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  • Abbreviated timeline of the Apollo 11 mission.

    The timeline includes a memorandum from Friedjof A. Speer, manager of the Missions Operations Office, to employees of Marshall Space Flight Center. Speer notes that "astronaut Neil Armstrong is scheduled to be the first man to step onto the moon's surface." The timeline outlines the entire mission from liftoff at 8:32 AM on Wednesday, July 16, 1969 to splashdown at 11:49 AM on Thursday, July 24, 1969.
  • "Saturn I: The First Generation of Heavy Launch Vehicles Designed for Peaceful Exploration of Space."

    The leaflet outlines the history of Saturn launches and gives a physical description of the rocket. The description includes a diagram of each stage; specifications of each stage's thrust, propellants, liftoff weight, and burning time; and engine specifications.
  • <i>Space Journal</i>, vol 1, no.2, Spring 1958.

  • "General Formulation of the Iterative Guidance Mode."

    From the abstract: "This report discusses the iterative guidance mode and its application to three-dimensional upper stage vacuum flight. It is an inertial or closed system mode in that the only inputs required after liftoff are available from the onboard navigation system. That is, the iterative scheme computes steering commands as a function of the state and of the vehicle - velocity, position, longitudinal acceleration, and gravitational acceleration - and the desired cutoff conditions. The guidance commands are updated each guidance cycle, using the updated state of the vehicle. The iterative guidance scheme is a path adaptive guidance scheme in that it will retain its optimization properties under all expected types and magnitudes of vehicle perturbations without any loss in accuracy at liftoff."
  • Draft of "Concepts of the Iterative Guidance Law for Saturn Launch Vehicles."

    The summary notes, "In 1960, research work was begun to develop new guidance concepts for the Saturn space vehicles. [...] This paper presents the basics of the Iterative Guidance Law developed for Saturn launch vehicles to meet these new requirements of space age guidance. The development of the Iterative Guidance Law and the results and ideas presented in this paper are due primarily to Mr. Helmut J. Horn and his associates in the Dynamics Analysis and Flight Mechanics Division of the Aero-Astrodynamics Laboratory." Marked "Research Review, OK" in the upper right corner of the first page. The document includes corrections and additions to the text in red pencil.
  • Summary of the Iterative Guidance Mode.

  • "A Comparison of an MIT Explicit Guidance Principle with MSFC Iterative Guidance."

    From the summary: "Both [guidance] schemes steer toward a specified end point. The MIT scheme uses thrust to cancel out the effective gravity, a nonlinear term, which may be inefficient in certain cases. The MSFC scheme is more closely connected with calculus of variations and optimization theory in a reasonable degree of approximation."
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 1, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 1 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include ComSat's Apollo satelite, upcoming Gemini flights, the Voyager contract, the scheduling of the first flight test of the French SSBS, Lockheed Missile & Space's contract to study possible countermeasures against anti-missles, planned nuclear engine test activities, the launch of the Geodetic Explorer XXIX, the first underwater missiles delivered to the Navy, the developmet of "Dynaflare" for the Saturn program, and Department of Defense contracts.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 2, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 2 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include the acceleration of Soviet space testing activities, requests for advanced satellite tracking studies, the first flight model of the French satellite family, Gemini VI and VII, upcoming conferences, financial backlogs, earnings, and sales changes, contracts awarded, and several negotiations.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 3, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 3 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include the Apollo-support satellite system, the first manned Apollo flight scheduled, Soviet space acttivities, financial information, upcoming conferences, the future of space satellite systems, contracts awarded, and negotiations.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 4, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 4 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include Soviet communication with France, a delay in the Surveyor landing schedule, the missile launch detections systems (the MIDAS program), parachute testing for the Apollo program, laser technology, upcoming conferences, contracts awarded, and negotiations.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 5, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 5 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include the development of a anti-tank missile, an update on the Gemini VII and VI rendezvous mission, Soviet space activities, the launch of a French Vesta rocket, financial information, new grants, current studies, DOD contracts and negotiations, and a comparison of major space "firsts" achieved by the U.S. and the Soviet.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 9, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 7 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include upcoming demonstrations of CLAM propulsion concepts and new rocket nozzle systems, the upcoming launch of France's first satellite, considerations of a manned Mars flyby in the coming decade, Apollo heat shields, the launch of the first NASA gravity graadient stabilized spacecraft, economical information, a summary of NASA's advanced study program, and DOD and NASA negotiations and contracts.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 10, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 8 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include an lunar orbital survey, Explorer-class satellites, the MIDAS program, French space activities, the next Gemini flight scheduled, economic information, contracts and grants awarded, and DOD and NASA negotiations.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 12, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 9 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include the ComSat Apollo system, plans for a direct FM broadcast satellite, satellite communications and weather systems, the development of the Gemini pressure suit, upcoming banquets and conferences, the study of slush hydrogen as possible fuel source, the Gemini IX mission, and DOD and NASA contracts and negotiations.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 15, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 10 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include missile systems, proposals for the direct FM broadcast satellite, resistojet and raidoisotope rocket engine concepts for preliminary design development for the Manned Orbiting Research Laboratory, new power systems, the launch of the Soviet Venus probe, Soviet manned space tests activities, the escalation of troops in Vietnam, Wernher von Braun proposes one-way Mars mission in 1984, the naming of the MOL astronauts, upcoming tests and launches, economic information, a solar cell rejuvenator, future space business, and DOD and NASA contracts and negotiations.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 16, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 11 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include French-Soviet space cooperation plans, direct FM broadcast satellite, modifications of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, testing of the Stellar Inertial Guidance System, Gemini recovery operations, economic changes and stock information, the U.S.-Argentine space cooperation, and DOD and NASA contracts and negotiations.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 17, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 12 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include the development of a re-entry decoy system, Gemini recovery operations, the launch of Venus III probe, development of the radio astronomy explorer satellite antenna, guidance techniques for low-trust space vehicles, nuclear rocket and propulsion research and timelines, contract research and testing dates and postponements, and DOD and NASA contracts and negotiations.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 18, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 13 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include the proposal for a manned Mars mission in 1984, studies for new re-entry communications blackout solutions, economic impacts and changes, Saturn V booster stages recovery studies, the completion of the test model of the Apollo deep space antenna, and the missions of the applications technology satellites.
  • <i>Space Business Daily</i>, November 19, 1965.

    This is Vol. 23, No. 14 of Space Business Daily, a Space Publications newsletter. Topics include various space station programs, concerns over the Soviet display of orbital missiles in Red Square, nuclear rockets to be flown before the manned Mars mission, various drones, and an upcoming space-age technology hearing.

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