Records of the lyndon b. Johnson space center
EARTH RESOURCES PROGRAM OFFICE (HA)
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EARTH RESOURCES PROGRAM OFFICE (HA)The Earth Resources Project Office was established on March 31, 1972 (MSCA 72-54). It was given responsibility for planning, coordination, and direction of all MSC earth resources activities. As with other program offices, it worked with other MSC Directorates to accomplish its mission goals. Clifford E. Charlesworth, former Deputy Manager of the Skylab Program Office, was named program manager. The Earth Resources Lab was transferred to the National Space Technology Lab on August 24, 1977 (JSCI 1130.1S). The Program Office was abolished April 20, 1979 and its personnel transferred to the Space and Life Sciences Directorate (JSCI 1130.1T). E.194A. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE FILES. 1972-1979. 17 ft. Arranged in yearly segments and thereunder by subject using the same categories found in entry 205T5. Correspondence, memoranda, TWXs, Program Operating Plans, Program Management Plans, budget requests and reports, Research and Technology Operating Plans (RTOPs), experiment proposals, Weekly Activity Reports, Aircraft Status Reports, Aircraft Schedules and Mission Reports, Surveys and Audits, and related material maintained primarily by William E. Rice, and other managers in the program office (HA). The records relate to development and flight of hardware and analysis of data. There is correspondence with NASA Headquarters, contractors, and various scientists relating to proposals for remote sensing experiments, approval, funding, and results. There are records relating to the Earth Resources Experimental Package (EREP), the Large Area Crop Inventory Project, and other remote sensing projects. Many of the experiments were flown on NASA aircraft. (Old acc# 76A275, 77A43, 79A26, and 81-51)
Arranged by subject. Correspondence, memoranda, technical reports, statements of work, proposals, contracts, and other material relating to experiments flown on Skylab missions. The bulk of the correspondence is with Martin, Honeywell, ITEK, the University of Kansas, and other contractors working on experiment hardware or analysis. There is some material relating to the Earth Resources Experimental Package (EREP) and the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM). It appears that the records were maintained primarily by G. P. Kenney of the Systems Analysis and Integration Office (HC). (Old acc# 77-74)
An Assistant Director for Computation and Flight Support was established in the Flight Operations Directorate on December 31, 1970. It was responsible for planning, coordinating, and directing all Center computation facilities. It was replaced by the Data Systems and Analysis Directorate (FA) on January 28, 1974 (JSCA 74-8 and JSCI 1145.5) with responsibility for design, implementation, operation, and maintenance of all JSC ground based data systems including mission control systems, crew simulation systems, and earth resources systems. The directorate was responsible for earth resources data processing, design and development of mission profiles, operational trajectories, mission planning and analysis. It was also responsible for the development, coordination, and implementation of all flight computer software. Howard W. Tindall was appointed Director. It initially included Divisions for Ground Data Systems, Institutional Data Systems, Operations Analysis, Spacecraft Software, and Flight Simulation. It was designated the Mission Support Directorate on April 13, 1983 (MSCI 1130.1Y). Mission Planning and Analysis DivisionThe Division (FM8) was established on December 2, 1975 by MSCI 1145.5 with responsibility for software formulation and development for spacecraft and ground-based computers, mission planning and analysis, and data product analysis in support of space flight experiments. The Division was abolished on April 11, 1990. E.194T. INTERNAL NOTES. 1971-1975. 9 ft. Arranged by control number (71FM386 to 75FM81 with gaps). A record copy technical reports prepared by various units on highly technical topics such as guidance and trajectory, tracking, data acquisition, hardware design and operation, mission parameters, and abort procedures. Some of the documents were created by TRW (see also E.209H). These notes were once maintained in the Flight Operations Directorate but were transferred to the MPAD Document Center. For earlier notes see entry 157G and 209B. (Old acc # 81-42).
