The Glennan-Webb-Seamans Project for Research in Space History, 1985-1990.

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The Glennan-Webb-Seamans Project for Research in Space History, 1985-1990.

The emphasis of this project is on NASA management practice during the Apollo program. A working assumption of this research effort was that administration and management in NASA were a means by which broad policy and political goals of the President and Congress were to be translated into specific technical achievements, such as landing men on the moon. Interviews include: Leland J. Atwood, Delmer Bradshaw, James R. Burnett, Paul Demitriades, Edward Doll, Peter Downey, Brian Duff, James Elms, James Fletcher, Robert Gilruth, T. Keith Glennan, Donald Jacobs, Ruben Mettler, Mark Miller, George Mueller, Samuel Phillips, Simon Ramo, Robert Seamans, Willis Shapley, Abe Silverstein, David Soergel, Harrison Storms, James Webb, Thorton A. Wilson, Herbert York.

193 hr. of interviews with 22 individuals.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8321574

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Mettler, Ruben F., 1924-2006

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Seamans, Robert Channing, 1918-2008

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Storms, Harrison A.

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Duff, B. G. d. 1984.

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Glennan, Thomas Keith, 1905-1995

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Mueller, G. E. 1918-

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Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991

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Ramo, Simon.

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York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank)

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Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochran), 1921-1990

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