Source Notes

Chapter 15: Putting It All Together: LC-39 Site Activation

  1. 1. KSC, "Apollo/Saturn V Facility Activation Plan," 3rd Coordination Draft, 30 Dec. 1965; Petrone interview, 17 Sept. 1970; "Presentation of the NASA Oversight Subcommittee, Committee on Science and Astronautics, House of Representatives," 29 Oct. 1968, pp. 38-57.

  2. 2. William T. Clearman, Jr., to T. A. Strong, "Lt. Col. Donald R. Scheller, USAF (NASA)," 12 Oct. 1964; Clearman interview, 13 Sept. 1973.

  3. 3. KSC, "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board Meeting #1," 19 Mar. 1965.

  4. 4. KSC, LC-39 Site Activation Master Schedule (Preliminary), Level A, rev. 17 Feb. 1967.

  5. 5. KSC, "Minutes of Site Activation Board Meeting #1"; "Presentation to the NASA Oversight Subcommittee," 29 Oct. 1968, pp. 43-44.

  6. 6. Gruene to Apollo/Saturn V Test Off., "Comments on Site Activation Board Charter," 1 Apr. 1965.

  7. 7. Bagnulo to Scheller, "Site Activation Board Charter," 30 Mar. 1965.

  8. 8. 8. Clark to Scheller, "Comments on Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board," 31 Mar. 1965 .

  9. 9. KSC, "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board Meeting #3," 5 Aug. 1965.

  10. 10. Donald R. Scheller, "Management by Exception, Activation of Apollo/Saturn V Launch Complex 39," 15 May 1967; "Presentation to the NASA Oversight Subcommittee," 29 Oct. 1968, pp. 41-42.

  11. 11. L. S. Harris, Chief, Site Operation Gp., Engineering and Development Dir., KSC, to Bagnulo, "Activation Projects, LC-39," 23 Sept. 1965, in KSC Engineering and Development Dir. Reading Files, 1965-66; "Minutes of KSC Site Activation Working Group Meeting #1," 3 Dec. 1965; Scheller to SAB, "Apollo/Saturn V SAB Management Meeting Membership," 19 Jan. 1966.

  12. 12. Scheller, "Management by Exception"; Clearman interview, 26 Oct. 1973; Fulton interview; Chandler interview.

  13. 13. Boeing Atlantic Test Center Management Systems Staff, "ERS Recovery Plan," by A. J. Culver and K. G. Baird, Apr. 1966.

  14. 14. Scheller, "Management by Exception"; Murphy interview.

  15. 15. Petrone's notes, 14 Feb. 1963; Wagner interview, 21 Sept. 1973; Gassman interview; NASA Apollo Inter-Center ICD Management Procedure, report CM-001-001-1B, Jan. 1969, pp. 3-4.

  16. 16. Petrone, "KSC Apollo/Saturn Configuration Management Program Directive," 29 Sept. 1965, Management Configuration Off. files.

  17. 17. KSC Apollo Program Directive No. 2, 9 Dec. 1965.

  18. 18. Gassman interview; Leet interview, 8 Nov. 1973.

  19. 19. KSC/MSC, ICD-IRN Processing, 6 May 1968; Wagner interview, 21 Sept. 1973.

  20. 20. Petrone to Poppel, "VLF-39 Facility Checkout Vehicle Minimum Requirements and Operational Characteristic," 1 Mar. 1962; Poppel (signed by Owens) to Petrone. "Minimum Requirements for Facility Checkout Vehicle for Complex 39," 2 Apr. 1962.

  21. 21. Phillips to NASA Manned Space Flight Centers, "Apollo Delivery and Launch Schedules," 16 Feb. 1965; Phillips to NASA Manned Space Flight Centers, "Apollo Schedules and Mission Assignments," 12 Jan. 1965, in Phillips file, NASA Hq. History Off.; KSC, Plans, Program, and Resources Dir., "Verification of '500-F' Schedule Dates Based upon OMSF Approved Apollo Schedule," 10 Mar. 1966.

  22. 22. Petrone to Arthur Rudolph, Saturn V Program Manager, MSFC, 11 Jan. 1966.

  23. 23. Haggard interview; "Marion Power and Shovel Company, PMSLC Hearing, Miami. Florida, May 1965," contract NASA 10-477, KSC Labor Relations Off.

  24. 24. Michael E. Haworth, Jr., NASA Contracting Off., to Marion Power Shovel, "Contract NAS 10-477," 25 Jan. 1965.

  25. 25. Clearman to Petrone, Weekly Notes of 25 June 1965.

  26. 26. George W. Waiter, Modifications to Bearings for Traction Support Rollers on Crawler-Transporters, report KSC TR-260-D, 15 Dec. 1965, pp. 1-2; KSC Weekly Notes, Poppel, 29 July 1965; F. Jones, Technical Supervisor, to Richard McCoy, "Contract AS 10-477, Salvage of Bearings," 26 Oct. 1965.

  27. 27. Waiter, Modifications to Bearings, p.2; "KSC Press Briefing and Crawler Demonstration," 25 Jan. 1966, pp. 3-4, 12.

  28. 28. M. E. Haworth to Patrick Kraft, Treasurer, Marion Power Shovel Co., 15 June 1965.

