Nordberg, William, 163, 212 North American Air Defense Command North Atlantic Treaty Organization Northrup Corporation, 4, 54, 124, 240 Nosecap on Space Shuttle, 7 NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), 6- NSF. See National Science Foundation. Nuclear energy, 119, 219, 220 Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Nuclear Technology, 30 237, 246, 247 skin cancer, 27-28, 223 supersonic transports, 8 stratospheric pollution, 27-28, 70 Ozonesonde balloons, 90 P P-38 (fighter aircraft), 190 Paint, inorganic, 148 Paintings following ASTP, 137 Palmer, Patrick, 231 Pan American World Airways, 42, 224 Paris, 95, 106-107, 207 Pasadena Star News, 161 Patterson Air Force Base, 58 Patterson, John, 125 Pauling, Linus C., 190 Pearl River buoys, 90 Pecora, William T., Award, 212 People's Daily, The (China), 140, 176 appointment, 24-25, 47, 88, 122, 129, force reduction, 13 Petrone, Rocco A., 36, 61, 69, 70, 229 Philadelphia Inquirer, 86, 142, 157, 158, Phillips, Samuel C., 180, 181 Phosphates, water hyacinths absorbing, 39 Photoelectron distribution measurement, Photography by satellites, 86, 134 Photovoltaic conference, 80 Photovoltaic systems, 209 Physical changes in cosmonauts, 92 Physical Review Letters, 141 Physics and astronomy, 45, 101 Physiological effects of environment, 214 Pictographs of supernova. 186 Pilot-astronaut population in 1985, 88 Pilots of lifting-body flights, 293–295 Pioneer II, 42-43 Pioneer 6, 242 Pioneer 10, 29, 42, 88, 108, 138, 242 Pioneer-Jupiter orbiter, 14 Pioneer -Saturn (formerly Pioneer II), 42, Pioneer-Venus project, 14, 100-101, 113, Piper PA-34 Seneca aircraft, 53 Pittsburgh, Univ. of, 91, 187, 284, 285, 287 "Planetary Exploration: Earth's New Hori- Planets, 19, 78, 163, 175, 198, 206 Plasma processes, 85 Plasma experiment on Mariner 10, 52 Plesetsk (U.S.S.R. launch site), 229 Plum Brook Station (ERDA), 213 Pluto (planet), 78, 198 PMI Facilities Management Corporation, 207 PMR (pressure-modulated radiometer), 109 Pogue, William R., 64, 94, 173, 187, 191 Polar station, Soviet, 218 Pollution, 19, 21, 27-28, 39, 106, 154, 181- Pollux and Castor (French satellites), 86, Polycrystalline solidification, 210 Pope Paul VI, 140 Pope's Easter Message, 173 Powder Puff Derby, 249 Power from orbit, 30-31 "Powersat" (solar power satellite), 161 PPG Industries, 13 "Practical Applications of Space Systems" Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division (United Pravda, 210 PRC (People's Republic of China). See Presidential Management Improvement Pressure-modulated radiometer (PMR), 109 Price, Paul B., 166 Production in space, 210 Program Assurance, NASA Office of, Propellant research, 154 Propulsion technology, 49, 82, 93, 105, 119, Radiation (see also Cosmic ray, Gamma ray, Solar radiation, Ultraviolet radia- Radio Astronomy Explorers A and B, 100 Astro-Electronics Division, 185, 208, 231 Raduga (Rainbow), (U.S.S.R. satellite), Ranger and Surveyor programs, 88 Rango, Albert, 168 Rappaport, Saul A., 158 Rasool, Ichtiaque S., 158 Rats, 121, 198 RATAN-600 antenna, 232 Raytheon Service Company, 154, 201 RBV (return-beam vidicon) cameras, 185 Reaction control system (RCS), 135 Red-cell production in astronauts, 34 Red tide (phytoplankton, Gymnodinium), Redstone (missile), 125 Reed, Sylvanus Albert, award, 36 Refan program for noise reduction, 32 Remote Manipulator System (RMS), 78 Remotely piloted vehicle (RPV), 66, 124 Guard, 55 Reusable space vehicle, 149 Reuters news agency, 225 Reynolds, Smith, and Hills Company, 112 RMS (remote manipulator system), 78 Robot vehicles, 222 Rock, William H., 110, 213 Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell Interna- Rocket technology, 11, 13, 21, 41, 53, 57, Rockwell International Corporation, 7, 25, Rocky Mountains, 157 Rome, Univ. of, 212 Rosen, George, 36 Ross, Miles, 52 Satcom (communications satellites), 241- Satcom 1 (RCA 1), 274, 277, 279 Satellite applications (see also individual satellite names) atmospheric, 21 climate forecasting, 150 crop acreage calculation, and, 224 fossil fuel searches, 50 geostationary environmental, 206 meteorological, 21, 51, 71, 192, 215 microwave communications, 44 offshore communications, 159 snowcover measurement, 249 tracking and data relay, 21, 109 Satellite Business Systems, 245 Satellite de Recherches et d'Environment Technique (Sret 2), 103 Satellite Instructional Television Experi- ment (SITE), 87, 130 Satellite Situation Report, 251 Saturn I, 125 Saturn IB, 4-5, 32, 52, 132, 136, 160 Saturn V, 3, 13, 161, 213 Saturn Program Office, 160 Saturn (planet), 108, 199, 228, 245 Saudi Arabia, 4, 233 S-band radio receiver on Viking 2, 184 Scandinavian Airlines, 42 Scanning microwave spectrometer Scherer, Lee R., 12, 67 Schlesinger, James R., 107, 216, 245 Schurmeir, Harris M., 35 Schweikart, Russell L., 179 Science, 103, 104, 106, 151, 190, 235, 242 Scott Air Force Base, Ill., 74 Sea of Galilee, 243 Sea-ice, 109, 232 Skyship dirigible, 99 Slayton, Donald K., 1, 5, 65, 83, 104, 120, Slidell Computer Complex, MSFC, 210 SMF (space manufacturing facility), 250 Smith, James W., 29 Soyuz 17, 3, 91, 92, 227, 253, 282 Soyuz 18, 91, 121, 126, 227, 260, 282 Soyuz 19 (ASTP), 1, 131-132, 134, 167, 251, 265, 281, 282 Soyuz 20, 225, 227, 236, 272 Space, 47, 150, 180, 205 Space and Missile Systems Organization Space applications, 45, 101, 205 Space biology and medicine, 4, 197-198, 214 Space-environment monitor, 212 Space flight operations, 45, 101 Space manufacturing facility (SMF), 250 |