Houston / Huntsville / Toronto / Washington / Vienna / Cranfield / New London / Cambridge / Beltsville / Manchester / Cleveland / New York / Enderlin / Calgary / /
Company
Electrical Products Research Company / Langley Laboratory / A.V. Roe Corporation / AVRO Aircraft Ltd. / Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory / Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory / Vega Airlines / Olin / Patterson / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Lewis Laboratory / Langley Aeronautical Laboratory / Navy’s Underwater Sound Laboratories / Gilruth / Paramount Pictures / Space Task Group / General Dynamics / Kraft / McDonnell Aircraft Corporation / Western Electric / NACA / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United Kingdom / Canada / Germany / Austria / United States / /
Event
Person Travel / Person Communication and Meetings / M&A / Product Issues / Name Change / Product Recall / Employment Change / Labor Issues / /
Facility
Cranfield Institute of Technology / University Division / Langley Research Center / Langley Laboratory / Langley Aeronautical Laboratory / Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory / Lewis Laboratory / College of Aeronautics / NASA Headquarters / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory / Yale University / Case Institute of Technology / Lewis Center / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center / University of Alberta / /
Wallops Island / Cape Canaveral / Chesapeake Bay / /
Organization
Conservative Party / Prime Minister John Deifenbaker’s government / Manned Spacecraft Center / College of Aeronautics / University of Alberta / Army Ballistic Missile Agency / Army / House Select Committee on Aeronautics and Space Exploration / Army’s Advanced Research Projects Agency / Advanced Research Projects Agency / Ballistic Missile Division / Lewis Research Center / Arrow / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Liberal government / Air Force / Eisenhower administration / STG / Yale University / Liberal Party / Scientific Advisory Board / Subcommittee on Space Problems and Life Sciences / Subcommittee on Scientific Research and Development / Air Force’s Ballistic Missile Division / British Interplanetary Society / Navy / Government of Canada / House Committee on Science and Aeronautics / Institute of Technology / Senate Select Committee on Space and Astronautics / Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston / Atomic Energy Commission / Subcommittee on International Cooperation / Congress / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Columbia University Division of War Research / Goddard Space Flight Center / /
Person
Kimble Johnson / Jerome B. (FRD) Hatley / William J. (IRD) Chilton / Canaveral / Overton Brooks / Warren North / Hugh Dryden / Charles H. Zimmerman / Paul Purser / Jack C. (PARD) Hicks / Robert G. (FRD) Donlan / Victor L. Anfuso / Shirley (Files) Zimmerman / Charles Donlan / Bryan Erb / Scott Simpkinson / B.F. Sisk / John B. (PARD) Livesay / Rod Rose / Max Faget / T. Keith Glennan / Charles W. Mathews / John W. McCormack / Shirley (Steno) Heberlig / John P. (FRD) Muhly / Charles J. (OAD) Faget / Melvin S. (Structures) Bland / James R. Killian / Merritt Preston / Wesley Hjornevik / Bob Gilruth / Robert R. (OAD) Hammack / James Webb / Lyndon B. Johnson / Henry Erb / Arthur C. Clarke / George P. Miller / Norma L. (Files) Lowe / Floyd Thompson / Andre Meyer / George Lewis / Styles Bridges / Jim Chamberlin / S.A. Batdorf / Alan B. (PARD) Kolenkiewicz / Rodney Rose / Abe Silverstein / John Deifenbaker / George Low / Hugh L. Dryden / Charles W. (FRD) Mayer / R. Bryan Erb / Robert R. Gilruth / Roy Johnson / Lyndon Johnson Lyndon Johnson / Sherwood Butler / Paul D. (FSRD) Watkins / Dwight D. Eisenhower / /
Position
Captain / representative / first Administrator / Scientific Advisor / astronaut / speaker / mechanical engineer / Deputy Administrator / Associate Director / Director Subject / business and administrative manager / Special Assistant / Purser / President / director of Project Mercury / medical advisors / Engineer / center director / science fiction author / first manned messenger / procurement officer / deputy assistant to Max Faget / project engineer for the design and construction / Congressman / Administrator / cosmonaut / prominent political leader / research scientist / advisors / Project Manager / Manager While Gilruth / brilliant engineer / Director / veteran flight researcher / member / director of Center / /
Product
STG / The capsule / Mercury capsule / Arrow / /
ProvinceOrState
Louisiana / California / Alberta / Texas / Massachusetts / Virginia / Alabama / North Dakota / Connecticut / Maryland / /
Technology
fluid dynamics / heat transfer / thermodynamics / /
CHAPTER 2: The Commitment to Space “I can recall watching the sunlight reflect off of Sputnik as it passed over my home on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia,” Dr. Robert R. Gilruth recalled to the audience at the Sixt