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Advanced Reconnaissance System, 33, 48, 48n, 53n; see also Project Feed Back and Weapon System 117L
Aerobee-Hi (rocket), 45
Aerojet Engineering Company, 3
Aeronautical Board, viii, 9, 16, 17, 20; see also Joint Research and Development Board
Air Force Research and Development Policy Council, 49
Air Materiel Command, 23, 23n
Air Research and Development Command, 30-33, 31n, 36, 37, 39, 46, 47, 49, 53
Armed Forces Policy Council, 35
Army Air Forces Scientific Advisory Group, 13n
Army Ballistic Missiles Agency, 13n, 42
Army Ordnance Corps, 42
Arnold, General of the Armies H.H., 8n, 10n, 13n, 18
Artificial Satellite, The, 6, 41
Atlas (missile), 31, 44-46, 48, 49, 51
Atomic Energy Commission, 30, 31
B-29 Aircraft, 15
Bombardment Missiles Branch (Wright Air Development Center), 33
Bowen, Dr. H. Lee, vi, 9n-11n, 15n-17n, 19n
Boyd, Major General Albert, 40n, 47
British Interplanetary Society, 41, 42
Bureau of Aeronautics (Navy), 8, 9, 16
Bush, Vannevar, iv, 8n, 13n, 18, 18n
China, 28
Clarke, Arthur C., 6n, 42, 43n
Cleaver, A.V., 42
Cogswell, Captain W. P. (Navy), 9
Committee on Guided Missiles (Joint Research and Development Board), 17, 25
Communication and Navigation Laboratory (Wright Air Development Center), 30
Congress of the United States, 21, 43, 46
Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Company, 19
Craig, Lieutenant General H.A., 22
Crawford, Major General A.R., 21n, 23, 23n, 25n
Department of Defense, 13n, 17, 20, 51, 54, 55
Department of State, 7n
Deputy Chief of Staff, Development (Air Force), 22, 30, 49 56
Discoverer (satellite), 49
Doolittle, J.A., 37
Dornberger, Walter, 4, 4n, 5n, 6n
Douglas Aircraft Corporation, 8, 10, 11, 13n
Eaker, Lieutenant General I.C., l6n
Feed Back, see Project Feed Back
First Symposium on Space Flight, 41
Forrestal, J.V. Secretary of Defense, 5
Ganswindt, Hermann, 2
Gardner, Trevor, 36, 38
Gavin, Lieutenant General J.M., 42n, 46n, 50, 51n
General Operational Requirement (GOR) No. 80, 36, 38
Genez, Lieutenant Colonel V.M., vi, 32
German Society for Space Flight, 3
Glasser, Colonel O.J., 52, 53n
Goddard, Professor Robert H., v, vii, 2-4, 6
Greer, Major General R.E., vi
Grimminger Report, 5, 41
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories, 3, 8
Guided Missile Development Division (Army Ballistic Missiles Agency), 42n
Guided Missiles Study Group (Department of Defense), 35
Hall, Commander Harvey (Navy), 8, 9
Hohmann, Dr. Walter, 4
House of Representatives, 43
Huntsville, Alabama, 42n
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Scientific Advisory Group, 37
International Geophysical Year, 6, 41, 43, 44, 47, 48, 51
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 3
Joint Research and Development Board, 17, 20
Journal of Applied Physics, 5, 41
King, Lieutenant Colonel W.G., Jr., 38
Kistiakowsky, Professor G.B., 40n
Knerr, Major General H.J., 9
Korea, Republic of, 28
Leahy, Fleet Admiral W.D., 52n
LeMay, General C.E. , 9-11, 37
Lipp, J.E., 28n, 32n
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, 38, 52n
Loki (rocket), 42, 44
London (England), 4, 41, 42
Martin (Glenn L. Martin Company), 8, 27, 38
Matador (missile), 31
McClellan, Major General H.W., 9
Millikan, Dr. C.B. , 40n
Mitchell, Major General William, xiii
"MOUSE" (satellite), 42
MX-2226 (project), 33, 37n, 38n; see also Weapon System 117L
National Security Council, v, 45, 50
Navaho (missile), 19
New York, 41, 42
North American Aviation, Incorporated, 8
Oberth, Hermann, 2-6, 12
Ordnance Missiles Laboratory (Army), 42n
ORTV (Orbital Research and Test Vehicle), 46
Peenemunde (Rocket Test Station, Germany), 3, 4, 8
Pentagon (building), 11, 29, 36, 47, 48, 52, 53
Poland, 4
Power, Lieutenant General T.S., 37, 39, 40, 49, 53
Project Feed Back, 30, 33
Project 1115, 33, 36
Project Orbiter, ix, 6, 44, 45
Project Pied Piper, 38
Putt, Lieutenant General D.L. , 27, 37, 49, 50
Quarles, D.A., 44
Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 30, 38
RAND Corporation, original program, 12; first satellite study, 13-17; 1947
satellite proposals, 21; expansion of studies, 12; satellite utility
studies, 29; April 1951 proposals, 30-32; contracts for subsystem
analyses, 32-33; urges system development program, 35-36
Redstone Arsenal, 50
Redstone (missile), 42, 44, 50
Research and Development Board, viii, 17-20, 25-27, 30
Research and Development Committee, viii, 9, 16
Richardson, Brigadier General W.L., 9
Riepe, Lieutenant Colonel Q.A., 38
Sanger-Bredt Theory, 4n
Schriever, Brigadier General B.A. 39, 40, 48, 51, 53
Scientific Advisory Board, 37
Scientific Advisory Committee, 39
Scientific satellite, v, 30, 39, 41, 44-48, 50-53
Second Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, 41
Sessums, Major General J.W., 39
Senate Committee on Atomic Energy, 13n, 30, 31
Singer, Dr. Fred, 42
Snark (missile), 31
Soper, Colonel Ray, vi,
Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), 7, 28
Spaatz, General Carl, 22
Space (definition), 1
Sputnik, 1, 11, 27
Stewart Committee, 44-46, 49, 50, 52
Stewart, Dr. H.J., 44
Strategic Missiles Evaluation Committee, 35
Symington, W.S., 16n, 19n
Talbott, H.E. (Secretary of the Air Force), 35
Thor (missile), 49
Thor-Agena (space vehicle), 49
Titan (missile), 39
Tsiolkovski, Konstantin, 2, 4, 12, 43
Tsiolkovski Medal, 43
Twining, General N.F., 35, 37
United States Air Force (Creation), 21
United States Navy, viii, 8-10, 16, 18, 20, 26, 27, 30, 41-46
V-2 (Missile), v, vi, 3, 4, 8, 15
Vandenberg, General H.S., 22-26
Vanguard (satellite program), 15, 45-47, 50, 51, 54
Viking (rocket missile), 20, 45
von Braun, Wernher, 5, 42, 43
von Karman, Dr. Theodore, 3
von Neumann, Professor John, 35-37, 39, 44, 45
Weapon System 117L, 39-41, 46, 47, 51, 52, 54
Wehrmacht, 3, 4
Western Development Division, x, 37, 39-41, 45, 47, 49
White Sands Proving Ground (Army), 27
Wiesner, Professor J.B., 40n
Wilson, C.E. (Secretary of Defense), xii, 35, 43
"World Series" (satellite proposal), 44-46
Worthman, Colonel P.E., vi, 47n, 48n
Wright Air Development Center, 30, 33, 38, 40
Wright Brothers, 13, 15
Wright Field, 21, 23, 24, 29
X-1 (Research Aircraft), xii
York, Dr. H. F., 40n
Ziolkovsky, see Tsiolkovski, Konstatin