SP-4212
On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet. 1958-1978

 

[525-535] INDEX

 

Abelson, Philip H., 80-81, 413
Able M (launch vehicle stage). 15, 38-39
Acord, James D, 194n
Adams, Mac C, 127n
Advanced Mariner (see also Mariner-Mars 1959), 96, 99-108, 439
Advanced Rescarch Projects Agency (ARPA), 14, 25-27, 29, 32, 56
Aeroneutronics Div., Ford Motor Co., 90
AeroshelI stagnation-pressure instrument (Mars atmosphere study), 374-75, 378
Agnew, Spiro T., 186n
Ahearn, David B., 217
Air Force. U.S, 10, 15, 25-28, 33, 37, 38
Air Force Research and Development Command, 32
Alba (Mars: albedo feature), 314
Alba Patera (Martian volcano), 350, 364
Allen, J. Denton, 79
American Institute of Biological Sciences, 56
Ames Research Center, 66, 68, 69, 71-73, 100, 103, 107, 110, 122, 124, 128, 230, 232, 233
Amino acids, 52-53
Anderson, Clinton P., 107, 114
Anderson, Don L., 226-27, 228, 288n, 323 ill.,392
Anderson, John W., 254, 255
Anderson, Roger A., 122, 123
Antarctica, 235-36, 408
Apollinares (Mars), 305
Apollo Applications Program (AAP), 114, 117, 119, 135, 142, 143, 189-90
Apollo fire (Apollo 204), 109, 113
Apollo missions
Apollo 11, 185
Apollo 14, 281
Apollo 15, 353
Apollo 16, 299, 353
Apollo 17, 353
Apollo program, 1, 34, 42, 80, 83, 105-08, 119, 128n, 142, 144, 189, 300
Apollo Telescope Mount, 142
Appold, N. C., 9n
Arandas (Mars). 349 ill., 369 ill.
Arecibo radio astronomy antenna, 320 ill., 321, 322, 334, 335, 339-41, 344
Argon, 260, 319, 323, 372, 376-78
Argyre Planioa (Mars), 367 ill.
Armed Forces Committee on Bioastronautics, 63
Army, U.S, 17, 19, 25-26, 27
Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), 10, 14, 17, 18, 26, 28, 38
Arnold, James R., 17n, 145n, 147n
Arsia Silva (Manian volcano), 294 ill
Arsia Mons (Martian volcano), 364, 366 ill., 369
Astor, John Jacob, 3
Astrogeology Center, 332
Astronautics Division (General Dynamics Corp.), 15n
Astronomy (see also Radar, Radio science), 10-12
Atlantis (Manian region), 78 ill
Atlas (ICBM), 15-16, 27, 31-32
Atlas-Agena (launch vehicle), 27, 32, 39-40, 45, 48-49, 74, 75, 437, 439, 465
Atlas-A,gena B, 27-28, 30, 435, 465-66
Atlas-Agena D, 75, 465, 467
Atlas-Centaur (launch vehicle), 27, 30-32, 33ill., 34, 39, 106, 122, 123, 136, 434, 435, 439, 441, 443, 445, 465, 468
Mariner program, 37-39, 41, 43-45, 47-50, 74, 83, 94, 107-08, 134,156, 159, 160 ill.,465, 468
Viking program, 196
Atlas-Vega (launch vehicle), 26-28
Atomic Energy Commission, U.S., 102
Attitude comrol system, 156-57. 246, 248, 300
Aurora Sinus (Mars), 177, 291
Automated biology laboratory (see also Viking, biology instrument), 66
Automation (see also Computer: Viking, lander), 244-49
AVCO Corp.. 88-98, 124-26
 
