Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT;

see also Alcator; Center for Space Re-
search), 79, 215, 219–220, 289
Materials processing, 24, 179, 205, 210
Mathews, Charles W., 5, 224
Matilsky, Terry, 158

Matthoefer, Hans, 43
Mauna Kea, Hawaii, 137

Max-Planck Institut, 212

May, Ellery B., 110, 160, 189

Mayfair Construction Company, 157
McCluney, Ross, 179
McConnell, Joseph H., 82
McDonald Observatory, 205

McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company,
120, 174, 229, 239

McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 2, 28-29,
32, 44, 51, 60, 78, 79, 80, 95, 97, 178
McElroy, Michael B., 223

MCI Communications Corporation, 10, 148
McLeaish, John E., 104
McLucas, John L., 4
McMurtry, Thomas C., 295

MDM (multiplexers-demultiplexers), 130
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of,

235

Mechanical-thermal simulator, 26-27
Medical isolation of ASTP crew, 120

Medicine and space technology, 51, 177, 219
Megaton strike capacity, U.S., 216
Memory device, 90
Mercanti, Enrico P., 179

Mercury (planet), 47, 49, 52, 106, 115, 250
Mercury propellant, 93
Mercury valve, 38

Mesabi range, Minn., 233

Messerschmitt-Boelkow- Blohm Company,
95, 163, 240

Metals, 111, 205

Meteor (U.S.S.R. meteorological satellite),

167, 251

Meteor 21, 257

Meteor 2-1, 265

Meteor 22, 269

Meteor 23, 275

Meteorology, 2, 9, 24, 26, 27, 41, 71, 117, 142,

168, 207, 225, 244

Metric conversion, 238, 249
mev: million electron volts.
Mexico-Spain satellite link, 122

mhz: megahertz (one million cycles per
second).

Miami Herald, 244, 247
Miami, Univ. of, 44

Michanowsky, George, 215

Michigan, Environmental Research Insti-
tute of, 179

Michigan, Univ. of, 284, 286

Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF), 14, 32
Microbes, 37

Microbiological laboratory, U.S.S.R., 169
Micrometeoroids, 46
Microorganisms, 134

Microprocessor, 215
Microwave energy, 161, 178

Microwave Scanning Beam Landing Sys-
tem, 69

Milan, Univ. of, 212

Mili, M., 93

Militsin, Alberty V., 81

Milky Way (galaxy), 84, 134, 141, 187, 196,

217

Mineral extraction, 8, 203

Mineral resources, 9, 142, 185

Minicomputers for Space Shuttle, 85
Minnesota Public Interest Research Group,

247

Minnesota, Univ. of, 285
Minnows, 197

Mirage (F1-E; French fighter aircraft), 99
Missile (see also individual missiles, kinds
of missiles, and missile systems).
early warning system, 19

launchings monitored by U.S., 86, 242
nosetip design, 152

U.S.S.R. firing, 166-167

Mississippi (state), Landsat applications,
39, 232

Mississippi Air and Water Pollution Control
Commission, 90

Missouri, Landsat applications, 232
MIT. See Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, 68, 79, 215, 219–220, 289
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 53
Mobile Bay, 90

Modular Computer Systems, Inc., 85, 117
Molina, Mario J., 236

Molniya (U.S.S.R. comsat series), 167, 251
Molniya 1, 259, 262, 267

Molniya I-30, 103, 251

long-range communications and TV,
for, 103

Molniya 2, 254, 265, 267, 274
Molniya 3, 258, 272, 275
Molniya I-S, 204

Monkeys in space program, 121

Monopole discovery, 166

Montoya, Joseph M., 186

Moog Inc. Controls Division, 223

Moon (see also lunar headings), 14, 23,
63-64, 74, 99–100, 111, 124, 187, 213,

226

Morris, George A., 115

Morrison, James R., 5

Morrison Knudsen Company, 69
Morton, Rogers C. B., 8

Moscow, U.S.S.R., 3, 81, 137, 191, 208,

210, 226, 230, 250

Moscow Mission Control Center, 122, 127
Mosher, Charles A., 43, 49, 108, 151
Moss, Sen. Frank E., 25, 115, 222, 235
Mount Wilson Observatory, 225
MRCA (multirole combat aircraft), 107
MSFC. See Marshall Space Flight Center.
Muir, Warren R., 183

Multiplexers-demultiplexers (MDM), 130
Multirole combat aircraft (MRCA), 107
Munich space operations center, 46
Murcray, David G., 240

Murray, Bruce C., 115

Myers, Dale D., 182

Mylar balloon (Echo 1), 165

N

NAA (National Aeronautic Assn.), 190,
249

NACA. See National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics.

NAE. See National Academy of Engineer-
ing.

Names for new planetary features, Moscow
meeting on, 250

Nanking Observatory, China, 78
NAS. See National Academy of Sciences.
NASA. See National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.

