Boeing Aerospace Company
General Electric Company
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Accident insurance
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Merritt Island (Fla.)
Brevard County (Fla.)
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville (Ala.)
Madison County (Ala.)
This pamphlet provides information about the General Electric Company's Apollo Support Department. This information includes details about the Apollo Support Department's mission and sites, individual examples of "What ASD'ers do" at places like the Kennedy Space Center and the Merritt Island Launch Area, details on the General Electric Company's competitor the Boeing Company, Huntsville and its campus, individual "ASD People," and personal accident insurance.
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Pamphlets
Still Image
Text
"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."
Saturn project
Manned space flight
Space flight
Excerpt from G.E. Challenge, Fall (Sept.) 1968, pages 13 to 25.
Articles
Apollo Support Program: Phase 1: Apollo Terminology Standards Final Study Report.
Manned space flight--Terminology
Project Apollo (U.S.)
Project Apollo (U.S.)--Terminology
Saturn Project (U.S.)
From the abstract: "This report concludes the Phase 1 study activities of the requirements for terminology standardization of the Apollo Integration Support Program. A review is made of the studies conducted and the findings resulting from these activities. Conclusions are drawn and recommendations are made for a proposed Apollo Terminology Handbook. An implementation plan for producing and maintaining an Apollo Terminology Handbook is included. A sample of such a terminology handbook is produced as Part 2 of this report."
General Electric Company. Defense Systems Department.
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Reports
Space race
Space flight to the moon
Astronautics--United States
Astronautics--Soviet Union
Interview
Partial article discussing the United States' victories in the space-race over Russia.
General Electric Company. Missile and Space Division
Challenge G. E.
Interviews
Interview with Dr. Wernher von Braun; Challenge, Winter(Dec) 1962, volume 1, number 3
Acceptance Checkout Equipment - Spacecraft (ACE-S/C) news release.
Space vehicles
Automatic test equipment
Test equipment
Space vehicle checkout program
General Electric Corporation
Press releases
"General Electric/MTSD's First Five Years as Prime NASA Support Contractor at Mississippi Test Facility, Bay St. Louis, Miss."
Government contractors--United States
Mississippi Test Facility
Rocket test facilities
A handwritten note on the title page notes that the document was received from Earl F. Rodriguez, General Electric Co., MTSD in Bay St. Louis. Includes a chronology of General Electric activity in south Mississippi.
Histories (literary works)
"Spacecraft television ground data handling system."
Astronautics
Photo mapping
Spacecraft
Television transmission
Data processing
A design report which displays and explains how the Spacecraft Television Ground Handling System functions, is designed and what it might be used for in the future.
General Precision, Inc. Link Division
Design Reports
History
Letter vouching for the expertise and past accomplishments of Werner K. Gengelbach
Gengelbach, Werner K.
Resumes
Directory Chart : NASA/MSFC Manager's Office.
Diagram
Organizational chart of NASA/MSFC manager's office.
North American Rockwell Corporation. Space Division
Organizational Charts
"University and research institute contracts awarded by MSFC."
Contracts
Research
This is a list of contract numbers, contractor, subject and RNT contact.
George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
Lists
Abbreviated timeline of the Apollo 11 mission.
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft)
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.
Memorandums
Map of completed and proposed Apollo moon landing sites.
Lunar landing sites
Moon--Exploration
The map shows landing locations on the moon's surface, including proposed landing sites of the cancelled Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 missions. This map was created as part of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) Project.
Maps
Two astronauts driving a test model of the lunar roving vehicle (LRV).
Lunar surface vehicles
Developed by Marshall Space Flight Center and built by Boeing, the LRV was an electric vehicle used to explore the Moon's surface during the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions.
Photographs
"Saturn I: The First Generation of Heavy Launch Vehicles Designed for Peaceful Exploration of Space."
Rocket engines
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.
Leaflets
"SkyLab: An Oral History of America's First Space Station."
Skylab Program
Von Braun Symposium
Skylab 30th anniversary
This video was released in conjunction with Skylab's 30th anniversary in 2003. It contains video footage from the Skylab program as well as interviews with those associated with the program.
Moving Image
Wernher and Maria von Braun at a cocktail party given for the Alabama legislature.
Von Braun, Maria
Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977
Alabama. Legislature
Alabama--Politics and government
Cocktail parties
A note on the back of the photo reads, "Cocktail Party for legislature at time Huntsville wanted Research Park & Institute for university." From left to right: Mrs. Foster Haley, Mrs. Milton Cummings, Wernher von Braun, Maria von Braun, Roscoe Roberts, Ryan DeGraffenried, and Milton Cummings.
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"Skylab: An Adventure in Science and Photography."
Apollo Telescope Mount
Space photography
This leaflet gives an overview of types of film and camera systems being used in photography and observations on Skylab, the first space station launched by the United States.
William A. Schulze and Hans Palaoro at Marshall Space Flight Center.
Palaoro, Hans
Schulze, William August
Aeronautical engineers
The bulletin board behind Schulze reads "Vehicle Engineering Branch." Palaoro was the head of the Vehicle Systems Engineering Branch of the Structures and Mechanics Division at Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Still image
Launch vehicles (Astronautics)
Space vehicles--Landing--Moon
This flier highlights Marshall Space Flight Center's role in the lunar landing and illustrates each step of a successful mission, from liftoff at Kennedy Space Center to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Fliers