"Badger, Mr.," 419
Ball Brothers Research Corp.. 68, 230
Baum, William A., 278n, 279, 288n, 304, 310 ill, 332
Bendix Aerospace Systems Div.. 221, 228, 229, 252, 470
Berkner, Lloyd V., 12-13, 15, 80n
Biemann, Klaus, 223n. 228, 229, 263. 264. 278, 308, 319, 353, 377, 407-09
Billings, Bruce H., 63n
Binder, Alan B., 224, 278n, 286, 288n. 293, 299, 304
Biochemistry (see also Gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, Gulliver, Minivator, Mutivator, Wolf Trap), 51-54
Biolo,gical comamination. 55-56, 87, 104, 123, 244
Bioscience Advisory Comminec (NASA). 56, 57
Blanchard, Robert C., 317-18
Blasius, Karl R., 369, 372
Blum, Harold F., 58
Boeing Co., 90, 101, 124, 148, 204, 216-17
Booster. See Launch vehicle.
Bowen, Frederick W., Jr., 173n
Bowman, Gary, 266
Boyce, Peter, 289
Boyer, William J., 152, 173n
Briggs, Geoffrey. A., 278n. 287-88, 322n
Bronk Detlev, 13
Broome, C;. Calvin, 204, 222, 223n, 229. 232, 239, 240, 264-65, 420-21
Brown, Clarence T.. Jr, 122n
Brown, Harrison 17n, 29
Brummer, Edmund A., 153, 173
Budget, Bureau of, 100, 107, 135, 141-42, 168,188-89
Budget and program costs, NASA (see also Gas chromatograph-massspectrometer), 10, 102, 134-35, 117-19, 141, 188
Apollo, 80, 113, 119, 250-51
cutbacks, 34, 83, 85, 97, 99, 100, 118, 141-43, 185-89
launch vehicle, 27, 28, 106-07, 119
Mariner, 80, 93, 94, 108, 131, 136, 141, 158, 159-60, 188
Viking. 169, 172, 186-92, 212-15. 219-20, 225, 251, 254, 267-70, 279, 283-81, 297, 307-08, 341 ill,, 358 ill.. 422, 452
Voyager, xv, 83, 85, 86, 89, 93, 96, 100-02, 105, 107, 113-19, 124, 128, 136,141
Burcham, Donald P., 85, 108
 
California Institure of Technology, 17, 18
Calvin Melvin, 52, 63, 91
Camera (see also Television: Vidicon)
Mariner 1971, 163, 181-82, 280-81, 283, 290, 297
Viking, 207, 220-21, 251, 253, 279-83, 291, 293, 297, 380-81, 383-84
Cameron, Roy E, 235
Canal (Mars), 2-3. 179
Cape Canaveral, 26, 75
Capen, Charles F., Jr., 103n, 289n
Capri (Mars), 345
Capsule bus (Voyager). 127-28
Carbon dioxide (Mars), 372-73, 376, 378, 391
Carey,F. X., 257 ill.
Carley, William J., 194n
Carr. Michael H,. 282 ill,
Viking imaging system. 280-81, 293-94, 371
Viking I data, 331-32, 335, 338, 364-65
Viking site certification, 284. 306, 311 ill, 323 ill., 346, 348, 353, 359-60, 422
Carter, Arlen f ., 311 ill.
Cartography (Mars), 129, 287n 288. 290. 292-93. 298, 299, 318, 352, 358
Case, Richard K, 182
Cavanagh, Jerome P., 117
Centaur (launch vehicle upper stage). See Atlas Centaur, Saturn IB, Saturn V, Titan IIIC Centaur, Titan IllE-Centaur.
Centaur Project Technical Team, 33, 38
Cherniack, A. Earl, 194n
"Chicken soup" experiment (gas-exchange life-detection experiment), 231, 400-03
Chryse (Mars), 305, 314, 330, 332-33 ill, 334, 337, 354, 357, 359, 371, 404, 411
Chryse Planitia (Mars), 314, 334, 340 ill., 341, 12, 344, 347, 371, 390
Civilian-Military Liaison Committee. 28
Clark, Bemon C., 418
Clark, John F., 19
Cole, Charles W, 140, 170, 172
Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), 56
Commoner, Barry, 80-81
Computer, Viking, 156, 244-45, 248, 253-56, 257 ill., 288, 337, 382 ill., 395-96, 398
Congress, U.S., (see also House of Representatives; Senate), 22, 42, 83-84, 100, 113, 128, 134-35, 141, 143, 146, 151, 186-88, 270
Consolidated Vultee Aircralt Corp, (Convair), 15n
Contamination, biological. See Biological contamination.
Contract, 18, 27, 29, 68, 69, 88-91, 95-98,123-25, 172, 216-20, 228-29, 255, 470-72
Coprates (Mars), 290
Cortright, Edgar M., 38, 43, 45, 131, 139n, 141
Titan Mars, 148-51, 204-05
Viking, 84 ill, 132,183, 186, 212, 237-39, 252. 256, 321
Voyager, 102. 103, 109, 127
Cowie, Dean, 63n
Crabill, Norman L., 153, 305n, 310 ill, 317, 322n, 323, 327, 345, 347, 349-53
Crater (see also individual crater names)
Lunar, 77, 176-78, 314, 353
Martian, 76-77, 78 ill., 176-77, 178 ill., 281. 290-91 300 ill. 331, 332-33 ill. 337-39, 340 ill., 347 ill., 349 ill, 350, 352, 355 ill., 365, 366 ill., 367 ill., 368, 369 ill.
Crocker, Joseph A., 30
Cromie, Robert, 3
Cunningham, N. William, 43, 158
Cutts, James A., 305n, 331, 332, 339, 372
Cydonia (Mars), 314, 315, 347 ill, 348, 371
 
