Company, 171
President's Space Council, 228
Preston, Dick, 54
Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, 4, 22, 44, 65
Prince of Wales, 11
Princeton University, 134
Project Meteor, 49-52, 61
Proxmire, William, 102-03
Puerto Rico, 172
Purdy ship, 40
Putnam Funds Company, 223-25
Putnam, George, 224-25
Putney School, 204
 
Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 52-59, 61-63, 68, 70, 78, 93, 106, 232
Ramo-Woolridge Company, 91, 219; also see TRW (Thomson-Ramo-Woolridge), Inc.
Ranger spacecraft, 69, 123, 235
Rantoul, Ellie, 7
Ray, Dixie Lee, 202
Raytheon Corporation, 140, 219
Reagan, Ronald, 181
Redstone Arsenal, 67
Redstone rocket, 74
Rees, Eberhard, 68
Renchard, George and Stella, 43
Renchard, Stella Mae, 43-44
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), 195, 197
Resor, Stanley, 154-55, 174, 194, 244
Rice University, 112
Richardson, Elliot, 193, 196-97, 248
Rickover, Hyman, 205-06
RJR Nabisco Company, 223
Roberts, Richard W., 230, 252, 254
Rockefeller, Lawrence, 196
Rockefeller, Nelson, 175
Rolls Royce plc, 168
Rome, 122-25
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 224
Rosenblith, Walter, 211
Rubel, John, 89-90
Ruckelshaus, William D., 203
Rush, Ken, 155, 173
Rusk, Dean, 127-28
Ryan, John (Jack), 159-61, 165, 171, 174, 177, 180-81, 195
 
