by Gene Kranz
for Gemini and Apollo
responsibilities of
security
Mission duration
Gemini and Apollo flights
increases in
record
Mission Planning and Analysis Division (MPAD)
Mission rules
regarding abort
Apollo 9
Apollo 11
for launch
regarding LM
redundancy
revised
techniques in developing
Mission Support Division
Mitchell
Molly Brown
Moon
Descartes Mountains
“far side” of
Fra Mauro
Hadley-Apennine region
Hadley Rille
Imbrium Basin
landing Americans on
Littrow
Mount Hadley
Oceanus Procellarum/Ocean of Storms
potential missions to far side of
in Russian space program
Taurus
see also Lunar exploration; etc.
Morris, Owen
Morse code
Moyers, Bill
MSFC
see Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
Muehlberger, William
Mueller, George
Myers, Dale
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Nance, Bob
NASA
see National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)
NASA Alumni League
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)
cancellation of final Apollo missions
civilian program
creation of
future of
hierarchy
joint venture with Russians
legal staff
management
news policy
as resource
time problem
see also Space Task Group
National Commission on Space
National Defense Education Act
National Space Act of 1958
Navigation systems
Nellis Air Force Base
Nieman
Nigeria tracking site
Nikolayev
Nixon, Richard
Noa (ship)
Norsworthy, Milt
North American Aviation (Co.)
Odyssey
O’Neill, Gerard
O’Neill, John
Operating procedures
Operations and procedures officer
Orange Team
Orbit trajection propagation
Orbital mechanics
Orbital missions
Osan Air Base
Osgood, Cathy
Pacific Airmotive
Page, George
Paine, Thomas
Parks, Oliver
Parks Air College
Passive thermal control (PTC)
maneuver
Patnesky, Andrew
Patrick AFB
Paules, Gran
Pavelka, Ed
Perssons, Al
Peters, Bill
Petrone, Rocco
Philco (Co.)
Phillips, Sam
Pioneering Mission for the Twenty-first-
Century America
Pioneering the Space Frontier
Plan X
Pneumatic tube (P-tube) system
Popovich, Pavel
Potassium intake
Powers, Shorty
Prescott, Warren
Presley, Will
Press
Press conferences
regarding Apollo
Apollo 11 mission
Press corps
Preston, G. Merritt
Public Affairs Office/officer
Puddy, Don
Quail flight test
Range safety officer (RSO)
Ransdell, Lois
Real time
Recovery teams
Red Team
Redstone missions
Redstone rocket
launches
MR-1
MR-3
Reed, Dave
Remote site teams
astronauts and
doctors
drilling
and EVA
Remote sites
CapComs
computer systems
Gemini missions
Rendezvous
Apollo missions
backup
Gemini missions
practicing
priority in space program
by Russians
Renick, Gary
Retropack
Retro controller (RETRO)
Retrofire
Rickover, Hyman
Risk
Risk judgment
Roberts, Tecwyn (Tec)
Rockets
failures
high-altitude research
Roll-and-pitch program
Roosa, Stu
Rose, Rodney
Rose Knot Victor tracking ship
Sabre jet
Saturn rockets
Saturn rockets
guidance and computer system
problems with
testing
Saturn V rocket
Saultz, Jim
Saxe, Ira
Saylor, Ralph
Schirra, Wally
Apollo 7
first manned CSM mission
Gemini 6
Mercury mission
Schmitt, Jack
Apollo 17
Schneider, William
Schweickart, Rusty
Science and Applications Directorate
Scientists
Scott, Dave
Apollo 9
Apollo 15
field geology trip
Gemini 8
Scott, Gary
Sealab
See, Elliott
Service module
Apollo 13
redesign of
Service propulsion system (SPS)
Shaffer, Phil
Shea, Joe
Shepard, Alan
Apollo 14
Cape CapCom
first manned mission
MCC
MR-3
walk on Moon
Sigma 7
Silver, Lee
Silver Team
Simpkinson, Scott
SimSup (simulation supervisor)
Apollo 11
MA-3
Simulation technology
Simulations
Apollo 9
Apollo 11
Gemini 7
Gemini 76
launch
Singing Wheel
Sjoberg, Sigurd
Skylab
Slayton, Donald K. (Deke)
and Apollo 13 crisis
Apollo program
coordinator of astronaut corps
irregular heartbeat
and remote site assignments
responsibilities of
Sousa, John Philip
Soviet Union
first space walk
joint missions (planned)
lead in space race
manned missions
record for endurance in space
space program
space race
Sputnik launch
Soyuz missions
Space hardware
Space program
cuts in
death in
expanding
failures in
future
military resources in
picketed
rendezvous priority in
success of
Space race
Space records (U.S.)
