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(Editors: This package contains data on the United Statesmanned space flight program which answer most-asked questionsof the public and the communications media. It is suggestedthat this material be retained in your files.)

THE _MANNED FLIGHT PROGRAMPage

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ProgrampolloDescriptionanned lunar landing, lunar exploration. Equipmentincludes three -man command module, service module,two-man lunar module; three-stage Saturn V launchvehicle.

Scheduleour flights remain in program. Apollo 14 scheduledJan. 31, 1971. Apollo 15, 16, 17 follow at six monthinter-.als. Program achieved 10 unmanned fliglits ofSaturn IB (Apollo 7); six manned flights of Saturn V(Apollos 8 through 13); two moon-orbit flights(Apollo 8, 10); two lunar landing flights (Apollo ll,12); one earth-orbital mission (Apollo 9); one abortedmoon-landing mission (Apollo 13 1, which went aroundmoon and back to earth.

Crewspollo 7:Walter M. Schirra, R. Walter Cunni ngham,Donn F. Eisele; Apollo 8:Frank Borman, James A.Lovell, Jr., William A. Anders; Apollo 9:James A.McDivitt , David R. Scott, Russell L. Schweickart;Apollo 10: Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, EugeneA. Cernan; Apollo 11: Neil A. Armstrong, MichaelCollins , Edwin E. Aldrin; Apollo 12: Charles Conrad,Jr., Richard R. Gordon, Jr., Alan L. Bean; Apollo 13:James A. Lovell, Jr. t r John L. Swigert, Jr., Fred W.Haise, Jr.; Apollo 14: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., StuartA. Roosa, Edgar D. Mitchell; Apollo 15: David R.Scott, Alfred M. Worden, Jr., James B. Irwin.

Program Offici alsr. Rocco A. Petrone, program director; Cheste r M.Lee, mission director; James A. McDivitt, spacecraftprogram manager; Richard Smith, Saturn program manager;Walter J. Kapryan, launch operations director.Funding21.349 billion expended through July 31, 1969.Principal Contractors : North American Rockwell Corp., The Boeing Co.,

McDonnell-Douglas Corp., Grumman Aerospace Corp.,International Business Machine Corp., AC ElectronicsDivisi on of General Motors Corp., Bendix Corp.,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chrysler Corp.

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Skylab

Manned earth-orbital workshop. Equipment includesOrbital Workshop with 10,000 cubic feet of habitablespace, Apollo Telescope Mount, Multiple DockingAdapter, Airlock Module, Apollo Command and ServiceModule. Workshop will be manned by three separatethree-man crews at different ti mes. Crew will carryout about 50 scientific, medical, applications andsolar astronomy experiments from earth orbit.Workshop to be launched by two-stage Saturn: V latein 1972. First three-man crew to be launch edfollowing day on Saturn IB. This crew will remainin workshop up to 28 de- r s. Two other three-man crewswill be launched at approximate 90-day intervals andwill remain in workshop up to 56 days each.Not designated.William C, Schneider, program director; KennethKleinknecht, Skylab manager (MSC); Leland Belew,Skylab manager (MSFC); Thomas W. Morgan, Skylabmanager (KSC).About $1.4 billion expended to date. Runout costsestimated at $2 billion.McDonnell-Douglas Corp., Martin Marietta Corp., TheBoeing Co., Chrysler Corp., :forth American RockwellCorp.

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Programpace StationDescriptioncentralized earth orbital facility forinternational research, applications, and spaceoperations for 10 year period. Equipment includesresuppliable modules for living quarters (12 men)and general purpose laboratories with multipledocking ports for experiment and cargo moduLles.Station expandable to larger space base configurations.Would operate with space shuttle as logistic vehicle.Schedulesurrent program encompasses technical studies of thespace station and related uses and operations;

definition and planning of experiments and integra'.edobservatory-type space facilities; and research anddevelopment on advancements in technology applicableto program. Could reach flight status in the late1970's.

Crewsot yet named.Program Officialsharles W. Mathews, acting director, and Douglas Lord,deputy director, Space Station Task Force, O ffice ofManned Space Flight.Funding30 million requested in FY 1971 budget. Technologystudies, $32.9 million requested in FY 1971 budget.Principal Contractors: McDonnell Douglas Corp. and North American RockwellCorp. conducting Phase B Program Definition studies.

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Programpace ShuttleDescriptioneuseable laurch vehicle and transport to carrypeople and cargo between Earth and low Earthorbit. Concept calls for airplane-like boosterand orbiter stages for piggyback vertical launchand separate horizontal landing. Missions includespace station supply, deployment of unmanned space-craft, satellite repair and retrieval, propellantdelivery, space rescue, short-duration orbitalscience and applications missions.

Scheduleirst horizontal test flights, 1975; orbital testflights, 1976; first operational flights, 1977.Program Officialsharles W. Mathews, acting director, . d LeRoy E.Day, deputy, Space Shuttle Task Force, Office ofManned Space Flight; Roy Godfrey, Marshall SpaceFlight Center; Robert Thompson, Manned SpacecraftCenter.Funding80 million requested in FY 1971 budget for vehicleand engine definition and preliminary design, about$35 million for technology studies. Freliminarydata indicate that a 1977-78 operational date would

require funding of about $6 billion over six years .Principal Contractors : McDonnell Douglas and North American Rockwell,

vehicle; Aero,jet General, Rocketdyne Division of NAR,and Pratt & Whitney, main engines; Lockheed, Chrysler,and Grurmnan-Boeing, feasability studies of alternateconcepts.

Statusurrent studies to be completed in firs t half ofcalendar 1971.end-