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THE _MANNED FLIGHT PROGRAM

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APOLLO PROGRAM 1

SKYLAB 2

SPACE STATION 3

SPACE SHUTTLE 4

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Program Apollo

Description Manned lunar landing, lunar exploration. Equipment

includes three-man command module, service module,
two-man lunar module; three-stage Saturn V launch
vehicle.

Schedule Four flights remain in program. Apollo 14 scheduled

Jan. 31, 1971. Apollo 15, 16, 17 follow at six month
inter-.als. Program achieved 10 unmanned fliglits of
Saturn IB (Apollo 7); six manned flights of Saturn V
(Apollos 8 through 13); two moon-orbit flights
(Apollo 8, 10); two lunar landing flights (Apollo ll,
12); one earth-orbital mission (Apollo 9); one aborted
moon-landing mission (Apollo 13 1, which went around
moon and back to earth.

Crews Apollo 7: Walter M. Schirra, R. Walter Cunningham,

Donn F. Eisele; Apollo 8: Frank Borman, James A.
Lovell, Jr., William A. Anders; Apollo 9: James A.
McDivitt, David R. Scott, Russell L. Schweickart;
Apollo 10: Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, Eugene
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A. Cernan; Apollo 11: Neil A. Armstrong, Michael
Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin; Apollo 12: Charles Conrad,
Jr., Richard R. Gordon, Jr., Alan L. Bean; Apollo 13:
James A. Lovell, Jr. tr John L. Swigert, Jr., Fred W.
Haise, Jr.; Apollo 14: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Stuart
A. Roosa, Edgar D. Mitchell; Apollo 15: David R.
Scott, Alfred M. Worden, Jr., James B. Irwin.

Program Officials Dr. Rocco A. Petrone, program director; Chester M.

Lee, mission director; James A. McDivitt, spacecraft
program manager; Richard Smith, Saturn program manager;
Walter J. Kapryan, launch operations director.

Funding $21.349 billion expended through July 31, 1969.

Principal Contractors : North American Rockwell Corp., The Boeing Co.,
McDonnell-Douglas Corp., Grumman Aerospace Corp.,
International Business Machine Corp., AC Electronics
Division of General Motors Corp., Bendix Corp.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chrysler Corp.

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Program Skylab

Description Manned earth-orbital workshop. Equipment includes

Orbital Workshop with 10,000 cubic feet of habitable
space, Apollo Telescope Mount, Multiple Docking
Adapter, Airlock Module, Apollo Command and Service
Module. Workshop will be manned by three separate
three-man crews at different times. Crew will carry
out about 50 scientific, medical, applications and
solar astronomy experiments from earth orbit.

Schedule Workshop to be launched by two-stage Saturn: V late

in 1972. First three-man crew to be launched
following day on Saturn IB. This crew will remain
in workshop up to 28 de- r s. Two other three-man crews
will be launched at approximate 90-day intervals and
will remain in workshop up to 56 days each.

Crews Not designated.

Program Officials William C, Schneider, program director; Kenneth

Kleinknecht, Skylab manager (MSC); Leland Belew,
Skylab manager (MSFC); Thomas W. Morgan, Skylab
manager (KSC).

Funding About $1.4 billion expended to date. Runout costs

estimated at $2 billion.

Principal Contractors: McDonnell-Douglas Corp., Martin Marietta Corp., The

Boeing Co., Chrysler Corp., :forth American Rockwell
Corp.

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Program Space Station

Description A centralized earth orbital facility for

international research, applications, and space
operations for 10 year period. Equipment includes
resuppliable modules for living quarters (12 men)
and general purpose laboratories with multiple
docking ports for experiment and cargo moduLles.
Station expandable to larger space base configurations.
Would operate with space shuttle as logistic vehicle.

Schedules Current program encompasses technical studies of the

space station and related uses and operations;
definition and planning of experiments and integra'.ed
observatory-type space facilities; and research and
development on advancements in technology applicable
to program. Could reach flight status in the late
1970's.
Crews Not yet named.

Program Officials Charles W. Mathews, acting director, and Douglas Lord,

deputy director, Space Station Task Force, Office of
Manned Space Flight.

Funding $30 million requested in FY 1971 budget. Technology

studies, $32.9 million requested in FY 1971 budget.

Principal Contractors: McDonnell Douglas Corp. and North American Rockwell

Corp. conducting Phase B Program Definition studies.

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Program Space Shuttle

Description Reuseable laurch vehicle and transport to carry

people and cargo between Earth and low Earth
orbit. Concept calls for airplane-like booster
and orbiter stages for piggyback vertical launch
and separate horizontal landing. Missions include
space station supply, deployment of unmanned space-
craft, satellite repair and retrieval, propellant
delivery, space rescue, short-duration orbital
science and applications missions.

Schedule First horizontal test flights, 1975; orbital test

flights, 1976; first operational flights, 1977.

Program Officials Charles W. Mathews, acting director, . d LeRoy E.

Day, deputy, Space Shuttle Task Force, Office of
Manned Space Flight; Roy Godfrey, Marshall Space
Flight Center; Robert Thompson, Manned Spacecraft
Center.

Funding $80 million requested in FY 1971 budget for vehicle

and engine definition and preliminary design, about
$35 million for technology studies. Freliminary
data indicate that a 1977-78 operational date would
require funding of about $6 billion over six years.

Principal Contractors : McDonnell Douglas and North American Rockwell,

vehicle; Aero,jet General, Rocketdyne Division of NAR,
and Pratt & Whitney, main engines; Lockheed, Chrysler,
and Grurmnan-Boeing, feasability studies of alternate
concepts.

Status Current studies to be completed in first half of

calendar 1971.

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