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  • "Manufacturing plan : Saturn V : booster stage S-IC. Volume 1."

    This procedure provides the necessary information for the fabrication and assembly of the Saturn C-5 booster stage S-IC. The manufacturing methods outlined herein represent techniques that will be utilized both at Michoud and MSFC wherever possible. The concepts and methods outlined are of a preliminary nature consistent with the stage of design at this time. These concepts and methods are subject to change. This Manufacturing Plan will be periodically updated to reflect such changes. The processes and techniques proposed in this Manufacturing Plan are generally within the present state of the art, consistent with reliability requirements for manned space flight and advocated for use with the limited manufacturing facilities of the Marshall Space Flight Center and the Michoud Production Facility.; Includes memorandum dated 15 Jan. 1963 from J. H. Chesteen, Chief, Engineering Planning Section. M-ME-SE.; Includes memorandum from J. H. Chesteen and N. E. Johansen to W. B. Edmiston and W. R. Kuers--subject: Integration Boeing-MSFC Manufacturing plan. December 18, 1962.
  • "Master plan for documentation management and use."

    Prepared for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. Accepted by V.C. Sorensen, Chief, Management Services Office. Management Services Project, RCA; SUMMARY: The objective of this study is to describe a comprehensive plan for the development and full utilization of methods and means to be employed in the years prior to 1976 for the effective acquisition, collection, storage, retrieval, distribution, and use of engineering documentation. Because of the violently changing state of the art of data acquisition, storage, and retrieval the description of the plan does not embrace the details of a total decade of phased change. Rather it describes actions that can and should be taken in the relatively near future, and proposes a continuing series of later studies to keep this plan current for the full decade.
  • "List of Saturn-Apollo Suppliers of Critical Hardware."

    A list of critical hardware from Saturn-Apollo Suppliers.
  • Letter to the Honorable James E. Webb, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Kurt R. Stehling.

    A letter to Jame E. Webb proposing that the first LEM that lands on the moon to be named after President Kennedy."
  • Letter to Honorable James E. Webb, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration from W. K. Wilson, Jr.

    Letter to James Webb from W. K. Wilson regarding one of his studies.
  • Letter to Mr. David L. Christensen.

    Letter from C.A. Perkins to David L. Christensen regarding a request for information regarding cryogenic pump and motor development
  • "The impact of manufacturing on design as related to accessibility."

    The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the need for accessibility in the assembly and maintenance of spacecraft. This is especially pertinent because accessibility to subsystems for replacement, repair, and maintenance has proven to be one of the more costly phases of preflight preparation. The most successful programs in this day and age have been when the design and manufacturing engineers work side by side around a mockup where solutions to the problems can be visually seen and solved, keeping in mind the assembly as related to accessibility. Therefore, it will be shown that in order to overcome the difficulties, designers should adapt a hard, fast ground rule that each unit must be accessible and individually removable without disturbing the other units.; Aeronautic and Space Engineering and Manufacturing Meeting, Los Angeles, Calif. Oct. 7 - 11, 1968.
  • "The instrumentation of space vehicle in connection with the successful Saturn flight tests."

    Presented on September 21, 1962, at the Eleventh Tagung Der Deutchen Raketen - Gesellschaft, Koblenz, West Germany. Instrumentation sf the Saturn space vehicle represents a considerable effort during the development phase, for proper design evaluatian of this new configuration, its propulsion system, and its structure and control characteristics, an unprecedented number of measurements are required to be carried onboard and to be recovered, These measurements are expected to work properly and to furnish the design engineer with information that is not available by ground testing,
  • "Instrument Unit Program Review : Saturn Instrument Unit."

    Handwritten names and phone numbers on the first page. Apollo / Saturn Team.
  • "Forecasting future military missions and their technological demands."

    Archive copy is a poor photocopy.; Article is from Defense Industry Bulletin, October 1959, pages 21 to 24.
  • "Communication from the President of the United States transmitting the report of the President's Materials Policy Commission, June 1952."

    Includes bibliographical references.; Original format: paperback book (42 pages); Cover title: Resources for freedom : the outlook of energy resources, volume III. Contains plans and analyses of potential future energy sources.
  • "Goddard patents: notes from von Braun to Slattery."

    Archive copy is a poor photocopy.; Handwritten in ink is: Ref: Goddard Patents (See D. Akens for final draft of letter).
  • "Evolution of the Saturn Booster."

    8 x 10 inch Black & White photograph. MS-G 103-63 Nov. 22, 63 is on the photograph. Displays the evolution of space-rocket designs side-by-side.
  • F-1 engine photograph.

    8 x 10 inch black and white photograph. Engine parts are labeled.
  • "Digital Simulation of an Aerospace Vehicle."

    The rapid development of computer technology and the creation of new engineering oriented languages has established that general purpose digital computers are now extremely suitable to perform simulation of large scale physical systems. With Aerospace Vehicle Simulation (AVS), an effort has been undertaken at MSFC to simulate continuous and discrete dynamics of an aerospace vehicle and its ground support equipment on a large digital computer. This simulation produces a copy of the physical vehicle configuration and its functions in the form of a large scale mathematical model in the computer. AVS will be an essential part of an integrated information system which can be used by several laboratories and offices at MSFC for the design, checkout, test, and management of aerospace vehicles.
  • Double seal insulation [drawing] photograph.

    8 x 10 inch black and white photograph.; Drawing contains information about the modified epoxy adhesive, aluminum film, mylar film, perforated phenolic honeycomb core, tank skin, mylar honeycomb core, polyurethane adhesive, weight and thermal conductivity.; Photo negative no. 651746 M-268.
  • "Dynamic Problems in Launch Vehicles and Spacecraft."

    Addresses improving spacecraft safety by resolving various known dynamic problems.
  • "Electrical support equipment" (ESE) [photograph].

    8 x 10 inch black and white photograph. A photograph of a workspace.
  • "D5-13197 manufacturing plan: AAP."

    This Manufacturing plan is prepared in response to the Apollo Applications Program request for proposal No. 1.1.; PURPOSE: The purpose of this document is to present a Boeing plan for the manufacturing effort required to provide hardware and support for the installation and checkout of Experiment Packages and related equipment in the Apollo Systems Modules.
  • "A decade of space progress, 1958 to 1968: General Electric Missile and Space Division offers a pictorial tribute to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."

    Excerpt from G.E. Challenge, Fall (Sept.) 1968, pages 13 to 25.

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