Nash, Edward J., 74

NASTRAN (NASA structural analysis),
7

National Academy of Engineering (NAE),

68, 221, 246

National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 34,
68, 141, 246

National Advisory Committee for Aeronau-
tics (NACA), 69, 202

National Aeronautic Assn. (NAA) 190, 249
National Aeronautics and Space Admini-

stration (NASA; see also individual
Centers, offices, and programs;
Awards; Budget, NASA; Contract,
NASA; Employment, NASA; Inter-
agency cooperation; International Co-
operation, space; Launchings; and
Personnel, NASA), 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13,
19, 29, 35, 37, 38, 41, 43, 54, 57, 63, 69,
71, 82, 85, 93, 94, 97, 98, 105, 119, 123,
127, 129, 144, 151, 158, 165, 168, 171,
173, 178-179, 186, 187, 190, 206, 207,
218, 222, 226, 248

National Aviation Club, 74

National Bureau of Standards (NBS), 43,
236, 249

National Business Aircraft Association, 65
National Cancer Institute, 27-28, 60
National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR), 89, 207

National Center for Resource Recovery, 61
National Environmental Satellite Service
(NESS), NOAA, 211–212, 243, 248-249
National Gallery of Art, 137
National Geodetic Satellite Program
(NGSP), 63

National Medal of Science, 189-190
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration. See NOAA.

National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
231

National Research Council, 14, 216, 221,
246

National Science Board, 84

National Science Foundation (NSF), 6, 18,

NGSP (National Geodetic Satellite Pro-
gram), 63

Nicogossian, Arnauld E., 148-149, 171
Nike-Apache, 90, 284, 285, 287, 288
Nike-Cajun, 237, 286, 288, 290

Nike-Hawk (sounding rocket), 187, 289
Nike-Javelin, 290

Nike-Tomahawk, 90, 285, 286, 287, 288,
289, 291

Nimbus (satellites), 13, 26, 142

Nimbus-F experimental meteorological
satellite, 1, 51, 60

Nimbus 1, 109

Nimbus 2, 109

Nimbus 3, 109

Nimbus 4, 109, 228

Nimbus 5, 109

Nimbus 6, 108-109, 207, 232, 233, 237,

263, 277, 278

Ninety-Nines, Inc., 249

Nitrogen, 223, 247

Nitrogen-oxide emission standards, 8
Nitrogen tetroxide, 148

Nixon, President Richard M., 90, 104, 142,

143
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration). (See also National
Environmental Satellite Service
(NESS)), 2, 19, 24, 25, 37, 43, 57, 59,
71, 94, 179, 206, 211, 212, 231, 243,
246, 248-249

Noaa satellites: see ITOS E-2, Sms, Goes
Nobel Prize, 125, 190

Noggle, Lawrence W., 57, 58
Noise

galactic, 100

jet, 32-33, 147

reduction, 2, 19, 65, 127

Noordwijk, the Netherlands, 93

NORAD. See North American Air Defense
Command.

Nordberg, William, 163, 212
Norsk Polarinstitut, Norway, 207

North American Air Defense Command
(NORAD), 47

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), 59, 108

Northrup Corporation, 4, 54, 124, 240
Northrup Services, Inc., 14
Norway, 99, 107

Nosecap on Space Shuttle, 7
Nosetip designs, 152
Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R., 192

NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), 6-
7. (See also National Research Council)
NRL (Naval Research Laboratory). See
U.S. Navy.

NSF. See National Science Foundation.
NSPL (NASA Standard Parts List), 239
NSTL. See National Space Technology
Laboratories.

Nuclear energy, 119, 219, 220
Nuclear fusion, 219-220
Nuclear-powered aircraft, 57, 123
Nuclear-powered lasers, 119
Nuclear reactors, 220

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC),
6-7

Nuclear Technology, 30

OTDA (Office of Tracking and Data Acqui-

sition, NASA Hq), 189

O'Toole, Thomas, 3, 131, 137, 233
OTS (Orbital Test Satellite), 48
Outer solar system, 14

Outer space, 165, 213, 231

"Outlook for Aeronautics," (study), 218

"Outlook for Space," 150

"Outlook for the Space Program," (speech),

P

P-38 (fighter aircraft), 190
Pacific Ocean, 180, 195
Page, George F., 207

Paint, inorganic, 148

Paintings following ASTP, 137
Paiute-Tomahawks, 6
Palestine, Tex., 89

Palmdale, Calif., 185

Palmer, Patrick, 231

Pan American World Airways, 42, 224
Parachutes, 100, 160, 186, 190-191, 217

Paris, 95, 106-107, 207
Particle-interface reactions, 210
Particle stream measurements, 39
Particle with one magnetic pole, 166
Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz
Test Project, 66, 77, 83, 110, 120, 121,
136

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
Peenemunde, Germany, 235
Pendray, G. Edward, Award, 36
Pennsylvania State Univ., 91, 286, 287, 288
Pentagon, 164, 245, 246

People's Daily, The (China), 140, 176
People's Republic of China (PRC). See
China, People's Republic of.
Permanent space facility, 151
Personnel, NASA

appointment, 24-25, 47, 88, 122, 129,
173, 189, 207

force reduction, 13
Peru, 90, 203, 242, 283
Peterson, Russell W., 29

Petrone, Rocco A., 36, 61, 69, 70, 229
Petrov, Boris N., 7, 191, 241
Ph.D.s, overproduction, 60

