San Antonio / Austin / College Station / Fort Worth / Langley / Edwards / El / Dallas / Shawnee / Pasadena / Slaton / Webster / /
Company
Sun Oil Company / Tenneco / Hernandez Engineering Inc. / Goodyear Tire / Eagle Engineering / Texas Instruments / Friendswood Development Corporation / Superior Oil / Champlin Oil / Davis Aerospace / McDonnell Douglas / Rubber / Ford Aerospace / Eagle Technical Services / Philco Ford / Martin Marietta / Scott Science and Technology Inc. / Exxon / Marathon Le Tourneau / Kentron International / Barrios Inc. / TRW / General Electric / Hayes International Corporation / Grumman / Collins Radio / Union Carbide / Barrios Technology Inc. / Lockheed Aircraft / RCA / Northrop Aviation / JSC / North American Rockwell / Singer-Link / Welch / General Dynamics / Space Industries Inc. / IBM / Plessy Radar Ltd. / Hi-Port Industries / LTV / Rockwell International / MYEs / Boeing / U.S. Food / Apollo / /
Country
United Kingdom / Cuba / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Diplomatic Relations / Employment Change / Business Partnership / Reorganization / Person Communication and Meetings / M&A / Funding / Person Travel / /
Facility
University of Houston / University of Florida / Space Station Freedom / Abilene Christian University / University of Oklahoma / University of California-Los Angeles / Texas A&M University / Kennedy Space Center / Port of Houston / Space Station / Dryden Flight Research Center / University of Texas / University of Texas-El Paso / Texas Medical Center / Rice University / /
IndustryTerm
oil embargo / aerospace contractors / communications network / aerospace experience / brother-in-law deal / computer software systems / aerospace firms / aerospace / technology sector / public services / program flight crew training / technology / defined services / electronics / oil boom / agribusiness areas / technology business enterprises / local contractor / oil patch / real estate / communications system / aerospace services / basic engineering services / oil prices / giant aerospace corporations / little domestic industrial technology / project management / Communications industries / production management / aerospace consumers / /
NaturalFeature
Cape Canaveral / Cocoa Beach / /
Organization
Rice University / Civil Service / Air Force / s Structures and Mechanics Division / Texas Space Commission / Republican Party / House Committee on Science and Astronautics / Facilities Development Department of the Exxon Baytown / Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries / White House / Abilene Christian University / Administration Directorate / s Texas Space Commission / Jimmy Carters administration / Richard M. Nixons administration / NASA Oversight Subcommittee / Texas A&M University / University of Houston / JSC Program Office / University of Texas / University of Oklahoma / Democratic Party / Apollo Project Office / Contracts Division / Reliability and Assurance Division / Guidance and Navigation Division / Texas Medical Center in Houston / Kennedy Space Center / federal government / Systems Engineering and Integration Division / U.S. Food and Drug Administration / University of California-Los Angeles / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / University of Florida / Development Directorate / Houston Chamber of Commerce / /
Person
Richard M. Nixon / John Young / Aaron Cohen / Albert Thomas / Burnell Bennett / Mary Davis / Emyre Barrios / Camino Real / William A. Bland / Miguel A. Hernandez / Jr. / Miguel (Mike) A. Hernandez / Jr. / Robert Gilruth / John F. Kennedy / Max Faget / R.E. Johnson / Robert E. Johnson / Hugh Davis / Joseph P. Loftus / Jerry Hammack / Ray Perkins / Donald M. (Mack) Robinson / Lyle Anderson / John Hanaway / Ronald Reagan / Carl Petersen / Art Dula / Charles Whynot / Thomas Chambers / Edward Kennedy / Gary Zoerner / Jimmy Carter / Fidel Castro / Edward Mitchell / Owen Morris / Olin E. Teague / Charles M. Duke / George Brown / Walter Mondale / Dave W. Lang / H. Ray Barrett / Dryden Flight / / /
Position
Business Manager / Vice President / Manager of Data Services / Chief / contractor / engineer and a cofounder / Representative / attorney / astronaut / Editor / Houston Mayor / independent consultant / deputy manager in the Shuttle orbiter office / local contractor / Manager of the lunar module / support contractor / special assistant / mayor / President / chief executive officer / aerospace engineer / head / engineer / supervisor / major Texas recipients / Program Manager / Project Manager / Chief Engineer / technical vice president / Manager for Apollo / Governor / Assistant Director / Chairman / Director / commander / technical vice presidents / academic and scientific leader / LM pilot / Manager of Data Services and then Business Manager / cofounder / /
Product
Packard HP57 / F-100 / F-103 / /
ProvinceOrState
California / Texas / Virginia / Oklahoma / Florida / /
CHAPTER 13: Space Business and JSC H ouston and the Texas of the 1980s became something different than they had been in the 1950s, in part because NASA and JSC gave them the opportunity to be different.