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... set up at the Mercury Control Center, which was a contract to NASA under Western Electric, as I recall, they used the support contractors here at Patrick, which were Pan American ... American and RCA provided the people to operate the control center, Mercury Control Center. Western Electric with Bendix field engineering provided the services at the various sites around the world. As ... Air Force three-star general and a good friend of mine whose name—Forrest Lt.Gen. Forrest S. McCartney. He wanted the job, and Fletcher asked me what I knew about ...

... . Principal contractors immediately affected would be Boeing Co., Chrysler Corp., IBM Corp., and General Electric Co. Dr. von Braun said this was "a continuation of the Marshall policy to ... OSR Life Sciences Directorate, was presented Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal by Maj. Gen. Don R. Ostrander, OAR Commander. ''(OAR Release 2-64-1)'' Martin Marietta Corp. received ...

... . Loren D. Carlson, Univ. of California School of Medicine; Dr. Howard W. Emmons, Harvard Univ.; Gen. James Ferguson, Commander of AFSC; Dr. Nicholas J. Hoff, Head of Stanford Univ. Dept. of ... Astronautics; Dr. Hans W. Liepmann, Cal Tech; Dr. John G. Linvill, Head of Stanford Univ. Electrical Engineering Dept.; Matthias E. Lukens, Deputy Executive Director of Port of New York Authority; Dr ...

... contract extension for material, facilities, manpower and equipment for XB-70 flight operations, and General Electric Co. was awarded $1,957,323 extension for maintenance of XB-70 engines. Both ... who became Director of Installation Support. ''(KSC Release KSC-331-68)'' White House announced that Gen. William F. McKee ''(USAF, Ret.)'' had submitted his resignation as head of FAA, effective ...

... first practical application of space electric power systems, which have been under de­velopment over the past 10 years, may well be found in our second gen­eration orbital space station program ... systems impervious to destruction by man-made radiation. Devices were made of amorphous materials whose electrical properties differed from transistor materials. Balance of energy forces within amorphous glasses was such that ...

... any data gathered from meteorological satellites. ''(AP, NYT, 10/29/64, 58)'' Brig. Gen. Benjamin G. Holzman ''(SAF, Ret.)'' was sworn in by Dr. Raymond L. Bisplinghoff ... Advanced communications satellite system. "Navigation satellite system. "Data collection satellites. "Nuclear power. "Nuclear propulsion. "Electric propulsion." Dr. Newell added: "The Space Science Board of the National Academy ...

... Diego's new International Aerospace Hall of Fame were Scott Crossfield , Charles A. Lindbergh , Gen. James H. Doolittle, Astronauts John H. Glenn and Alan B. Shepard , Dr. Wernher von ... extend the fuel resources of the United States by several hundred years and also produce electricity economically, he said. Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, testified ...

... Germany's Federal Ministry for Scientific Research (BMWF) signed Memorandum of Understanding for study of electric fields in the upper atmosphere. NASA would furnish five Nike-Apache sounding rockets for launch ... return to private industry but would continue to serve as part-time consultant to NASA; Gen. Jacob M. Smart (USAF, Ret.) succeeded Kerr in addition to continuing to serve as Special ...

... aircraft.” ‘‘(Coughlin, M&R, 3/14/66, 54)’’ NASA had selected Fairchild Hiller, General Electric Co., and Lockheed Aircraft Corp. for negotiation of contracts totaling $450,000 for parallel ... instrumentation, and the expansion of technical fields such as cryogenics and microelectronics,” AFSC Commander Gen. Bernard A. Schriever told a Rotary Club meeting in Honolulu. He cited in ...

... equally impressed and that they've applauded the progress that this flight indicates for us." Gen. Phillips described Apollo 9 mission as "far less spectacular than Apollo 8 , but . . . more ... design, with decision expected in May 1969. ''(NASA Release 69-4)'' Penn Central Railroad began electric-powered Metroliner service that would cut traveling time of 226-mi New York-Washington trip ...

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