Darwin, Charles R., 51, 54
Davies, Richard, 63n
Deep Space Network, 113, 157, 193, 271-72, 274. 320 ill., 355-56, 395, 396, 415, 422
Defense, Dept. of, 14, 15n, 28, 38, 43, 102, 189
Deimos (Martian moon), 28 ill., 290, 416
De Lauer, Richard D., 239
Dembling, Paul G., 217
Derbyshire, George A., 63n
Discoverer 13, 37
Dollfus, Audouin, 7n
Donlan, Charles J., 124-25, 139
Donovan, Allen F., 145n
Doty, Paul M., 63n
Douglas Aircratt Co., 15n
Downing, Thomas N., 187
Draley, Eugene C., 128. 139
Dryden, Hugh L., 15, 17, 106, 111
DuBridge, Lee A., 55n, 80n, 186n
Duckett, Roy J., 240
 
Earth, 3 ill, 7n, 32, 51-53, 60, 79, 175-76, 363, 371, 377-78, 391, 414, 418
Earth science, 12-13
EASTEX (Panel on Extraterrestrial Life, East Coast), 63
Eberhart, Jonathan, 412, 419
Eckman, Philip K., 86, 194n
Edwards, Andrew, Jr, 86, 89n
Edwards, Howard B., 223n, 232
Edwards Test Station, Calif., 196
Ehricke, Krafft A., 9n, 15, 31-32
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 15, 18, 19, 27
Elysium Planitia, 416
Eos (Mars), 289, 291
Eshleman, Von R, 145n, 321, 340, 357
Evolution theories. See Life, origin of.
Exobiology. (See also Biological contamination, Extraterrestrial life, Viking biology instrument), 55-82, 95, 99, 147-48, 161, 207-09, 231-32, 234-36, 301-02, 374, 408
Explorer satellite, 14
Explorer 1, 17, 18
Extraterrestrial life ( see aIso Biochemistry, Biological contamination, Exobiology). 1-4, 16, 51-82, 107, 180, 235-36, 281, 283, 293, 307, 390, 404-14
 
Farrell, Win, 332
Farmer, C. Barney, 278n, 284, 288n, 304, 305, 308, 310 ill, 345, 374
Fellows, Robert F., 103n
Fenn, Wallace O., 56n
Findlay, John W, 145n, 146
Flammarion, Nicolas Camille, 2
Fletcher, James C., 252, 255, 268, 304-05, 308, 311-13, 329, 336, 340, 38O
Fontana, Francesco, 4 ill
Forsythe, Dixon L., 43
Frank, Ron, 264
Freeman, Herbert, 63n
Froehlich, John E, 18-19
 