Space Shuttle
Space Task Grou
p
engineers based at
growth of
Kranz joined
original members of
Space walk
see also EVA (extravehicular activity)
Spacecraft
television broadcasts from
Spacecraft Research Division
Spacecraft systems analysis
Spaceflight
see also Manned spaceflight
Spaceship Earth
SPAN (spacecraft analysis) team
Spence Air Base
Spider monkeys
Sputnik
Stafford, Tom
Apollo 10
Gemini 6
Gemini 9
Stay NoStay decisions
Stokes, Jim
Stored program commands (SPC)
Stough, Chuck
Stoval, Bill
Surveyor 3
Swigert, Jack
Systems controllers
Systems handbooks
Tainan Air Base
Tananarive site
Team building
Team chemistry
Teamwork
in crisis
space/ground
Technology
advancing
communications
failure of
fuel cell
simulation
tradeoffs in
Test and checkout procedure (TCP)
Test pilots
astronauts
Testing
all-up approach to
high-risk
Texas CapCom
Thomas, Albert
Thomas, Dylan
Thompson, Bob
Thompson, Floyd
Thorson, Dick
Thrust vector control (TVC)
Tiger Team
Tindall, Bill
“Tindallgrams”
Titan rockets
Titan II rocket
Titov, Gherman
Tomberlin, Jim
Tracking network voice system
Tracking ships
Tracking sites/stations
Africa
data transmission
digital systems
preparation for missions
Project Mercury
Southern Hemisphere
standard time for
Trans-Earth coast (TEC)
Trans-Earth injection (TEI)
Translunar coast (TLC)
Translunar injection (TLI)
Trench, The
Apollo 8
Apollo 11
Apollo 12
Apollo 13
Apollo 14
Apollo 16
Apollo 17
Apollo missions
Apollo simulations
“Captain Refsmmat”
Gemini 6
Gemini 8
Lunney ran
Trust
UHF-6 test
United States
State Department
University of California, Santa Cruz
Unmanned missions
Urey, Harold
USS Mason
V-2 rocket
Van Renssalaer
Vietnam War
Virtual reality
von Braun, Wernher
Von Ehrenfried, Manfred (Dutch)
Vostok spacecraft
Wallops Island Station
Ward, Doug
Weather decisions/delays
Webb, James
Western Electric
Whifferdills
White, Ed
Apollo 1
death of
EVA
White, Ted
White Sands
White Team
Apollo 5
Apollo 11
Apollo 13
Apollo 15
Apollo 16
Apollo 17
Apollo missions
Gemini missions
Lewis assumed command of
Williams, C. C.
Williams, John
Williams, Walt
Mercury-Atlas 6
MR-3
Willoughby, Buck
Windler, Milt
Wives
Women in space program
Worden, Al,
Workaround procedures
World War I
World War II
X-15 rocket-powered aircraft
X mission
X-1 project
Yankee Clipper
Yardley, John
Yeager, Chuck
Young, John
Apollo 16
Zanzibar tracking site
closed
Zero gravity
Zero Launch projects
Zieglschmid, John
Zielinski, Anthony (Zeke)