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Fairbanks, Alaska, tracking station.

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62-67

Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), cooperation on communications satellite
program

Federal Communications Commission (FCC), cooperation on communica-

tions satellite program.

Ferry vehicles...

Flight Research Center.
M-2 lifting body.

Small civilian aircraft.

X-15 research__

FLOX (Fluorine liquid oxygen). (See Propellants.)

Food in space--

Fuel cells (see also Space power; Electric power generation).

Hydrogen-oxygen..

Use for drinking water..

Use in APOLLO project.
Use in GEMINI project_

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218

50, 55, 57

221

218

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148

147

81, 82

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GEMINI Program Planning Board (GPPB).

GEMINI two-man orbital flight project (see also APOLLO project;

Galactic noise___

Manned space flight).

Abort

AGENA target vehicle.

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19

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General Dynamics Corp., tests on using FLOX in the ATLAS engine _

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76-78

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76-78

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General Electric Co., Missile and Space Division, contract for biosatellite_ 137
Geodetics research__

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Satellite data processing-

2, 101, 119-121, 123, 125

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Goldstone, Calif. (see also Jet Propulsion Laboratory), tracking station. 231, 233

GPPB. (See GEMINI Program Planning Board.)

Grissom, Astronaut Virgil I., MR-4 flight_

Ground support systems (see also Tracking and data acquisition):

Facilities

Personnel.

Grumman Aircraft and Engineering Corp., contract for APOLLO project

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Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., radiation research__

Hawaii.

Heat shielding.

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17, 155, 223

12

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Human engineering.

(See Human factors.)

systems)

Human factors (see also Aerospace medicine; Astronauts; Life support

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APOLLO project.

Effects of weightlessness.

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218

13-16, 215

218

217

96

214

187-189

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38

121, 125, 169, 173, 183, 217

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IBM. (See International Business Machines.)
IMCC. (See Integrated Mission Control Center.)
IMP. (See Interplanetary Monitoring Probes.)
Industry, effect of space program on..

Information processing. (See Data processing.)
Infrared radiometers:

Detection of solar heating in earth's atmosphere..........
Use in TIROS.

Instrumentation.

Integrated Mission Control Center (IMCC).

Interagency cooperation___.

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142

18, 33, 35, 43, 48, 52, 96, 99
12, 17, 65-67, 235
2,

10, 11, 14, 19, 23, 66, 76, 78, 120, 139, 147, 148, 151, 153, 155, 158,
188, 189, 225.

Air Force, U.S./NASA..

Spacecraft navigation

Atomic Energy Commission/NASA_

Nuclear rocket research.

SNAP project____

23, 25, 189
210

158, 178, 210

190, 193

201
120, 148
120

Department of Commerce/NASA_

Cooperation on geodetic satellite.

Department of Defense (DOD)/NASA_

19, 20, 66, 76, 78, 120, 139, 147, 148, 151, 153, 155, 188, 189, 225

Cooperation on ATLAS-AGÉNA.

Cooperation on GEMINI.

Cooperation on TITAN II.

Cooperation on Tracking ships-

Department of Interior/NASA_

Federal Aviation Agency/NASA_

Navy, U.S./NASA__.

Intercontinental drift__

Weather Bureau, U.S.

International Astronomical Union, Planetary data facility.

International Business Machines, Oswego, N.Y., instrument unit for
SATURN I...

International cooperation (see also ALOUETTE satellite; ARIEL satellite;
Sounding rockets) -

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7, 19, 20, 23, 25

23

66, 233, 237

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148

158

2, 139, 144

119

134, 135

33

102, 104, 108, 110, 158, 227, 231, 233

Australia

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Canada

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110

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Interplanetary monitoring probes (IMP)-

Interplanetary space flight (see also PIONEER, Planetary exploration)_

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156, 239
108,

195, 196, 200

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200

Ionosphere beacon satellite.

1, 16, 104, 108, 115

Ionospheric research..

103

Isotopic sources for space power.
Italy, San Marco program...

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J-2 (Rocketdyne) hydrogen-oxygen engine..

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Thrust
Test..

42, 90, 92
42, 50, 51

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (see also Goldstone, Calif.; Page
Lunar and planetary exploration).

Hybrid rocket research.

Nuclear-electric cell__

Plasma research...

Johannesberg, South Africa; tracking station..

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233

187

203

199

227, 231

205

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John F. Kennedy Space Center. (See Kennedy Space Center.)
Johnson Island, nuclear tests, 1962-

Joint task force...

TIROS support_

K

Kaplan, L..

Kennedy, President John F., coverage of assassination and funeral of, by

RELAY..

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148

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47, 57, 61-63, 66

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L

Langley Research Center, Langley Field, Hampton, Va..

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Technology...

Launch vehicles (see also Engine technology, Propulsion; Rockets; Sounding
rockets; specific launch vehicles ATLAS; ATLAS-AGENA; ATLAS-
CENTAUR; CENTAUR; DELTA SATURN; THOR-AGENA; THOR-
DELTA; SCOUT; and specific engines F-1, H-1, J-2, M-1; RL-10; A3): Page
Abort control_

Manned space flight vehicles_

Advanced versions___

Space sciences and applications vehicles.

Cooperation with DOD..

Cooperation with Office of Manned Space Flight.
Reusable orbital vehicles...

Tracking requirements

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Launches, number of satellites, and probes to date.

1

Lederberg, Prof. Joshua..

6

LEM. (See Lunar excursion module.)

LEM truck..

71

LESA. (See Lunar excursion system for APOLLO.)

CENTAUR project management..

Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio (see also Plum Brook Station)____

Engine research...

155,

185, 186, 187, 189, 193, 197, 198, 205, 219

155

185, 186, 189

High pressure engine research

185

Hybrid rocket research..

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Life support systems (see also Aerospace medicine; Bioscience; Human fac-

Life sciences program (see also Aerospace medicine; Bioscience; Human
factors; Life support systems).

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Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., contract for AGENA target vehicle.

London, University of, X-ray experiment for OAO-C.-

LOR. (See Lunar orbit rendezvous.)

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, KIWI development
Lovell, Sir Bernard.

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