Gagarin, Yuri, 42
Galilei, Galileo, 2
Galleher,V. Roben, 194n
Gamber,Terry 310 ill
Gas chromatogaph-mass spectrometer (GCMS), 51, 71 ill, 72-73, 221, 224 ill, 245, 307, 319, 394
costs, 212, 215, 227, 230 ill, 241, 251, 269-70, 283
Mars data, 377, 407-O8, 409
technical problems, 222, 225-29, 252, 253, 261, 264, 398, 399-400
testing 223, 224 ill 237, 261, 263-64
Gas-exchange life-detection experiment. See "Chicken Soup" experiment.
Gates, Clarence R., 14, 36-38
Gaugler, Edward A, 89n
GCMS See Gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer.
GCSC (guidance, comrol, and sequencing computer), See Computer.
Geer, E, Barton, 257 ill
General Dynamics Corp., 27, 32, 90, 159, 271n
General Electric Co., 27, 88-96, 101, 105, 124, 138, 148, 196, 204, 216-217
Geodesy. See Earth science.
Geological Survey, U.S., 298, 309, 359
Girouard, Robert L., 153
Glahn, Earl W, 160
Glennan, T. Keith, 14, 15, 19, 22, 28, 34, 56, 69
Gliozzi, James, 299
Goddard, David R., 56n
Goddard Space Flight Center, 28, 29, 45-47, 56, 100, 122, 213
Goett, Harry J., 24, 49
Goff, Loyal G., 230
Gold, Thomas, 29, 63n, 146
Goldfine Milton T. 194n
Goldstein, Richard, 304
Goldstone deep-space tracking radio antenna, 45-46, 157, 161, 274, 299, 320 ill., 321, 335
Goodlette, John D, 243, 329
Goodman, Clark. 103n, 145n
Goudy, Joseph R., 192,196
Grahame, Kenneth, 419
Gray, Roben H, 173n
Greeley, Ronald, 332, 348, 371
Green, Nathaniel E, 5 ill
Greg, Percy, 3
Ground stations (see also individual names of ground stations), 157
Guastaferro, Angelo, 153
Guest, John E, 345, 348
Gulliver (life detection device), 69, 70 ill, 71, 72-73, 104, 231, 400, 402-03, 405
 
Haldane, J. B. S., 52, 55
Hall, John S., 103n, 145n, 147n
Hamilton Standard Div (United Aircraft Corp ), 252
Handler, Philip, 191
Hargraves, Roben B, 308, 311 ill, 323 ill., 341, 353, 417
Hartline, H. Keffer, 63n
Haurlan, Peter N, 86, 89n
Haystack radio astronomy antenna, 320, 321, 335, 344
Hearth, Donald P, 139, 142, 148, 149
Mariner program, 99, 136
Viking program, 151, 187, 213-15, 270
Voyager program, 85, 86, 88-89, 94, 96, 97, 99-101, 103, 107,109,127n, 130
Heaton, Donald H., 43
Heatshield technology, 122-23, 124, 126
Hellas (Mars), 177, 287, 289. 301, 315
Hellas Planitia (Mars), 345
Hellespontus (Mars), 177
Hench, Stanley B, 194n
Hess, Harry H., 59, 80n, 143, 145n
Hess, Seymour L., 278, 307, 390-92
Hibbs, Albert R., xii-xiii, 19
Hinners, Noel, 267, 268, 269, 270. 303, 310 ill.
Hipparchus, 2
Hitz, Frank, 264
Hoffman, David. 77
Hoffman, S. K., 9n
Honeywell Inc.. Aerospace Div., 252, 254-56, 257 ill., 269, 470
Horner, Richard E, 24, 28-29
Hornig, Donald F., 15, 78 ill., 101
Horowitz, Norman H., 53, 180, 235-36, 401, 403-07 409-10, 412
House of Representatives, U.S., 118
Commitee on Appropriations, 185
Commitee on Science and Astronamics, 24, 45, 142, 187
Select Commitee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, 8
Subcommittee on NASA Oversight, 100
Hubhard, Jerry S., 235
Hueter, Hans, 38
Hughes Aircraft Co., 148, 204, 216-17
Hunter, M. W, 9n
Hutton, Robert E., 288n
Huyghens, Christiaan, 2, 4 ill.
Hyatt, A., 9n
Hydrogen, 376
 
Infrared thermal mapping (IRTM), 324, 352, 353, 360, 371-73, 394
Instrument Research Laboratory (Stanford Univ.), 67, 68
International Council of Scientific Unions, 56
International Geophysical Year (IGY, 1957-1958), 12, 13, 17
International Polar Years, 12
International Scientific Radio Union 13
International Telephone & Telegraph, 90
Imernational lUnion of C.eodesy and Geophysics, 13
Itek Corp., 221, 252, 470
 
