Oral history interview with Earl Thompson, 2006 November 10.

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Oral history interview with Earl Thompson, 2006 November 10.

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Interview with Earl Thompson, a NASA flight controller, communications officer, and manager, concerning his childhood in Lufkin, Orange, and Huntington, Texas; education at Stephen F. Austin State University and Lamar State College of Technology; career as mathematics teacher at Port Neches-Groves high school and in U.S. Air Force; decision to apply for a job at NASA's Johnson Space Center; career with NASA, including duties on Apollo, Skylab, International Space Station, and Space Shuttle programs; problem-solving on Skylab launch; working culture among ground and flight crews, and day-in-the-life description of Skylab mission; creation of "lessons-learned" program during Skylab missions; Skylab's contributions to space exploration and to general science knowledge; importance of superior individual leadership to NASA's success. Appendix includes various photocopies of comic strips, bios., background information about Mission Control, photographs of astronauts, Mission Control personnel, the Moon, and Earth, commendations, letters of recognition, news releases, Time magazine cover of the Challenger disaster, and newspaper articles. There are also two inserts in the back cover that detail the structural organization of contractors during two different times.

68, [46] leaves : facsims. ; 29 cm. + 2 sheets ( 34 x 22 cm.)

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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