Space Technology Laboratories / General Electric / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Transcontinental Air Transport / Collins Radio / Convair / Sperry Rand Corporation / Garrett Corporation / Space Task Group / General Dynamics / Honeywell Incorporated / McDonnell Aircraft Company / North American Rockwell Corporation / Pratt and Whitney / Curtiss Flying Service / Rockwell International Corporation / AVCO Corporation / Lockheed / Martin Company / Rockwell-Standard Corporation / General Motors / Northrop Corporation / MSC / Douglas Aircraft / General Aviation Corporation / Eastern Airlines / Grumman Corporation / Lunar Mission Steering Group / Curtiss Aeroplane / Marquardt Corporation / Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor / Grumman Aircraft / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United Kingdom / Soviet Union / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Travel / Reorganization / Person Communication and Meetings / Business Partnership / M&A / /
Facility
Langley Research Center / Chamberlin Hotel / Marshall Space Flight Center / NASA Headquarters / /
IndustryTerm
Program management / prime contractor / close communications / basic communications problem / weapons systems / projection equipment / design/manufacturing relationship / prospective contractors / automotive parts manufacturer / aerospace industry / airline operations / aerospace / spacecraft telecommunications systems / propulsion systems / project management / environmental control equipment / manufacturing people / formal advertising / prime contractors / /
NaturalFeature
Cape Kennedy / /
Organization
North American’s Missile Division / Dynamic Loads Division / Marshall Space Flight Center / Source Evaluation Board / Army / NASA Source Evaluation Board / Rendezvous Committee / North American’s Rocketdyne Division / Air Force / Langley’s Theoretical Mechanics Division / Instrument Unit Apollo Spacecraft Instrument Unit / United States Government / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Department of Defense / Langley Research Center / /
Person
James Webb / James A. Chamberlin / Apollo Spacecraft Saturn / George M. Low / John R. Moore / Lyndon B. Johnson / Ernest R. Breech / Arnold S. Levine / Milton Sherman / Gemini / James T. Koppenhaver / John W. Paup / A.A. Clagett / John Leland / Virgil Grissom / Edward White / John F. Yardley / Russ Murray / William H. Michael / Jr. / Jerome Wiesner / Willard F. Rockwell / Robert Gilruth / H. Kindleberger / John F. Kennedy / J. Leland (Lee) Atwood / Clement N. Keys / Max Faget / Apollo Spacecraft / Charles W. Mathews / Robert Seamans / Oswald H. Lange / Leland Atwood / Kenneth S. Kleinknecht / John D. Bird / Charlie Feltz / Chris Kraft / George Mueller / John C. Houbolt / Clinton E. Brown / Dave W. Lang / Roger Chaffee / Wesley Hjornevik / Ralph W. Stone / Robert O. Piland / Bob Gilruth / Harrison Storms / George E. Mueller / Norman Ryker / Max C. Kurbjun / Jim Elms / /
Position
contract manager / president / Chief Executive / Ambassadors / assistant chief / producer / engineer / contractor / Administrator / Major / representative / program manager for Apollo / Division President / Deputy Associate Administrator / manager for Cape operations / Dean / science advisor / major producer of automotive parts / Company President / prime contractor for the Apollo space vehicle / executive vice president / board chairman / Chairman of the Board / President Kennedy’s science advisor / /
CHAPTER 8: A Contractual Relationship T hrough its NASA contracts, the United States Government mobilized a large segment of American industry comparable to that ordinarily achieved only during the