Jakobowski,Waher, 140, 173n, 185, 231, 232, 310 ill.
Jastrow, Robert 14, 17, 29
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (set also Deep Space Network), xi, 17-24, 55n, 56-57, 67, 122, 128, 131-34
GCMS, 222-23, 228-29
launch vehicles, 14, 27, 47-49
lunar exploration, 17, 20-24, 26, 28-31, 126
Mariner program, 25, 35-40, 42, 45-47, 49, 75, 131-35, 157-62, 167 ill., 288
Titan Mars program, 138-40, 148,167-68, 205
Viking program, xv, 182, 193-94, 213, 214, 219, 269-70, 422, 451-52, 470
Viking spacecraft, 155-57 169-72 195-201, 203, 221, 261, 274, 286, 302, 323, 332, 344, 395
Voyager program, xv, 85-88, 92-94, 96, 97, 100-01, 103, 108-09, 116, 127
Johannesburg ground station, 157
Johnson, Francis S., 103n, 145n
Johnson, Lyndon B., 78 ill., 101, 118, 135, 141, 146, 151, 159
Johnson, Roy W., 16
Johnson, U. Alexis 186n
Jonash Edmund R. 173n
Juno II (launch vehicle), 26
Jupiter (IRBM), 18
Juventae Fons (Mars), 179
 
Kamen, Manin, 63n
Kaplan, Lewis D.. 93
Karth Joseph 100, 109, 113, 117, 187
Kasei Valley (Mars), 361 ill.
Kautz, Gordon P., 182
Kennedy, John F., 1, 42, 83
Kennedy Space Center (KSC), 159, 160 illus., 271, 272-73, 274, 325
Kepler, Johannes, 2
Kety, Seymour S., 56-57
Kieffer, Hugh H. 278n, 288, 352, 353, 372-73
Kilgore, Edwin C., 122 127n, 128, 268
Killian, James R., 17-18
Kindt, Donald H, 172
Kingsland, Louis, Jr., 322n
Klein, Harold P., 225-26, 227, 232, 233, 266, 307, 310 ill., 348, 353, 400-02, 412
Kochendorfer, Fred D., 43, 89n
Kolden, John R., 194n
Kramer John L. 140
Kramer Robert S., 149
Kullas, Albert J., 169, 173, 252
Kusch, Polycarp, 80n
 
Lam, B. C.,89n
Lander, Viking. See Viking lander.
Lander accelerometer (Mars lower atmosphere study), 373-75, 378
Landing site certification ( Mars: see also Viking I and Viking 2, site selection), 305, 317-18, 331-37, 346, 353, 356
criteria, 281, 285-87, 299, 301-302, 318, 352, 356-61
Mariner data, 277, 284-88, 297, 299-301, 304-05, 313-14, 337, 348, 350, 358
polar sites, 302-05, 306-09, 311-13
radar data, 319-24, 340-45
Viking orbiter data, 181-82, 277-78, 293, 297, 300, 306, 315, 322, 324, 330-31, 340, 342-45, 348, 356-61
Landing vehicle ( Mars: see also Viking entries), 121-24, 126-27
Langley Research Center (LaRC), 128, 131-33
and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, xv, 100, 122-26, 136, 139-40, 155, 172, 194, 205, 229
landing vehicle study, 121-24, 126-27
Titan Mars 73 project, 135,136,138-41,147-51, 167-68
Viking program, 151-53, 169, 206, 213, 216-18. 243 252 256 266
Voyager program, xv, 103-109, 107, 109-10, 125-27
Laser, 357, 361
Lasswitz, Kurd, 4
Iaunch vehicle (see also names of individual launch vehicles and appendixes C and E), 7-10, 19, 25, 27, 31, 35 ill.,83, 119, 123, 129, 160 ill., 326 ill.
Launch window, 18, 30, 32, 34, 49, 74, 94-95, 101, 105
Lava (Mars). See Volcano
Lederberg, Joshua, 54, 145n
biological contamination, 55-56, 104
exobiology, 58, 59, 65, 66-69, 80-81, 91
Viking program 215, 232, 233-34, 278n, 288n, 302-05, 313, 348, 359, 409
Lee, B. Gentry, 323 ill., 325, 327, 330-32, 334, 338, 341, 350-51, 353,