Sage, Nat, 41, 47, 51-52
Saigon, 176, 187-88
SAINT project, 62, 67
Salem Evening News, 120
Salem, Massachusetts, 7-12, 14, 21, 32, 35
Salinger, Pierre, 111
Saltonstall, Leverett, 132
San Jose State College, 106
San Marcos project, 125
Santorini island, 227
Santry, Arthur, 222-23
Sarnoff, David, 58
Sattlemeyer, John, 47
Saturn, 145
Saturn rocket, 77, 82-83, 96-97, 113-14, 116-18, 219, 236-38
Saturnia ship, 20
Schedler, Spencer J., 157, 159
Scheer, Julian, 113, 146
Schlesinger, Andy, 185
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 185
Schlesinger, James, 211, 229, 250
Schneider, William, 110
Schriever, Bernard, 233
Science: the Endless Frontier, 224
Scotland, 182, 221
Scott, Dave, 135-36
Scrivener, Nina, 86, 115
Seaborg, Glenn, 82
Sea Education Association (SEA), 227
Seamans, Beverly, 10, 52
Seamans, Caroline Broadhead, 8
Seamans, Daniel, 42, 65, 77, 100, 120-21, 204-05
Seamans, Donald, 9-10, 35, 52, 217-18
Seamans, Eugenia (Gene), 4-5, 9, 22-23, 28-37, 42-48, 52, 57, 64-66, 75-77, 97, 100, 106-09, 116-26, 137, 139, 147, 150-51, 153, 155, 183, 188-92, 208-12, 226-28, 231, 240, 244, 249
Seamans, Francis Augustus, 8
Seamans, James Otis (Jim), 13, 17, 28, 34-35
Seamans, Joe, 42, 44, 46, 65, 77, 99-100, 107, 119, 121, 150, 183-86, 250
Seamans, Kathy, 42, 44, 46, 65, 78, 100, 106-08, 119, 121, 186, 244
Seamans, May, 42, 65, 77, 100, 121-24, 186
Seamans, Peter, 9-10, 20, 34-35, 147, 183-84, 215-18, 240
Seamans, Pauline (Polly), 6-8, 14, 20, 22-23, 33-34, 77-78, 119
Seamans, Richard (Dick), 11, 17
Seamans, Robert Channing, 7-8, 77-78, 119
Seamans, Robert Channing, Jr.,
-Air Force career: 148-49, 151, 153-198, 200, 219, 228-29, 242-49; aircraft programs, 167-75, 179-81; contracting, 163-64; "forming the team," 156-60; comparison with NASA, 160-62; prisoner of war (POW) issues, 193-94, 248; project reviews, 165-66; recruitment by Melvin Laird, 153-55; reflections on, 194-98; role of Secretary, 194, 245-46; source selection, 162-63; Vietnam conflict, 174-79, 183-90, 193-98
-boyhood, 10-16
-college years, 17-23
-corporate board work, 217-27
-and Charles Stark (Doc) Draper, 26-28, 46-49
-ERDA career: 149, 201-11, 219, 222, 228, 230, 251-54
-family as childhood influences, 6-10; and married family life, 41-46
-and Eugenia (Gene) Merrill, early romance with, 22-23, 28-29, 31-33, 35-36
-heroes, 3-4
-MIT engineering school dean, 211-15, 223, 242
-MIT graduate studies, 23-26, 30-31
-military-related work, 37-42, 49-52
-NACA work, 61
-National Academy of Engineering (NAE) career, 199-201, 219, 247-48, 251
-NASA career, 61-151, 200, 219, 228-42, 249: Apollo program, 88-151; Apollo 204 fire, 135-47, 229, 239-40; Congressional testimony, 84-86; DoD relations, 86-92; first weeks, 64-66; initial organizational issues, 70-73; last days, 143-47; recruitment by Keith Glennan, 62-64, 231-33; incoming Kennedy Administration, 74; experiences with President Kennedy, 111-18; first tour of field centers, 66-69; management triad with James Webb and Hugh Dryden, 81-82, 105, 130-35; politics, 100-03; reflections on, 147-151; James Webb's arrival, 78-79
-RCA work, 52-59, 62-63, 68, 70, 78, 232
-venture capital work, 215-16
-World War II, 33-35, 37-39
Seamans, Stetson and Tuttle, 11
Seamans, Toby, 42-44, 46, 65, 100, 119, 121-22
Sears Roebuck Company, 78
Selective Service System, United States, 34, 155, 158
Senate, United States, 78-79, 97, 102-03, 109, 132, 140-42, 202-03
Shah of Iran, 205, 209
Shapley, Willis, 133-34
Shea, Joe, 93-94, 138, 140, 236
Shepard, Alan, 62, 83, 88, 120, 234
Shore, Eddie, 3
Shuttle, space, 219
Sihanoukville, Cambodia, 176
Silverstein, Abe, 69, 72-73, 80, 92-93
60 Minutes television program, 221
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, 196, 247
Sluder, John and Betsy, 45
Smathers, George A., 113
Smith, Levering, 92
Smith, Margaret Chase, 140
Smith, R. H., 25-26
Smith, Ted, 53, 55-57
Smith, William Y., 4
Smithsonian Institution, 3
Sohier, Walter, 116, 118, 147, 240
Sorenson, Ted, 90-91
Southeast Asia, see Vietnam conflict
South Korea, 187
Soviet Union, 61, 64, 71, 85, 87-88, 115, 176, 179, 181-83, 187, 197, 204, 207-09, 235-36
Space Station, 228, 243-44
Space Task Group, 66, 73-74, 101-02, 237, 242-43
Space Transportation System, 243
Sperry Corporation, 27, 30, 37, 39
Sputnik, 61-62, 70
Squam Lake, New Hampshire, 17
SR-71 aircraft, 170
St. Albans School, 65, 77, 107, 204
St. Louis, 135, 172
St. Mark's School, 15
Stalin, Josef, 125
Stabler, Kenny, 210
Stamford, Connecticut, 24
Standard Oil of Indiana, 204
Stanford University, 26, 100, 106, 157, 159
State, Department of, 90, 105, 149
Steadman, John M., 158
Stempler, Jack L., 158
Stevenson, Adlai, 121
Stever, Guy, 196, 202
Stone, Galen, 125
Storms, Harrison (Stormy), 144-45
Strategic Air Command (SAC), 160, 172, 180-81, 197
Strategic Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP), 181
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 184
Suez Canal, 125
Surveyor program, 235
Sweden, 223
Switzerland, 20, 121, 218, 223
Symington, Stuart, 161
Systems Acquisition Command, 197
 
