Interview Summary Retired NASA administrator George W. S. Abbey is interviewed about his aerospace career and his contributions to human spaceflight. He discusses his service with the U.S. Air Force during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing in particular on his involvement in the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar Program. He then discusses his experiences at NASA and describes his career progression from systems engineer to director of the Johnson Space Center (Texas). Notable topics discussed include the Apollo Program, the...

Contents of the Collection The Nancy S. Hammond Space Shuttle Programs Collection documents the career of Nancy Hammond while employed with the Boeing Aerospace Company on NASA contracts. Hammond was part of a group responsible for tracking the progress of scheduled tasks to complete the Inertial Upper Stage rocket to be attached to the TDRS-A (Tracking, Data, and Relay) Satellite to be launched on the Space Shuttle STS-6. This collection, which dates from 1969-1993, consists of printed ephemera, manual drafts, reports,...

Content Description The Steve Schadelbauer NASA Collection is a small collection consisting of materials collected by Schadelbauer during his career as a NASA engineer at Johnson Space Center. The collection includes: a memorial program for the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission members, February 4, 2003; a memorial program for the Space Shuttle Challenger 51-L mission members, January 31, 1986; an Integrated Radar and Communications Subsystem (KuBand) brochure, 1977; an Avionic Systems Division logo flyer...