Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Parts 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968 |
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activities additional aeronautics aircraft Airlock Apollo Applications Program Apollo Lunar Apollo Program Apollo Telescope Mount astronauts budget capability checkout Command and Service completed configuration continue contract contractor cost crew Director Docking Adapter Earth orbital effort equipment evaluation experiments FIGURE Fiscal Year 1969 FULTON funding Gemini hardware increase Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex Launch Complex 39 launch vehicle lunar exploration lunar landing lunar mission Lunar Module Lunar Orbiter lunar surface major Marshall Space Flight ment million modifications MSFC MUELLER NASA HQ objectives Office payload performance personnel planned problems propulsion reduced request requirements result S-II S-IVB satellites Saturn I Workshop Saturn IB Saturn V launch scheduled scientific Service Module solar Space Flight Center Space Flight Network Space Flight Program Space Science space station space vehicle Spacecraft Center stage structure studies subsystem TEAGUE Test Facility tion unmanned utilization
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