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... ROCKET EXPLORATION OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE''' by Boyd, R. L. F., and M. J. Seaton (eds) ''New York, 1954: Pergamon Press, Inc., 376 pages, $15. ...

... SOVIET STRATEGY IN THE NUCLEAR AGE''' by Garthoff, R. L. ''New York, 1958: Frederick A. Praeger, 283 pages, $1.85'' Included are chapters that deal ...

... INTO OTHER WORLDS''' by Green, R. L. ''New York, 1958: AbelardSchuman, 190 pages, $3.75'' This most interesting book traces the development ...

... SPACE RESEARCH BY ROCKET AND SATELLITE''' by Boyd, R. L. F. ''New York, 1960: Harper and Brothers, 128 pages, $2.25'' A handy little book ...

... in Virginia where the small missiles were being fired. Dr. Robert R. Gilruth was the man more or less in charge, even at ... Nobody really wanted to come. So I checked in with Mr. Wesley L. Hjornevik, Hjornevik. He was the personnel man for the Manned Spacecraft ... Hjornevik called me one day, and he was still down at the Farnsworth Chambers Building in Houston. He said, “I want you to get involved ...

... MOL Manned Orbiting Laboratory program going. They were in the leader's seat. But Robert R. Gilruth and Charlie Charles J. Donlan and their strategy, and the guys at Headquarters was ... on board. Charlie C. Allen came on board, Ted H. Skopinski came on board, Carl R. Huss came on board. So, starting in October '58, those next two years was growth ... L. Cooper's Jr. flight, where we were trying to get him for eighteen orbits up there. We were already in Houston Texas by then, so we were meeting in the Farnsworth ...

... their support was done by civil service people, whereas at White Sands Test Facility, the R&D Research and Development contractors had their systems, and they were responsible for them, but ... the Apollo contractors? '''Beckett:''' Oh, sure, sure. I worked very closely with all contractors. The R&D contractors that were responsible for the command and service module, which was North American ... ? '''Beckett:''' Oh yes. The fact is, most of them ended up in my branch. Gene L. Eugene Lundgren, Bill William M. Schroeder, Charlie Charles H. Provine, I think Warner, a guy ...

... makes their programs go. It's been a struggle. The good news was Mike Michael L. Coats has been our Director until very recently. He was a Naval Academy grad. He ... credit to Clay Morgan for pulling that information together. '''Ross:''' Yes, Clay Morgan is Barbara R. Morgan's husband. Barbara Morgan was our first educator astronaut. She was a back-up ... have a brand-new boss that's not only female but a former astronaut Ellen L. Ochoa . '''Ross:''' A former astronaut, yes. I knew her when she was starry-eyed and ...

... them did become astronauts. I knew Deke Donald K. Slayton at Edwards. I knew Leroy L. Gordon Cooper. We called him Leroy. He’s Gordo here. Tom Thomas P. Stafford, Frank ... this, and we had some great leaders like Walt Walter C. Williams and Bob Robert R. Gilruth. '''Rusnak:''' It’s certainly because of the hard work of people like yourself that ... thrust in flight at idle power for descent. What we needed because of the Shuttle L-over-D lift over drag going down, down, down, what we needed was high powers ...

... MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF ROCKET FLIGHT''' by Rosser, R. B., R. R. Newton and G. L. Gross ''New York, 1947: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 276 pages, $8.50'' Official final ...

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