Arranged by JSC control number (there is a list of roll numbers in box 1) Positive 16mm microfilm copies of documents generated in support of ASTP experiments. The documents relate to Apollo Spacecraft ephemeris, attitudes, sensor pointings, fields of view, and other special PI parameters. The documents relate to data tapes that are still in the custody of NASA. (Direct offer 7NC-255-96-0001)
In January, 1967 the Space Science Division and the Experiments Program Office were removed from the Engineering and Development Directorate and a Science and Applications Directorate was created to assume their functions, manage the construction and operation of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, and serve as the focal point contacts between MSC and the scientific community. Robert O. Piland, formerly manager of the Experiments Program Office, was named Deputy Director. On February 17, 1967 Dr. Wilmot N. Hess, was appointed Director. Hess was a nuclear physicist who had headed the University of California’s Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, California and worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Center. In 1971 the Directorate was reorganized to include a Lunar Sample Office responsible for supervising the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, a Planetary and Earth Sciences Division, and an Earth Observations Aircraft Program Office that conducted flights to obtain data to correlate with information from space missions. An Earth Resources Experiments Package (EREP) Investigations Office was established in January 1972, under O. Glenn Smith, to work with the Skylab Program Office to develop and conduct experiments. The Directorate was abolished on January 25, 1977 and its functions transferred to the Space and Life Sciences Directorate. See William David Compton, Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions (NASA SP-4214, Washington, 1989) for a detailed study of the Apollo lunar science program. See also Donald A. Beattie, Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program (Baltimore, 2001), and Don E. Wilhelms, To A Rocky Moon: A Geologist’s History of Lunar Exploration (Tucson, 1993). E.195C5. PROJECT FILES ON THE EARLY APOLLO SURFACE EXEPRIMENTS PACKAGE (EASEP). 1968-1970. 2 ft. Arranged by subject. Correspondence, experiment proposals, technical reports and studies, briefing materials for program and design reviews and presentations, negotiating plans, financial reports, status and progress reports, minutes of meetings, press releases, familiarization manuals, drawings, and photographs of hardware. The bulk of the correspondence is with Bendix Aerospace Systems Division and relates to the design, testing, and delivery of experiment hardware. The records include a copy of the Apollo 11 Photographic and Scientific Crew Debriefing. It appears the files were maintained by John W. Small who served as Chief of the Lunar Surface Project Office (TD) and by P. Donald Gerke, Manager of the EASEP Project Office (TD3). (Old acc# 72A175 and 73A771)
Arranged by subject. Correspondence, experiment proposals, statements of work, technical reports and studies, briefing materials for program and design reviews and presentations, Flight Familiarization Manuals, negotiating plans, financial reports, status and progress reports, implementation plans, inspection and acceptance documents, acceptance data packages, contingency plans, controller’s handbooks, minutes of meetings, press releases, drawings, and photographs of hardware. The bulk of the records relate to the Laser Retroflector (LR3), the Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment (SIDE), and the Cold Cathode Ion Gauge Experiment (CCGE). The files were maintained by various staff members in the Lunar Surface Experiments Office (TD2). (Old acc# 71A1357, 72A1126 and 76A200)
Arranged by subject. Correspondence, materials for briefings and presentations, minutes of meetings, schedules, experiment proposals, statements of work, negotiating plans, financial status reports, progress reports, and drawings. The bulk of the correspondence is with Northrup, North American Aviation, Lockheed, and Martin and relates to the Apollo Experiments Pallet and various experiment hardware to be flown in the Apollo Service Module as part of the Lunar Orbital Science Program. Jackson served with the Experiments Project Office (EX) and later the Advanced Systems Office (TE). (Old acc# 71A1257)
Arranged by subject. Correspondence, briefing materials for program reviews, minutes of meetings, research proposals, task plans, milestone charts and schedules, photographs, and various technical reports. The bulk of the records relate to remote sensing experiments flown by NASA aircraft operated by the Earth Resources Aircraft Program (EX24) and later by the Earth Resources Survey Aircraft Office (TE2). The records also include research proposals, experimentation implementation plans, progress reports, contract documents, and correspondence relating to proposals for remote sensing experiments to be flown on Apollo Applications missions (AAP-1A and AAP-B). It appears the files were maintained primarily by Leo F. Childs who served as head of both EX24 and TE2. (Old acc# 72A1392)
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