National Air and Space Museum Archives

United States Manned Space Program Manuals Collection [Donald Thompson]

Summary

Collection ID:
NASM.2013.0031
Creators:
North American Rockwell Corp
Dates:
bulk 1960s-1970s
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
22 Cubic feet
(22 boxes)
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 22 cubic feet of manned space manuals from the Gemini, Apollo and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) programs. The collection consists of reports, manuals and working papers, including mission reports, flight crew logs, and technical and crew debriefings.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Donald B. Thompson was employed in the Downey, California, Project Integration Office of North American Rockwell from 1962 until his retirement in 1994. As Thompson's office monitored the testing and mission activities of most boilerplate, prototype and flown spacecraft, they maintained a large collection of NASA and company documents relating to all North American contracts with NASA, especially the Apollo, Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) programs. Thompson later removed these documents from the Downey plant to preserve them for posterity as they were scheduled for destruction. The documents were later returned to North American Rockwell, where they were gone through to remove company-sensitive material and then forwarded to Johnson Space Center for further review before being donated to the National Air and Space Museum.

Administration

Immediate Source of Acquisition
NASA, Gift, 2013

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access.
Preferred Citation
United States Manned Space Program Manuals Collection [Donald Thompson] , Accession 2013-0031, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Conditions Governing Use
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests

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