HONR 269I
To the Moon and Back: The Apollo Program
Spring 2019
E2: Case Study

The goal of this Case Study individual experience is to bring the Apollo program down to a personal level by learning about the role and activities of a single person.

Your first step in this process will be to select at least five people, each of whom must be from a different category in the following list (if you submit a more than five people, you may list more than one person from a category, but your list must include people from at least five different categories). You can rank your list in preferred-first order (if you do, please say so!). We need your list uploaded to ELMS before class on Thursday February 7 so that we can assign you a person to study by Saturday February 9. We will not assign the same person to more than one student, so spread your selections out a bit to make it possible for everyone to get their choice (i.e., don't all try to select Neil Armstrong!).

You will have then have three weeks to learn about the person your have been assigned. For each person, we have provided an initial source to get you started, but over the course of these three weeks you should read about your person considerably more broadly than just that one source. Of course, some people have more written about them than others. In general you should plan to consult at least five sources (except for the few cases in which fewer than five sources exist). You'll want to learn about their background that eventually led them to Apollo, what their role (or roles) were during the Apollo program and what life was like for them during that time, and you will want to learn about some details of the Apollo Program through their eyes. Throughout the semester, you will apply what you learn by enriching our class discussions based on what you have learned from your person's perspective on Apollo.

As a summative process, you will write a short (3-page, single-spaced, 12-point font, standard margins, not including references) paper about your assigned person. In that paper you should summarize their background in one paragraph, summarize their role(s) in Apollo in your second paragraph, and then spend most of the rest of your paper describing (in detail) a single incident during the Apollo program in which your person was involved. You should choose an incident in which they needed made some decision or took some action that contributed in some way to the program. Finally, you should end your paper with a paragraph describing what your person did after the end of the Apollo program. Then include the list of sources that you read (if you read more than five, you can list only the most useful five). Submit your paper using ELMS before class on February 28. We'll use this paper in two ways.

One is to get our first impression of how you write (so write well!). The other is to get a sense for how well you have drilled down beyond the initial pointers we have provided. You can -- and should -- ask others to read and comment on your writing. But everything you turn in -- every single character -- must have been written yourself. You also need to avoid even a whiff of plagiarism (in this and in all your writing). When you quote the words of others, you need to use quotation marks and cite your source. And when you state the ideas of others, whether by direct quotation or by paraphrase, you must give credit by citing your source. You can use any standard style for your citations, and for the references those citations refer to. You don't need to indicate page numbers in your citations, though.

Okay, here's the list. When choosing people, please list both their name and their number. If for some reason you want to suggest someone who is not on this list, please submit that as an extra name beyond the five we have asked for.

Senior NASA Managers

1. Kurt Debus, KSC Director
2. Bob Gilruth, Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) Director
3. George Low, NASA HQ and MSC (Apollo Systems Program Office) (additional interview focusing on early Apollo Planning)
4. Chuck Matthews, MSC (Director, Gemini Program Office)
5. George Mueller, NASA HQ (Director, Office of Manned Space Flight)
6. Joe Shea, MSC (Apollo Systems Program Office)
7. Werner Von Braun, Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director
8. Jim Webb, NASA HQ (NASA Administrator)

Contractors

8. George Jeffs, North American
9. Tom Kelly, Grumman
10. Dale Myers, North American
11. Roberta Pilkenton, ILC Dover
12. Harrison (Stormy) Storms, North American
13. Guenter Wendt, McDonnell and North American (Internet Archive interview 1) (Internet Archive interview 2)

Astronauts

14. Joe Allen (CAPCOM, group 6)
15. Al Bean (LMP, group 3)
16. Mike Collins (CMP, group 3)
17. Charlie Duke (LMP, group 5)
18. Gordon Fullerton (CAPCOM, group 7)
19. Robert Lawrence (Air Force MOL Program) (NOVA Astrospies program)
20. Jim Lovell (CDR, group 2) (Internet Archive interview)
21. Jim McDivitt (CDR, Group 2)
22. Jack Schmitt (LMP, Geologist, group 4)
23. Alan Shepard (CDR, group 1) (Internet Archive interview)
24. Deke Slayton (Chief Astronaut, group 1)
25. Al Worden (CMP, group 5)