Philadelphia Inquirer, 86, 142, 157, 158,
164

Phillips, Samuel C., 180, 181
Phillips, William H., 36

Phosphates, water hyacinths absorbing, 39
Photochemical processes caused by solar
ultraviolet radiation, 13

Photoelectron distribution measurement,

187

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
Physics Today, 97

Physiological effects of environment, 214
Phytoplankton Gymnodinium, 179
Pickering, William H., 115

Pictographs of supernova. 186

Pilot-astronaut population in 1985, 88
Pilot body-size changes, 88

Pilots of lifting-body flights, 293–295
Pinsky, Lawrence S., 166

Pioneer II, 42-43

Pioneer 6, 242

Pioneer 10, 29, 42, 88, 108, 138, 242
Pioneer 11, 29, 242, 245

Pioneer-Jupiter orbiter, 14

Pioneer-Saturn (formerly Pioneer II), 42,
228

Pioneer - Venus project, 14, 100-101, 113,
127-128, 144, 147, 175, 194

Piper PA-34 Seneca aircraft, 53

Pittsburgh, Univ. of, 91, 187, 284, 285, 287
"Plane for Outer Space," 150

"Planetary Exploration: Earth's New Hori-
zon, 35

Planets, 19, 78, 163, 175, 198, 206
Plant tumor experiment, 197
Plants, aquatic, 39

Plasma processes, 85

Plasma experiment on Mariner 10, 52
Platforms, 109, 207, 232

Plesetsk (U.S.S.R. launch site), 229

Plum Brook Station (ERDA), 213
Plume simulation, 14

Pluto (planet), 78, 198

PMI Facilities Management Corporation,

207

PMR (pressure-modulated radiometer), 109
pndb: perceived noise in decibels

Pogue, William R., 64, 94, 173, 187, 191
Poland, 229

Polar station, Soviet, 218
Poleyn, Fabian, 179

Pollution, 19, 21, 27-28, 39, 106, 154, 181-
183, 247-

Pollux and Castor (French satellites), 86,
251, 260

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
Pozinsky. Norman, 188-189
PPG Industries, 13

"Practical Applications of Space Systems"
(NRC report), 141

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division (United
Aircraft Corp.), 2

Pravda, 210

PRC (People's Republic of China). See
China.
Precipitation, 94

Presidential Management Improvement
Awards, 77
Pressure groups, 60

Pressure-modulated radiometer (PMR),

109

Price, Paul B., 166

Prichard, Reuben P., 50
Princeton Univ., 250
Productivity, 36, 68
Production in space, 210
Prognoz 4, 245, 251, 275

Program Assurance, NASA Office of,
46-47

Propellant research, 154

Propulsion technology, 49, 82, 93, 105, 119,
129, 190

Ranger and Surveyor programs, 88

Ranger (spacecraft), 115

Rango, Albert, 168

Rappaport, Saul A., 158

Rasool, Ichtiaque S., 158

Rats, 121, 198

RATAN-600 antenna, 232
Ratsiraka, Didier, 129

Raytheon Service Company, 154, 201

RBV (return-beam vidicon) cameras, 185
RCA. See Radio Corporation of America.
RCA-Satcom 1, 2

Reaction control system (RCS), 135
Reconnaissance satellites, 67, 86, 176
Recovery helicopters, 66
Recurrent nova, 158

Red-cell production in astronauts, 34
Red stars, 17

Red tide (phytoplankton, Gymnodinium),
179, 249

Redstone (missile), 125

Reed, Sylvanus Albert, award, 36
Refan program for noise reduction, 32
Reimbursable payloads, foreign, 48
Reinhold Construction Company, 69
Reliability, aircraft, 19

Remote Manipulator System (RMS), 78
Remote-sensing technology, 9-10, 41, 168
Remotely piloted research vehicle (RPRV),
41, 66, 167

Remotely piloted vehicle (RPV), 66, 124
Rescue Coordination Center of U.S. Coast
Guard, 55

Reusable space vehicle, 149

Reuters news agency, 225

Reynolds, Smith, and Hills Company, 112
Rice Univ., 285

RMS (remote manipulator system), 78
Robert M. Losey Award, 36

Robot vehicles, 222

Rock. William H., 110, 213
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 106
Rockefeller Univ., 226

Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell Interna-
tional Corporation, 78

Rocket technology, 11, 13, 21, 41, 53, 57,
84, 90, 102, 111, 119, 123, 186, 190,
235, 248, 283

Rockwell International Corporation, 7, 25,
37, 52, 66, 70, 78, 81, 90, 92-93, 96,
105, 120, 124, 125, 126, 136, 139, 161,
173, 180, 182, 185, 201, 202, 203, 211,
226-227, 243

Rocky Mountains, 157
Roland, F. Sherwood, 236
Romanenko, Yury V., 28
Romania, 229

Rome, Univ. of, 212

Rosen, George, 36

Ross, Miles, 52