_Live From Cape Canaveral_ - Jay Barbree [131]
Johnson, Lyndon B. attitude toward space program
elected president
garnering NASA center in Texas
inheriting presidency
politicizing Apollo project
signing Civil Rights Act
Journalist in Space Project, xi–xii
Juno 1
Jupiter-C
Kamanin, Lev
Kennedy, John F.
assassination
assessing NASA
authorizing moon landing
fulfilling moon-landing goal of
with John Glenn
understanding Soviet inferiority
King, Jack
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kitchell, Jim
Kitty Hawk
Kolcum, Harry
Korolev, Sergei
Korzun, Valeri
Kraft, Chris
Kranz, Gene
Kubasov, Valeri
Laika
Landwirth, Henri
Lane, John
“lemon” simulator
Leonov, Aleksei A.
Liberty Bell Seven
Liebergot, Sy
Lindsey, Steve
Linenger, Jerry
Lounge, John “Mike,”
Lousma, Jack
Lovell, James Apollo 8 mission
Apollo 13 mission. See Apollo 13
describing views of moon/Earth
Gemini 7 mission
Gemini 12 mission
NASA hiring
photograph
Lovell, Marilyn
Lucid, Shannon
lunar module (LM) Apollo 9 tests
Apollo 10 tests
as Apollo 13 lifeboat
composition
limited operation abilities
test requirements
Manned Spacecraft Center
Mattingly, Ken
Max Q
McAllister, Mike
McAuliffe, Sharon Christa
McCafferty, Riley
McCall, Gene
McCool, Willie
McCormick, Robert
McDivitt, James
McElroy, Neil. H.
Mercury project. See Freedom Seven; Mercury Seven; Project Mercury Mercury Seven chimpanzees and
drag races
first-to-go decision
Gemini Nine honoring
leaving base for motel
practical jokes
qualifications and screening
response to Swallow flight
selection
supporting Deke Slayton
traffic-cop incident
See also specific astronaut names
Merritt Island
Mir Americans training on
continuous American presence on
docking problem
emergency escape vehicles lost
fire aboard
origin of
Mitchell, Ed
Molko, David
Molly Brown
moon descriptions of, from first orbit
first landing
first orbit around
golfing on
gravitational pull of
origin deciphered
other side of, discoveries
rocks and samples
Shepard weeping on
See also Apollo mission names
moonwalk (first)
Armstrong’s first words during
camera shots from
collecting samples
description of Earth during
description of surroundings
experiences during
first step
mementos for dead astronauts/cosmonauts
placing seismometer during
planting flag during
moonwalk (second mission)
moonwalk (third mission)
Morgado, Javier
Morgan, Barbara
Morris, Frieda
Morrow, Lola
Moser, Robert
Mueller, Merrill
Musgrave, Story
N–1 rocket
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) birth of
finest hour
going to Texas
Manned Spacecraft Center
Mission Control
response to Swallow flight
slowdown orders
Navias, Rob
NB.C. astronaut training coverage
Atlas 10B report
author starting at
covering every moon flight
first-ever breaking news coverage
Sputnik reports
Neal, Roy
Neilon, John
Nelson, Bill
Nelson, George “Pinky,”
Nesbitt, Steve
Nixon, Richard Apollo 13 celebratory visit
calling Marilyn Lovell
promising return to moon
Watergate
Northshield, Shad
O’Brien, Soledad
Odyssey
See also
Apollo 13 O’Malley, Thomas J.
orbit around moon, first
circumlunar
Eisenhower message in
See also Atlas 10B (Project Score)
first American in. See Friendship Seven
first American satellite in
first man in
first satellite in. See Sputnik
Project Mercury stretching limits
White House ultimatum for
Orion
Page, George
Pentagon space program
Polaris launch
Porter, Steve
Powell, Bruce
Powers, John “Shorty,”
practical jokes
Proctor, Ed
Project Apollo disaster spawning new management
end of
Grissom problems with
lunar module (LM) tests
organization incompetence
politization of
reason for
Saturn 1B test flight
See also specific Apollo missions
Project Gemini
adjusting first crew
astronauts
See also Gemini
Nine changing orbit levels
Project Gemini
(cont.) compared to Project Mercury
Deke Slayton management roles
praise for
purpose of
testing maneuvers for moon project
See also specific Gemini missions
Project Mercury-Atlas