Compton - Where No Man Has Gone Before: a History of NASAs Apollo Lunar Expeditions: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions

The onerous task of acquiring, sorting, and culling the Apollo documentation at Johnson Space Center had been all but completed when I undertook this history. Chief among those responsible for acquiring these records and putting them in order are James M. Grimwood, historian at JSC from 1962 to 1979, and the late Sally D. Gates, editor and archivist in the JSC History Office until her death in 1980.

By helping me learn to find my way through this morass while I worked on an earlier project, Jim Grimwood and Sally Gates earned my lasting gratitude. Similarly the staff of the Headquarters History OfficeMonte D. Wright, director, Frank W. Anderson, Jr., assistant director, Carrie Karegeannes, editor, and Lee D. Saegesser, archivistprovided moral support, critical evaluation, and substantial assistance in my early days. Sylvia D. Fries, who took over as director in 1983, was no less helpful and encouraging on the present project than her predecessor. In the later stages of research and writing I was fortunate to have a sympathetic and helpful technical monitor in William E. Waldrip of the Management Analysis Office at JSC. Not only did he help in working with the NASA bureaucracy; he also took a deep and genuine interest in the organization and content of the book and offered perceptive comments while I was writing it.

Mrs. Sarah C. Arbuckle deserves mention for the hundreds of hours of tedious labor she applied to preparing the computerized index to the Apollo files, which was one of the tasks required by my contract. Although the results of her efforts do not appear in this book, the index was of great help in research in the later stages of its preparation. Researchers who use these files in the future will surely be grateful for her work.

Captain Alan L. Bean, USN (Ret.), artist and former astronaut, generously provided the frontispiece: a reproduction of his picture, The Hammer and the Feather, which depicts the demonstration performed by David R. Scott on Apollo 15. No photograph of this demonstration was taken on the moon; the only ones available were taken from the television screen on which earth viewers saw it performed.

Finally, my thanks go to the participants in Apollo who provided interviews and criticized the manuscript.

APPENDIX 1

ORGANIZATION CHARTS: NASA, OMSF, OSSA, MSC

NASA ORGANIZATION, JANUARY 1959

NASA SPACE FLIGHT ORGANIZATION, JANUARY 1961

NASA SPACE FLIGHT ORGANIZATION, NOVEMBER 1961

NASA SPACE FLIGHT ORGANIZATION, NOVEMBER 1963

NASA HEADQUARTERS SPACE FLIGHT ORGANIZATION, JANUARY 1972

OFFICE OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT ORGANIZATION, FEBRUARY 1964

OFFICE OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT ORGANIZATION, 1969

OFFICE OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT ORGANIZATION, MARCH 1972

OFFICE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS ORGANIZATION, FEBRUARY 1964

OFFICE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS ORGANIZATION, JUNE 1969

OFFICE OF SPACE SCIENCES ORGANIZATION, MARCH 1972

MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER ORGANIZATION, AUGUST 1962

MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER ORGANIZATION, JANUARY 1964

MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER ORGANIZATION, APRIL 1967

MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER ORGANIZATION, AUGUST 1969

MSC ORGANIZATION, 1972

APPENDIX 2

APOLLO FUNDING HISTORY

Apollo Funding History*

*Source: The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chrolonogy, vols. 1-4, NASA SP-4009 (Washington, 1969-1978).