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- I.
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- Unmanned Lunar Exploration and
the Need for a Lunar Orbiter.
- - The call for a
program of exploration.
- - Mustering for the
challenge of space.
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- II.
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- Toward a Lightweight Lunar
Orbiter.
- - The Surveyor
program.
- - Early Apollo
impact on lunar orbiter planning.
- - The Centaur
rocket program.
- - The search for a
lightweight orbiter.
- - OSS-OMSF
cooperative planning.
- - The Scherer
group's report.
- - Problems at
JPL.
- - Langley enters
the picture.
- - Establishing
management arrangements.
- - Langley develops
the request for proposal document.
- - Stipulations of
the request for proposal document.
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- III.
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- Beginning the Lunar Orbiter
Program.
- - Congress
questions NASA on orbiter.
- - The lunar orbiter
project office is established.
- - Preparing for
contract bids.
- - The Langley
source evaluation board.
- - The lunar orbiter
proposals.
- - The Boeing lunar
orbiter proposal.
- - The Eastman Kodak
photographic system.
- - Selecting the
lunar orbiter contractor.
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- IV.
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- NASA and Boeing Negotiate a
Contract.
- - Early Boeing
preparations.
- - NASA preparations
for contract negotiations.
- - Congressional
criticism of contractor choice.
- - No duplication of
effort.
- - NASA solely
responsible for photographic data.
- - Langley-JPL
working relations.
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- V.
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- Implementing the
Program.
- - Early funding
considerations.
- - Boeing
negotiations with subcontractors.
- - NASA
cost-reduction efforts.
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- VI.
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- The Lunar
Orbiter Spacecraft.
- - A general
description.
- - Early design,
fabrication, and testing problems.
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- VII.
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- Building the Spacecraft:
Problems and Resolutions.
- - Experiments for
lunar orbiter.
- - Other potential
experiments.
- - Preliminary
mission planning activities.
- - Testing
procedures and program reviews.
- - Problem areas:
Last quarter 1964 to first half
1965.
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- VIII.
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- Lunar Orbiter Mission
Objectives and Apollo Requirements.
- - OSSA and OMSF
Planning Activities.
- - Developing mission
designs.
- - The ad hoc
Surveyor/Orbiter utilization committee
(SOUC).
- - Presentation of
mission A.
- - Funding and
technical problems - 1965.
- - The status of the
Boeing contract.
- - Spacecraft
compatibility with launch and tracking
facilities.
- - Flight recording
equipment.
- - A change in delivery
incentive.
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- IX.
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- Missions I, II, and III:
Apollo-Site Search and Verification.
- - Preparations for the
first launch.
- - The first
launch.
- - Results of the first
mission.
- - Prelude to mission
II.
- - The plan for mission
II.
- - The second
mission.
- - The third orbiter
mission.
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- X.
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- Missions
IV and V: The Lunar Surface Explored.
- - Preparing for the
fourth mission.
- - The fourth orbiter
mission.
- - Preparations for
the fifth mission.
- - Lunar orbiter V
mission objectives.
- - The final
mission.
- - The end of the
operational phase.
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- XI.
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- Conclusions: Lunar Orbiter's
Contribution to Space Exploration.
- - A sixth orbiter
mission?
- - Apollo mission
planning and lunar orbiter data.
- - Results of
non-photographic lunar orbiter
experiments.
- - A meaning for the
lunar orbiter achievements.
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- XII.
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Lunar Orbiter
Photography.
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