Engineers

26. Don Arabian, MSC Mission Planning and Analysis
27. Max Faget, MSC Spacecraft Designer (Internet Archive interview 1) (Internet Archive interview 2) (Internet Archive reminisence)
28. Margaret Hamilton, MIT Computer Programmer (Video, Video)
29. Shirley Hinson, MSC Mathematician
30. Andrew Hobokan, Grumman RASPO
31. Caldwell Johnson, MSC Spacecraft Designer
32. Richard Johnson, MSC Crew Systems Division
33. Katherine Johnson, Langley Mathematician
34. Owen Maynard, MSC Lunar Module
35. James McBaron, MSC Spacesuits
36. Richard Nafzger, GSFC Television
37. Cathy Osgood, MSC Mathematician
38. Bill Tindall, MSC Mission Planning

Operations

39. Steve Bales, MSC LM Guidance Flight Controller
40. Stanley Faber, MSC Simulation
41. Chuck Deiterich, Retro Flight Controller
42. Hector Garcia, MSC Real Time Computer Center
43. Jose Garcia, KSC Instrumentation
44. Walt Kapryan, KSC Launch Director
45. Chris Kraft, MSC Director of Flight Operations
46. Gene Kranz, MSC Flight Director (Internet Archive interview 1) (Internet Archive interview 2) (Internet Archive interview 3) (Internet Archive interview 4)
47. Sy Liebergot, MSC CSM Electrical Systems Flight Controller
48. Ann Montgomery, KSC Crew Systems
49. JoAnn Morgan, KSC Launch Instrumentation Controller (There is also an interview available on ELMS)
50. Frances Northcutt, MSC Flight Dynamics Support Room (see also Makers: Women in Space)
51. John O'Neill, MSC Flight Planning
52. Rocco Petrone, KSC Director of Launch Operations (also NASA HQ Apollo Program Director) (a biography in Italian is also available)
53. Ernie Reyes, KSC Preflight Operations
54. Tom Sanzone, Hamilton Standard PLSS
55. John Saxon, Honeysuckle Creek
56. Bob Sieck, KSC Spacecraft Test Team
57. Phil Shaffer, MSC Flight Dynamics Flight Controller

Support

54. Maureen Bowen, MSC Flight Operations Secretary
55. John Holland, MSC Photographic Division
56. Paul LaChance, MSC Flight Food and Nutrition
57. Harvey Hartman, MSC Personnel Management
58. Kenneth Haynes, White Sands Procurement
59. Dee O'Hara, MSC Nurse
60. Alan Rochford, MSC Spacesuit Technician
61. Josie Soper, NASA HQ Secretary

Scientists

62. Carroll Alley, UMD Physics
63. George Carruthers, Naval Research Laboratory
64. Farouk El-Baz, Bellcom Lunar Orbit Science Planning
65. Jim Head, Bellcom Luner Surface Science Planning
66. Wilmot Hess, MSC Director of Science and Applications
67. Bill Muehlberger, UT Austin Geology
68. Gene Shoemaker, US Geological Survey
69. Lee Silver, Cal Tech
70. Jerry Weisner, President’s Science Advisor (Oral history on early career)

Politicians

71. Clinton Anderson, Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences
72. Don Fuqua, House Committee on Science and Astronautics
73. Lyndon Johnson, President (part 2)
74. Olin Teague, House Committee on Science and Astronautics

Media

75. Jay Barbree, NBC
76. Sue Butler
77. Walter Cronkite, CBS
78. Paul Haney, MSC Public Affairs
79. Jack King, KSC Public Affairs
80. Robert McCall, Artist
81. Jack Riley, MSC Public Affairs
82. Julian Scheer, NASA HQ Public Affairs
83. John Noble Wilford, New York Times (an oral history of his personal life is also available as audio)

Soviet Union

83. Boris Chertok, Engineer
84. Yuri Gagarin, Cosmonaut
85. Sergei Korolev, Chief Designer
86. Alexi Leonov, Cosmonaut
87. Valentina Tereshkova, Cosmonaut

Other Public Figures

88. Jerrie Cobb, Pilot (member of the “Mercury 13”)