Tactical Air Command, 177, 197
Tahiti, 185-86
Taiwan, 161, 187-88
Tarr, Curtis, 155, 157-59
Taylor Instruments Company, 223
Terry, Ron, 177
TFX aircraft, 163, 168-70
Thailand, 176, 178, 189-90, 245; also see Vietnam conflict
Thant, U, 120
Thayer, Rev. William Greenough, 15
Thomas, Albert, 84, 102-03
Thomas, Lowell, 121
Thompson, Floyd C. (Tommy), 66, 73, 98, 138-39
Thresher, B. Alden, 24-25
Thule Air Force Base, 191
Time magazine, 195
Titan rocket, 112
Tokyo, 187
Toward the Endless Frontier: History of the Committee on Science and Technology, 86
Tower School, 5, 11-13, 15, 35
Tracking Control Project, 38, 41-42, 45-46, 49
Transportation, Department of, 243
Trident submarine, 205
Trustees of Reservations, 227
Truman, Harry S., 61, 78, 102
TRW, Inc., 109, 219
Tufts, Otis, 11
Turkey, 190
 
U-2 aircraft, 64
Unger, Leonard, 190
United Aircraft Company, 170
United Geophysical Company, 37
United Nations (U.N.), 120-21, 129
University of California at Santa Cruz, 204
University of Wisconsin, 17
Uranus, 145
 
V-2 missile, 68
V-7 program, 38
Vail, Colorado, 193-95, 228, 244
Vance, Cyrus, 221
Vandenberg Air Force Base, 59
Vanguard program, 69, 71
Vatican, 123-24
Vaughn, Tina, 29
Venezuela, 192
Venus, 244
Vest, Charles, 228
Vienna, 207
Viet Cong (VC), 176, 198
Vietnam conflict, 155, 159-61, 174-79, 183-90, 193-98, 245, 247
Viking program, 145
Virginia Beach, Virginia, 48
Vitro Corporation, 50
Viva yacht, 205-07
Vostok spacecraft, 62
Voyager program, 145
 
Wagner, Robert, 120
Walker, Joe, 135
Walters, Ray, 203
Waltham Watch Company, 54-55
Washington, D.C., 23, 28, 31-34, 51, 63-65, 69, 77, 79, 90-91, 99-100, 106, 108, 112, 114, 125, 135, 139, 148, 150, 153-57, 173, 175, 181, 186-87, 189, 191, 193, 197, 199, 204, 209, 211-12, 220, 225, 227-28, 230-255
Washington Post, 147, 161
Washington Star, 142
Watson, Thomas, 227
Webb, James E., 78-150, 161, 226, 229, 233-36, 239-42; and his Checker cab, 131
Webb, Patsy, 149-50
Weicker, Lowell, 175
Wells Fargo bank, 159
Wellesley University, 185
Welsh, Edward C., 88, 241-42
Western Electric Company, 40
Westinghouse Corporation, 171, 173, 222
Westmoreland, William, 174
West Point, 139
Wheatland, Dave, 52
White, Ed, 136, 139-40, 144, 240
White House, 65, 70, 90, 95, 104, 111, 113, 117-20, 126-27, 147-48, 156, 158, 182, 194, 196, 203-04, 207, 211, 234, 239, 241, 247-49, 252-53, 255; and White House Committee on the Space Station, 228
White, Minor, 185
White, Paul Dudley, 21-22, 33-34
White, Phillip, 204
Whitney, Hazel, 65
Whittaker, Philip, 157
Wiesner, Jerome C., 74, 81-82, 87-88, 211-12, 215
Williams, Albert L., 220
Williams, Conger, 22
Williams, Ted
Williamsburg, Virginia, 68
Wilson, Carroll, 212
Wirth, Conrad, 226
Wiswall, Dick, 21
Wood, Connie and Nancy, 66
Wood, Richard, 220-21
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 227
Woodward, John, 53, 55-57
World War II, 33-35, 37-39, 61, 98-99, 114, 158-59, 176, 206, 224
Wright Field, 38, 41, 163, 177
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 3, 79-80
Wyatt, DeMarquis (D.), 80-81
 
Yale University, 62
Yeager, Chuck, 3-4
Yerevan, Armenia, 208
Young, Jack, 134
Young, John, 118
 
Zarb, Frank, 201-02, 252
Zuckert, Gene, 168

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