Thiokol / the Boeing / Rockwell / JSC / North American Rockwell / Space Task Group / Silveira Operational Requirements Donald C. Cheatham Manufacturing / Cost / Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory / Ames / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United States / Soviet Union / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Product Recall / Employment Change / Product Issues / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Texas A&M University / Kennedy Space Center / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute / Virginia Polytechnic Institute / Space Transportation System / Stevens Institute of Technology / Graaff facility / Goddard Space Flight Center / New York University / Mission Control Center / Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory / Marshall Space Flight Center / NASA Headquarters / University of California-Los Angeles / /
IndustryTerm
by-product / program management / required support technology / development tool / booster systems / chamber tory equipment / final product / aerospace contractor / vacuum chambers—among other devices / laboratory equipment / aerospace technology / orbiter contractor / radar equipment / space transportation system / development management / radiometric counting equipment / astronomical observation systems / customary launch site / control systems / electronics / pilot-controlled avionics systems / space transportation / photographic technology laboratory / conceptualizing the final product / /
Organization
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute / New York University / Systems Engineering Division / Apollo Command / office of Management and Budget / Polytechnic Institute / Dryden Flight Research Center / Navy / Shuttle Program Office / Mission Control Center / Texas A&M University / Air Force / MSC Landing and Recovery Division / Responsible / Stevens Institute of Technology / Center Johnson Space Center / Congress / Kennedy Space Center / United Nations / Lead Center / Shuttle mission / Project Office / Orbiter Project Office / University of California-Los Angeles / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Department of Defense / Langley Research Center / /
Person
Marshall Space / Alan M. Lovelace / Richard M. Nixon / Shuttle Budgets / Gemini / Vance Hartke / Aaron Cohen / Apollo Requested / Kenneth Rush / R. Wayne Young Milton / Jimmy Carter / James C. Fletcher / Andrew Hobokan / Edmund S. Muskie / Robert F. Thompson / Robert A. Frosch / William Proxmire / Linda Neuman Ezell / Chris Kraft / Dale D. Myers / Joseph P. Loftus / Caspar Weinberger / Walter Mondale / Christopher C. Kraft / Gerald Ford / /
PoliticalEvent
presidential elections / /
Position
President / director attempting / Service Module Manager / Chief / Deputy Secretary of Defense / engineer / launch and recovery operations manager / Associate Administrator / Executive / Administrator / representative / assistant / program director / booster manager / single contractor / manager of the Apollo Applications Program / Program Manager / acting administrator / Manager Aaron Cohen Deputy / Manager / orbiter contractor / secretary general / aerospace contractor / becoming manager / Assistant Director / Director / naval officer / associate director / assistant secretary / Deputy Manager Owen G. Morris Project Control Engineering / deputy manager / orbiter manager / assistant secretary general / head / /
Product
lifting body / Boeing 747 / Ariane / Shuttle / Lead Center Kraft / Titan / Space Shuttle Program / Taurus / Gemini / /
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