Houston / Kamloops / Washington / Tennarive / Dallas / Montreal / Washington / D.C. / Cape Canaveral / Perth / Baltimore / /
Company
Gemini / Guaymas / Ryan Aeronautical Company / AVRO Aircraft Ltd. / Martin Baker Ltd. / Federal Aircraft Ltd. / Grumman Aircraft Corporation / Coastal / IBM / Martin Company / AT&T / McDonnell Aircraft Corporation / North American Aviation / National Broadcasting Company / anti-American / Communist / Philco / Goodyear Aircraft Corporation / /
Continent
America / South America / /
Country
United Kingdom / Mexico / Nigeria / Madagascar / Spain / Bermuda / Japan / Canada / Australia / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Employment Change / Business Partnership / Person Travel / Labor Issues / Reorganization / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Cape control center / American Institute / Philco’s Western Development Laboratory / Goddard Space Flight Center / Mercury control center / Mission Control Center / Gemini Mission Control Center / Hay-Adams Hotel / NASA Headquarters / Imperial College of Science / Bermuda station / Kennedy Space Center / University of Toronto / /
IndustryTerm
associate contractors / survival equipment / communications network / associate contractor / legislation establishing carrier tariffs / around-the-world communications network / missile site / ancillary hardware / computer integration systems / paraglider systems / voice communications / manned spacecraft network / crew systems / communications satellites / subsystems management / communications problems / flight computer systems / prime manufacturer / transportation / communications responsibility / launch site / public relations activities / communications / computer technology / real-time communications / electronic systems / serious hemispheric communications network / electronics gear / satellite program / propulsion systems / radar defense systems / communications systems / public relations / /
NaturalFeature
Indies / cape Canaveral / cape STG / Woomera Mountain Range / Clear Lake / /
Organization
Engineering and Development Division / Max Faget’s Flight Systems Division / Guidance and Control Division / Manned Spacecraft Center / Operations Division / Engineering and Development Directorate / Royal Canadian Air Force / Air Force / Tracking and Ground Instrumentation Unit of the STG / NASA MSC / Department of State / Ground Systems Project Office / Flight Operations Division / University of Toronto / Johnson Space Center / Preflight Division / AVRO-Arrow / Gemini Project Office / Engineering Division / Kennedy Space Flight Center / North American Air Defense Command / Western Development Laboratory / MSC Engineering Division / STG Operations Division / Chamberlin’s Gemini Project Office / Texas-style / Public Affairs Office / Congress / Kennedy Space Center / Flight Crew Operations Division / Imperial College of Science and Technology in London / American Institute of Aeronautics / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Department of Defense / Goddard Space Flight Center / Spacecraft Technology Division / /
Person
James A. Chamberlin / John D. Hodge / Alex P. Nagy / Bill Boyer / G. Merritt Preston / Tecwyn Roberts / John Glenn / Robert Gilruth / Fred Mathews / Clark Ruse / Henry Pohl / Roy Alford / Walter Williams / Max Faget / Charles W. Mathews / Roy Neil / James C. Elms / Robert C. Seamans / Dennis Fielder / Bob Gilruth / Alan Shepard / James Webb / Lyndon B. Johnson / Paul Haney / Jim Chamberlin / Chuck Mathews / Barton Hacker / Abe Silverstein / Olin E. Teague / Joe Loftus / George Vogel / Tec Roberts / L. Gordon Cooper / Kenneth E. Kleinknecht / Gene Kranz / Chris Kraft / Barry Graves / Bob Chilton / Paul Vavra / James Grimwood / Howard Kyle / Rodney G. Rose / /
Position
Assistant Director for Information and Control Systems with Paul Vavra / advisor / director of public affairs / Vice President / assistant city manager / acting head / Chief / contractor / information officer / associate contractor / astronaut / Secretary of Defense / military governor / special assistant / Purser / smart engineer / Assistant Director for Operations / head / Historian / Administrator / center engineer / administrative officer / Senior Engineering Advisor / project manager / good manager / deputy director / Director / Porter / /
CHAPTER 5: Gemini: On Managing Spaceflight “T he first phase of the Nation’s second manned space program began like a storybook success” on Saturday, April 8, 1964, when an unmanned, partly instrumented Gemini ca