Source Notes

Chapter 19: Apollo 4: The Trial Run

  1. 1. OMSF, Apollo Program Flight Summary Report, Apollo Missions AS-201 through Apollo 8, pp. 13-17; MSFC, Technical Information Summary, AS-501, Apollo Saturn V Flight Vehicle, R-ASTR-S-67-65, 15 Sept. 1967.

  2. 2. "NASA Announces Changes in Saturn Missions," NASA release 63-246, 30 Oct. 1963.

  3. 3. Dir., Apollo Program, "Clarification of Apollo Saturn IB and V Flight Mission Designations," 12 Apr. 1965.

  4. 4. MSFC, Technical Information Summary, AS-501, pp. 24-75.

  5. 5. OMSF, Apollo Program Directive No. 4D, 1 July 1966; No. 4E, 22 Sept. 1966; No. 4F, 30 Nov. 1966; Proffitt interview; NASA, Sixteenth Semiannual Report to Congress, 1 July-31 Dec. 1966, pp. 49, 51-52. See also NASA, Seventeenth Semiannual Report to Congress, 1 Jan.-30 June 1967, p. 11, for information on the spacer.

  6. 6. KSC,"LC-39 Site Activation Status Report," 14 Sept. 1966; Spaceport News, 15 Sept. 1966; KSC, "Apollo 4 (AS-501) Daily Status Reports," Sept.-6 Oct. 1966.

  7. 7. KSC, "Apollo 4 Daily Status Reports," 29 Nov., 1, 2, 6, 7, 13 Dec. 1966.

  8. 8. Ibid., Dec. 1966 and Jan. 1967; KSC, "Program Milestone Data - Apollo," 15 July 1971.

  9. 9. KSC, "Apollo 4 Daily Status Reports," Feb.-Mar. 1967 (see 16 Mar. for number of wiring discrepancies in spacecraft); NASA, Seventeenth Semiannual Report to Congress, 1 Jan.-30 June 1967, pp. 11-12.

  10. 10. 10. Spaceport News, 3 Mar. 1966; Fowler interview.

  11. 11. KSC, "Apollo 4 Daily Status Reports," Feb. 1967; Spaceport News, 15 Feb. 1968.

  12. 12. KSC, "LC-39 Site Activation Status Report," 19, 26 Apr. 1967.

  13. 13. NASA release 67-132, summarized in Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1967, p. 164; KSC, "Apollo 4 Daily Status Reports," May-Aug. 1967; Spaceport News, 31 Aug. 1967.

  14. 14. KSC, Catalog of Launch Vehicle Tests, Saturn V, Apollo/Saturn V, Revision 1, 15 June 1966, GP-244.

  15. 15. Ibid., p. 1-27; Carlson interview, 5 Sept. 1974.

  16. 16. KSC, Catalog of Launch Vehicle Tests, Saturn V. p. 2-18.

  17. 17. Ibid., pp. 1-18, 1-28.

  18. 18. KSC, "Apollo 11 (AS-506) Daily Status Report," 25 Mar. 1969.

  19. 19. Catalog of Launch Vehicle Tests, Saturn V, pp. 7-1 through 7-13.

  20. 20. Ibid., pp. 9-1 through 9-43; KSC, Apollo/Saturn Program Development/Operations Plan, 2: 3-90 and 3-93 provide a comparison of the two tests and their objectives.

  21. 21. KSC, Catalog of Launch Vehicle Tests, Saturn V, pp. 9-1 through 9-43.

  22. 22. Ibid., pp. 9-21 and 9-25.

  23. 23. Ibid., p. 9-3.

  24. 24. Ibid.; Donnelly interview, 19 June 1974.

  25. 25. Harris interview; Carlson interview, 5 Sept. 1974.

  26. 26. KSC, "Program Milestone Data, Apollo," 6 June 1973.

  27. 27. KSC, "Apollo 4 Daily Status Reports," Sept. 1967; Donnelly interview, 19 June 1974.

  28. 28. KSC, "Apollo 4 Daily Status Reports," 27 Sept.-13 Oct. 1967; Richard S. Lewis, Appointment on the Moon: The Inside Story of America's Space Venture (New York: Viking Press, 1968), p. 406.

  29. 29. Donnelly interview, 19 Nov. 1970.

  30. 30. NASA release 67-274 and Baltimore Sun, 26 Oct. 1967, p. A6, summarized in Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1967, p. 319.

  31. 31. Phillips to Mueller, memo for record, 5 Sept. 1968; KSC, "Apollo 4 Daily Status Reports," 19-20 Oct. 1967.

  32. 32. Spaceport News, 23 Nov. 1967.

  33. 33. Ibid.

  34. 34. Ibid.

  35. 35. KSC Information and Protocol Operations Plan - Apollo 4 Mission, pp. 1-4.

  36. 36. Ibid.

  37. 37. J. E. Ballou, GAO Area Audit Mgr., Atlanta, to L. Melton, KSC, 30 Mar. 1965; Aviation Week 89 (23 Sept. 1968): 74; H. L. DeLung, Acting Regional Mgr., GAO, Atlanta, to Debus, 20 Aug. 1965. The authors recognize their reliance on thorough researches of Maj. James J. Frangie in this section.

  38. 38. Debus to DeLung, 15 Oct. 1965.

  39. 39. R. J. Madison, Mgr., GAO Regional Off., Atlanta, to Debus, 6 July 1966. See also p. 16 of draft report, Comptroller General of the U.S., "Review of Launch Complex 39 Facilities for the Saturn V Vehicle, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, NASA," undated, accompanying letter of Clerio P. Pin, Assoc. Dir., GAO, to Webb, 8 June 1967 (hereafter cited as "GAO Draft Report, KSC, 1967"); Mueller to William Parker, Asst. Dir., Civil Accounting and Auditing Div., GAO, Washington, 16 Aug. 1966.

  40. 40. Melton, memo for record, 29 Aug. 1966; Malcolm S. Stringer, memo for record, "GAO Review of Justification for Redundant and Duplicate Launch Complex 39 Facilities, 31 Oct. 1967,"

  41. 41. Raymond Einhorn, Dir. of Audits, to Debus, "GAO Draft Report on Review of Launch Complex 39 Facilities for the Saturn V Vehicle, KSC, NASA," 13 June 1967; "GAO Draft Report, KSC, 1967," p. 24.

  42. 42. Debus to Mueller, 19 July 1967, in NASA Hq. History Office; Einhorn to Debus, 15 Sept. 1967.

  43. 43. Raymond Middleton to KSC Liaison Representative with GAO, 30 Oct. 1967; Melton, memo for record, 19 Oct. 1967; Debus to Mueller, 2 Nov. 1967, in NASA Hq. History Office; Harold B. Finger, Assoc. Admin. for Organization and Management, to Clerio P.. Pin, Assoc. Dir., GAO, Washington, 24 Jan. 1968, with enclosures, pp. 10-12, NASA Hq. History Office.

  44. 44. Pin to Finger, 27 Mar. 1968, in NASA Hq. History Office.

  45. 45. Stringer interview; Finger to Pin, 24 Jan. 1968, NASA Hq. History Office.

  46. 46. House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 1964 NASA Authorization, 88th Cong., 1st sess., 1963, pt. 1, p. 5; pt. 2, pp. 126-27.

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