Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Eagle Engineering / Singer Company / Space Task Group / Space Services Inc. / McDonnell Douglas / Satellite Business Systems / British Aerospace Corporation for Zentral Gesellschaft VFW / Hughes Aircraft Company / Boeing / Ames / Shuttle / /
Continent
America / /
Country
Canada / United States / Columbia / /
Event
Force Majeure / Person Travel / Person Communication and Meetings / Business Partnership / Environmental Issue / /
Facility
Kennedy Space Center / University of Texas / Johns Hopkins Hospital / Mississippi Test Facility / Control Center / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Georgia Institute of Technology / Lewis Research Center / Goddard Space Flight Center / Mission Control Center / /
IndustryTerm
transportation operator / network interface processor / transportation systems / real-time information coming / machinery / computer software problems / information systems / aerospace vehicle / computer technology / energy / issues involving flight systems / computer software / satellite launches / telemetry systems / oil / computer hardware / redundant systems / external hardware / communications satellites / ground support systems / control systems / electronics / public relations / flight control systems / transportation system / /
NaturalFeature
Daytona Beach / /
Organization
Marshall Space Flight Center / Canadian Government / STS-5 mission / European Space Agency / Shuttle Program Office / Mission Control Center / Johns Hopkins Hospital / Lewis Research Center / STS-2 mission / US Federal Reserve / Flight Director’s Office / Air Force / University of Texas / Spacelab Program Office / Payload Integration Office / House Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications / Apollo / office of Space and Terrestrial Applications / Congress / Kennedy Space Center / Executive Office / Systems Engineering and Integration Division / STS Operations Program Office / Georgia Institute of Technology / Shuttle Payload Integration and Development Program Office / Shuttle mission / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Control Center / Department of Defense / Johnson Space Center / Goddard Space Flight Center / /
Person
Marshall Space / Eugene Kranz / Thomas Stafford / Melvin Kranzberg / Wayne Hale / Owen Morris / Lunney / Charles Donlan / John W. Young / Max Faget / Joe H. Engle / Robert L. Crippen / Chris Kraft / Joseph P. Allen / David Hannah / Ronald Reagan / Rodney G. Rose / /
Position
Shuttle flight director / craft tail-forward / President / technical advisors / cofounder / General / aeronautical engineer / head / Chief / designer / Professor of History of Technology / astronaut / commander / command module pilot / /
CHAPTER 14: Aspects of Shuttle Development A lthough the Shuttle flights, beginning with the four orbital test flights in 1981 and 1982, took Americans back into space after an absence of 6 years, the ground rules