San Francisco / Houston / Louisiana Shreveport / Corpus Christi / Washington / Langley / St. Louis / Boston / Palo Alto / Jacksonville / Norfolk / Victoria / Tampa / Hampton / Newport News / Washington / D.C. / Little Rock / Bogalusa / Harlingen / New Orleans / San Diego / /
Company
Humble Oil Company / Manned Lunar Landing Task Group / Joske / Olin / Environmental Testing Laboratory / U.S.A. T / Ames / Space Task Group / Brown & Root / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Travel / Product Recall / Employment Change / Product Issues / Natural Disaster / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
University of Houston / High Speed Flight Station / Barksdale Air Force Base / Gulfgate Shopping Center / Green Cove Springs Naval Station / West Mansion / Langley Research Center / Dixon Gun Plant / Joske’s Department Store / Hobby Airport / Michoud Plant / Support Facility / NASA Headquarters / Manned Spacecraft Center / FAA Airport / Naval Air Station / Ellington Air Force Base / San Jacinto Ordnance Depot / Benicia Ordnance Depot / Camp Elliott / Rich Building / Lewis Research Center / Houston International Airport / Ames Research Center / MacDill Air Force Base / Rice University / /
Holiday
Corpus Christi Day / /
IndustryTerm
boundless energy / food / deep water transportation / paint / possible site / water transportation / chemical facilities / Telephone lines / /
Movie
Strategic Air Command / /
NaturalFeature
Wallops Island / Houston channel / Cape Canaveral / Mississippi River / Clear Lake / /
Organization
Marshall Space Flight Center / Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight / Manned Spacecraft Center / Rice University / Space Council / Lundin Committee / Air Force / Federal Aviation Administration / House Appropriations Subcommittee / House Committee on Science and Astronautics / Policy Planning Board / Johnson’s Space Council / Strategic Air Command / House of Representatives / Small Business Administration / House Appropriations Committee / Equipment Evaluation Laboratory / office of Manned Space Flight / Better Business Bureau / University of Houston / Public Affairs Office / Congress / Executive Office / Steering Committee for Manned Space Flight / Facilities Engineering Division for Goddard / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Houston Chamber of Commerce / Goddard Space Flight Center / Langley Research Center / office of Space Flight Programs / /
Person
Margaret Chase Smith / Ben Gillespie / Kenneth Pitzer / Brainerd Holmes / John Vincent / G. Merritt Preston / Kennedy / Albert Thomas / Yuri Gagarin / Carey Croneis / Hugh Dryden / Paul Purser / Harry Goett / Robert Gilruth / Stuart Symington / John F. Parsons / Congressmen Albert Thomas / Walter Williams / Administrators James Webb / Max Faget / T. Keith Glennan / John M. Parsons / Ernest O. Pearson / Jr. / Bob Casey / Volpe / Sam Rayburn / Robert Peck / Wesley Hjornevik / Bob Gilruth / George Miller / I. Edward Campagna / Morgan Davis / Grace Winn / Marshall Space / James Webb / George R. Brown / Lyndon B. Johnson / Alan B. Shepard / Jr. / Philip Miller / Paul Dembling / Al Seipert / Stuart Clarke / Bruce T. Lundin / Russell F. Gustke / Marty Byrnes / Martin A. Byrnes / Abe Silverstein / Ed Campagna / Luther Turner / George Low / Franklin Phillips / Teague / Burney Goodwin / George Brown / John Powers / Stuart Clark / Eugene Horton / Jeff Davis / Ralph E. Ulmer / Addison M. Rothrock / /
Position
Vice President / neatly fit head / acting head / Chancellor / General / Chief / Manager / Speaker / engineering manager / acting president / personal assistant / Vice President and head / Board Chairman / Purser / President / head / Brigadier General / assistant director for manned satellites / Goddard director / assistant to Administrator James Webb / counsel / Associate Director for Administration / construction engineer for the STG / Governor / chairman / director / Director for Administration / acting director of Goddard / head of personnel / facilities specialist / base commander Brigadier / Mercury Astronaut / Glennan’s personal assistant / commander / /
Product
Parker / /
ProvinceOrState
Louisiana / California / Texas / Harris County / Massachusetts / Arkansas / Virginia / Missouri / Rhode Island / Mississippi / Victoria / Florida / /
CHAPTER 3: Houston - Texas - U.S.A. T he Space Task Group began as a semiautonomous field unit, an essentially technical engineering organization highly dependent on the Langley Research Center and NASA