Viking Project Flight Operations and Mission Control Documents Collection, 1971-1976.

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Viking Project Flight Operations and Mission Control Documents Collection, 1971-1976.

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This collection has been assembled from several separate accessions and gathers together documents relating to flight operations and mission control of the Viking spacecraft. With the exception of the very last document in the collection, all were created and issued in the Viking pre-launch period. The entire collection is arranged in a single chronological sequence. Within this collection is documentation in the form of operations plans, management and progress reports, status reviews, operations guides, procedural recommendations, and presentation outlines, along with some test plans. The topics covered range from detailed sequences of spacecraft/orbiter/lander events for all segments of the mission, computer terminal support oversight, launch site control, Mission Control and Computing Center (MCCC) operations and management, trajectory parameters, data system development, and the Viking Navigation Plan. The latter document was co-edited by Charles Kohlhase of JPL and B. Gentry Lee, Mission Operations and Design Manager for Martin Marietta Corporation. The final document in the collection is the MCCC post-launch uplink/downlink interface control document. Most of the documents contain at least one identifying number, usually a Viking Orbiter Data Index number. These are usually written in pencil in the lower right or left hand corner of the first page. The Archives has a nine-volume printout of Viking documents listed by Data Index number. The listing of index numbers, although in ascending sequential order, is discontinuous. Number series are repeated several times throughout the index.

2.7 cubic ft. (98 folders).

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)

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Alcorn, H. W.

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Kohlhase, Charles.

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