National Laboratories / Apollo Crew Safety Group / Los Alamos Laboratory / Space Task Group / Section Requirements Control Section Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation / USO / Space Company McDonnell Aircraft Corporation / Philco / Manned Space Flight / /
Country
Canada / United States / /
Event
Force Majeure / /
Facility
Kennedy Space Center / Los Alamos Laboratory / Space Transportation System / Parks College of St. Louis University / Patrick Air Force Base / Mission Control Center / Pearl Harbor Naval Station / /
IndustryTerm
communications network / disinfectant solutions / recovery hardware / aircraft carrier / attitude control systems / hardware contractors / Aircraft search requirements / long-term ground support systems / carrier deck / operations management / real-time communications systems / /
NaturalFeature
Coral Sea / Gulf of Mexico / /
Organization
Marshall Space Flight Center / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Gemini Project Office / Commander Task Force / Army / Navy / Shuttle Program Office / Mission Control Center / Task Force / Gemini Program Office / Pearl Harbor Naval Station / Landing and Recovery Division / Parks College / Flight Control Division / Air Force / National Weather Service / Philco Support MAC Support Flight Operations Directorate / Mercury mission / Flight Operations Directorate Organization / Patrick Air Force Base / Recovery Division for the Apollo Missions Early / 13th Air Task Force / Air Force Rescue Command / Kennedy Space Center / Flight Operations Division / MSC / Mission Planning and Analysis Division / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Department of Defense / Recovery Division / Flight Operations Division Organization / St. Louis University / Goddard Space Flight Center / Flight Control Division at MSC / /
Person
Marshall Space / James Webb / James A. Chamberlin / Clifford E. Charlesworth / Lyndon B. Johnson / N. Wayne Hale / Jr. / Bill Boyer / Landing / Tecwyn Roberts / Rinehart Brandt / John Kennedy / John Hodge / John S. Llewellyn / Robert F. Thompson / Jerome B. Hammack / Martin Luther King / Franklin Field / Max Faget / Charles W. Mathews / Gene Kranz / Chris Kraft / Thomas Paine / Neil Armstrong / George Mueller / Howard W. Tindall / R. Walter Cunningham / Jerry Hammack / Walter M. Schirra / Jr. / Christopher C. Kraft / Chris C. Critzos / Billy Huffman / Robert F. Kennedy / Curtis LeMay / Donn F. Eisele / Dennis Fielder / John Mayer / Howard Kyle / Alan Shepard / /
Position
President / flight director / General / Assistant Chief / head / Chief / associate administrator / contractor / Chief Assistant Chief / Administrator / McDonnell flight test engineer / assistant / combat photographer / astronaut / assistant to Charles W. Mathews / Acting Administrator / Assistant Director / Director / executive assistant / commander / Deputy Manager of Vehicles and Missions / /
Product
Shuttle / Apollo / C-130 / Gemini / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Virginia / /
PublishedMedium
the Eagle / /
Region
south Pacific / Gulf of Mexico / Mediterranean / /
CHAPTER 9: The Flight of Apollo The design and engineering of machines capable of taking humans into space evolved over time, and so too did the philosophy and procedures for operating those machines in a space environ