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"The TV system for the Apollo telescope mount."

Focuses on the construction and future use of the Apollo space telescope. The components described in this paper except for those listed otherwise were designed by the Space Support Division of Sperry Rand Corporation to specifications established by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Appreciation is extended to MSFC for permission to publish this paper and for data and help provided for its preparation.

"Sperry Rand monthly progress report for July, 1969."

The following pages contain reports for each of the individual contract appendices covering technical progress and accomplishments, related problems, and staffing progress. The report of manhours expended against each appendix by schedule order is being submitted as a part of the financial management report.

"Earth Orbital Workshop Capabilities Brochure."

A brochure designed to depict a competence and capability in the area of large earth-orbital workshops.

"Engineering Capabilities Presentation."

This Engineering Capabilities Presentation lists the competence and capability that has been demonstrated by the Space Support Division of Sperry Rand Corporation while fulfilling contractual commitments in the aerospace industry. This is a preliminary presentation; the preparation of a complete capabilities history of the division is currently in the developmental stage. The Capabilities Experience Summary is comprised of ten categories. e.g. Category 1 - Aeronautics, etc. The capabilities reported herein were performed by the Space Support Division under Contract NAS8-20055 to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, George C. Marshall Flight Center, Astrionics Laboratory, Huntsville, Alabama.

"Sperry Rand Earth Orbital Workshop Capabilities" Brochure.

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"Saturn I flight test evaluation."

As this paper is being written, the Saturn I flight test program includes five flights launched between October, 1961 and January, 1964. All five fiights were complete successes, both in achieving all major test missions and in obtaining an unprecedented volume of system performance data for flight analysis.

Huntsville Promotional Booklet, 1908

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Letter to Colonel John C. Nickerson, Jr. from John J. Sparkman.

Sparkman thanks Nickerson for sending a booklet he had requested. He also requests Nickerson to send information on a long range flight conducted by ABMA directly to Erik Bergaust for an interview Bergaust did on Sparkman.

Spaco, Inc. Annual Report, 1965.

"Saturn IB SA-217 reference launch vehicle."

This document contains a definition of a reference Saturn IB launch vehicle designated SA-217. The Saturn IB SA-217 is a projected reference vehicle, based on Saturn IB SA-212, incorporating the latest proposed product improvements. The two-stage payload capability of this vehicle to a 100-nautical-mile circular orbit is 44,965 pounds. The Saturn IB SA-217 launch vehicle is to be used as the baseline vehicle for advanced studies requiring the use of the standard or modified Saturn IB launch vehicle. This vehicle definition does not necessarily represent approved changes to any specific vehicle. This document supersedes the Saturn IB SA-213 reference Launch Vehicle, described in memorandum R-P&VE-DIR-65-92.

The Post-Apollo Space Program: Directions for the Future.

The document is a Space Task Group report to the president. Pages 8, 18, 26, 27 of the document are missing.

<i>Space Journal</i>, vol. 2, no. 2, December 1959.

Space Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, December 1959.

In this issue, articles focus heavily on the exploration of space and the particulars of human activities in space, including "the space man's food," research on how weightlessness affects the human body, and the lack of laws governing space. Also included is a profile of Roy Marquardt, "the ramjet man" and founder of Marquardt Aircraft Company. This is the final published issue of Space Journal.