Product Issues / Person Communication and Meetings / Person Travel / /
Facility
Johnson Space Center / Stability Tunnel / Langley Research Center / Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory / Langley Spin Tunnel / Mission Control Center / NASA Headquarters / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / /
Holiday
thanksgiving / /
IndustryTerm
press site / quality control tool / launch site / spacecraft technology / human energy / final product / aerospace industries / computer electronics / manufacturing centers / flight systems / heat exchange devices / private contractors / knowledgeable and ingenious aerospace engineers / /
NaturalFeature
Wallops Island / Clear Lake / Cape Canaveral / /
Organization
Manned Spacecraft Center / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Army Ballistic Missile Agency / Mission Control Center / Mercury Project Office / Air Force / Atomic Energy Commission / Maxime Fagets’ Flight Systems Office / American Association for the Advancement of Science / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Johnson Space Center / Langley Research Center / /
Person
Alan B. Shepard / Alan B. Shepard / Jr. / Bob Piland / Robert G. Chilton / Rex Ray / Jim Chamberlin / Virgil Grissom / Wesley L. Hjornevik / John Glenn / Abe Silverstein / Paul Purser / George Low / Walter C. Williams / Robert Gilruth / John F. Kennedy / Dave Lang / Rod Rose / Max Faget / Charles J. Donlan / Kenneth S. Kleinknecht / Scott Carpenter / Chris Kraft / Christopher Kraft / Stuart Clark / Robert Rowe Gilruth / David Lang / Bob Gilruth / W. Hewitt Phillips / /
Position
President / director of Project Mercury / manager / contract representatives / management/contractor / head / scientist and the engineer / Director for Project Mercury / engineer / contractor / contracting officer / NACA engineer / subsystem manager / developmental engineer / administrator / representative / Chief of Finance / a deputy director of personnel / astronaut / personnel officer / manager / Carpenter / Colonel / technical assistant / leader / director / Assistant Director for Mercury / research engineer / Purser / /
Product
Saturn SA-1 / Apollo / B-70 / Little Joe Mercury capsule / Gemini / Mercury capsule / wiring / /
CHAPTER 4: Human Dimensions F ew years have been so critical to the American space program as those between roughly March 1962, when old STG and new center employees began relocating to temporary quarters in Houston, a