Records of the lyndon b. Johnson space center
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MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTERE.420. CASE FILES ON PROJECT MERCURY. 1958-1964. 11 ft. Arranged by subject. There is a list of folder titles in box l. Originals and copies of correspondence, memoranda, drawings, technical reports, and test reports relating to the design, construction, testing of Project Mercury flight hardware and the conduct of actual flights. There are numerous photographs of test and flight operations and aperture card microfilm copies of detailed technical drawings. There are some copies of project histories prepared by the Marshall Center Historical Office. It appears that these records were assembled from various offices within the Marshall Space Flight Center at the conclusion of Project Mercury and then transferred to the Johnson Space Center. (66A527)
Arranged by office and thereunder by subject. There is a detailed list of documents in box 1. Original correspondence, TWX, technical reports, and drawings created by the Propulsion and Vehicle Engineering Lab, the Aero-Astrodynamics Lab, the Office of the Deputy Director, and the Technical Staff. The records relate to the design, testing, and flight of Mercury-Redstone and related hardware and include studies on trajectory and guidance, tracking and ground instrumentation, flight evaluations and post-launch reports, and various Mercury Working Papers. There are copies of the Specifications for a Manned Space Capsule, the Project Mercury Familiarization Manual (SEDR 104), drawings for a parachute booster recovery system, and studies relating to the Adam Program for a Manned-Satellite. These records are very similar to the material described in Entry 220 but appear to have been maintained separately because of their security classification. NASA declassified all of the records by 1978. (Old acc#66A469)
Arranged by subject. There is a list of folder titles in box 1. Correspondence, TWXs, hand-written notes, technical reports, minutes of meetings, copies of printed reports, drawings of the gantry and other ground support equipment, drawings of boosters and related hardware, and photographs of construction of facilities and some flight/test hardware. The bulk of the correspondence is with officials of the Marshall Space Flight Center. The records relate to range and ground safety, emergency abort and rescue procedures, instrumentation and other ground support equipment, booster recovery, Department of Defense support, trajectory, and telemetry. The records include copies various Mercury Working Papers, Launch Operations Directorate Monthly Progress Reports, minutes of meetings of the Launch Operations Committee and the Flight Test Working Group, and plans and operational orders of the Atlantic Fleet recovery forces. It appears that the bulk of the files were maintained by Emil P. Bertram who was an assistant to Kurt H. Debus with the Army Ballistic Missile Agency’s Missile Firing Laboratory and subsequently the Marshall Space Flight Center’s coordinator for pad operations at the Kennedy Space Center. Many of the records were formerly classified but were all declassified by NASA by 1975. The folders are annotated “Filmed” but there is no indication who may have done the filming or where the film is now located. (Old acc#69A78)
In February 1959, the Instrument Research Division of the Langley Research Center at Hampton, Virginia was assigned the task of setting up a worldwide tracking network for Project Mercury. Hartley A. Soule, the division director, and Sherwood L. Butler, the Langley Procurement Officer, worked closely with the Space Task Group, which was also located at Langley until its move to Houston. A Tracking and Ground Instrumentation Unit (TAGIU) with 35 employees was established at Langley to implement the recommendations of studies for a world-wide tracking network that were done in the Summer of 1958 (See This New Ocean, pps 146 and 213-219). Western Electric was selected as the prime contractor to build the network under contract NAS 1-430. Records Relating to Tracking and Ground InstrumentationE.423. SUBJECT FILES. 1958-1962. 27 ft. Arranged by a numerical classification system (with gaps). A copy of the file guide is in box 1. Originals and copies of correspondence, memoranda, TWXs, narrative progress reports, siting team reports, minutes of meetings of various committees including the Mercury Project Managers and the Network Coordinating Committee, technical engineering studies and test reports, operations and procedures manuals, drawings, and some photographs and slides of sites and facilities. Much of the correspondence is with other NASA units, the Department of Defense and its various service commands, the State Department, Western Electric, and sub-contractors. The records relate to the design, construction, inspection, and acceptance of facilities and related ground equipment. There are also records relating to the negotiation of both interagency agreements and government-to-government agreements with Australia, Spain, Nigeria, Zanzibar, Canada, Great Britain, and Mexico. It appears that the files were maintained primarily by the Engineering Service Division and were sent to the Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston at the conclusion of the Mercury Project. Some of the records were classified Confidential but all were declassified by NASA in 1972. (Old acc# 69A200 and 69A201)
Arranged by subject or type of document and thereunder chronologically. Originals and copies of correspondence, memoranda, TWXs, contract proposals, amendments, agenda and minutes of meetings, and various contracting documents relating primarily to contract NAS 1-430. The bulk of the correspondence is between NASA officials and the Western Electric Company, Bendix, or the numerous subcontractors. There are also copies of some technical reports submitted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Lab. (Old acc#69A200 and 69A201)
Arranged by site and thereunder by type of drawing. Sepia copies of engineering drawings prepared by Burns and Roe Inc of sites for tracking stations. Most of the drawings appear to be “As Built” and some are reversed “reproducible” versions. There are also some pen drawings of “Site Plans-Transmitter Area” on mylar and four sets of drawings that were part of file MT8.1.1.A.2 from entry E.223. (Old acc #69A201)
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