  29. 29. M. E. Haworth to F. Boyle, Pres., Marion Power Shovel Co., "NAS 10-477," 14 Oct. 1965; Gordon Harris, Chief of Public Affairs, to Debus, 30 Sept. 1965.

  30. 30. Morgan F. Jones to Poppel, 15 Nov. 1965; Poppel, "Weekly Notes to Debus," 8 Oct. 1965; "Technical Progress Reports," Third Quarter 1965, pp. 3-16; Buchanan interview, 4 Oct. 1974; Waiter, Modifications to Bearings, p. 12; "KSC Press Briefing and Crawler Demonstration," 25 Jan. 1966, pp. 16-17.

  31. 31. KSC Weekly Notes, Poppel, 3, 10 Dec. 1965; Bagnulo, 17 Dec. 1965; Spaceport News, 3 Feb. 1966.

  32. 32. NASA, PERT, Program Evaluation and Review Technique, Handbook, NPC-101, 1 Sept. 1961; "KSC Presentation to the NASA Oversight Subcommittee, Committee on Science and Astronautics," 29 Oct. 1968, pp. 38-58; Potate interview, 6 June 1972.

  33. 33. "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board Meeting #3," 5 Aug. 1965; KSC Weekly Notes, Petrone, 30 July 1965.

  34. 34. L. Steven Harris to Bagnulo, "Site Activation Board Meeting," 28 Oct. 1965, in Engineering and Development Dir. reading files, 1965-1966; Wiley interview, 31 Oct. 1973.

  35. 35. Petrone to Phillips, 4 Nov. 1965.

  36. 36. Petrone to Phillips, "Proposed SA500-F-l/501 Work Around Schedule," 7 Dec. 1965.

  37. 37. KSC Weekly Notes, Bagnulo, 17 Nov. 1965; Bagnulo to Debus and others, "Pad A Settlement," 9 Dec. 1965; Roberts interview.

  38. 38. "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn Site Activation Board Meeting #14," 6 Jan. 1966; "LC-39 Site Activation Master Schedule Meeting," 17 Jan. 1966.

  39. 39. Potter interview; Steven Harris interview; Tom Wills interview; "Reading File of Engineering Division's Site Activation Group," Sept. 1965, Steven Harris's files, KSC.

  40. 40. "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board Meeting #16," 3 Feb. 1966; KSC, "PERT Analysis Report," 20 Jan. 1966.

  41. 41. Clearman, Weekly Notes to Petrone, 7 Jan., 4, 18, 25 Feb., 3 Mar. 1966.

  42. 42. Clearman, Weekly Notes to Petrone, 3, 25 Mar., 1, 15 Apr. 1966.

  43. 43. "LC-39 Site Activation Status Reports," weekly for March and April 1966; Brewster interview; Hahn interview.

  44. 44. "LC-39 Site Activation Status Report," 27 Apr. 1966; Hahn interview.

  45. 45. "LC-39 Site Activation Status Reports," weekly reports for Mar. 1966; Weekly Notes, Bagnulo, 25 Mar. 1966; Spaceport News, 10, 31 Mar. 1966.

  46. 46. Rigell interview; "LC-39 Site Activation Weekly Reports," Mar., Apr. 1966.

  47. 47. "LC-39 Site Activation Reports," 13 Apr., 5 May, 3 Aug. 1966.

  48. 48. "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board Meeting #24," 26 May 1966; Spaceport News, 26 May 1966.

  49. 49. "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board Meeting #25," 16 June 1966; Spaceport News, 16 June 1966.

  50. 50. "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board Meetings" 25, 26, and 27, dated 16, 23 June, 7 July 1966.

  51. 51. Barfus interview; Enlow interview; Sparkman interview, 6 Dec. 1973.

  52. 52. "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board Meeting #27," 7 July 1966.

  53. 53. "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board Meetings" 27 and 28, dated 7 and 21 July 1966; Spaceport News, 4 Aug. 1966.

  54. 54. "Minutes of Apollo/Saturn V Site Activation Board Meetings" 28 and 29, 21 July, 4 Aug. 1966.

  55. 55. William I. Moore and Raymond J. Arnold, "Failure of Apollo/Saturn V Liquid Oxygen Loading System," 1967 Cryogenic Engineering Conference, 21-23 Aug. 1967, Stanford Univ., CA, paper K-1, in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering 13 (1967): 534-44; Boeing Atlantic Test Center, "Technical Report of Complex 39A LOX System Failure, 10 Sept. 1966"; "Fund Board of Inquiry Findings on Failure of LOX Distribution System - 19 Aug. 1966," J. G. Shinkle, Chairman; "Presentation to the Congressional Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight," pp. 114-19.

  56. 56. Moore and Arnold, "Failure of LOX Loading System," pp. 534-44; "Presentation to the Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight," pp. 114-19.

  57. 57. "LC-39 Site Activation Status Reports," weekly for Sept., Oct. 1966.

  58. 58. Robert Hotz, Aviation Week and Space Technology, 22 Mar. 1965, p. 11.

  59. 59. "KSC Presentation to the NASA Oversight Subcommittee," 29 Oct. 1968; Petrone interview, 17 Sept. 1970.

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