Human Space Flight Collection
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The Human Space Flight (HSF) Collection was initiated as a collecting focus for the UHCL Archives following its receiving custody of the Johnson Space Center History Collection in 2001. The goal of the Human Space Flight Collection is to collect original archival materials and personal papers from individuals involved in the space industry, from individuals who worked and researched in the field of human space flight, or those individuals who work for NASA at the Johnson Space Center or for any of its contractors during any given time period. The focus of the collection is to collecting papers from those who spent time working at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Personal papers offer insight into the history and operation of human space flight that otherwise may be lost by relying only on official administrative records. They reveal professional interests and opinions that frequently clarify matters mentioned in official records. Personal viewpoints expressed in personal correspondence and documentation resulting from service may provide a better basis for understanding a given program, decision-making process, or scientific development.
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Item Finding Aid for NASA Apollo Press Releases (HSF-3)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2002)The NASA Apollo Press Releases is composed of original press releases, press kits, flight plans, NASA crew photographs, brochures, scientific reports, press conference records, newspaper clippings and articles, and miscellaneous materials, for every NASA Apollo Program mission from Apollo 7 through Apollo 17. The materials largely are original period copies distributed by NASA and Johnson Space Center. The most significant and largest part of the collection are the original Apollo mission press releases, including hour-by-hour and day-by-day releases providing constant updates on the progress of the missions. This is the most complete collection of press information for the Apollo Program missions outside of the originals housed at the National Archives and Records Administration. This collection also includes brochures and other officially released materials from NASA, such as original public flight plans, transcripts of post-Apollo flight press conferences, and moon rock specimen testing results.Item Finding Aid for the Aleck C. Bond Papers, 1961-1987 (#2006-0007)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2006)Finding aid for the papers of Aleck C. Bond, primarily addressing his work with Eagle Engineering, Inc. as an Industrial Space Facility project manager.Item Finding Aid for the Anna Louden Papers, 1963-1973 (#2016-0014)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2016)Anna Louden worked at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in the Aerodynamics and Entry Technology Section during the years of 1963-1973. Her most notable project was Project Apollo, and her efforts were contributed to Apollo missions 7-11. During this period she received several achievement awards and also co-wrote a NASA internal paper on variational problems. The collection contains one box of materials pertaining to the work of Anna Louden from the period of 1963-1973. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, artwork, awards, and other materials.Item Finding Aid for the Apollo Trajectory Charts Collection (#2018-0010)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2018)This is primarily a collection of Apollo earth, lunar, and translunar/transearth trajectory charts.Item Finding Aid for the Carl Huss Papers (#2015-0010)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2018)The collection includes newspaper articles, journal articles, photographs, memoranda, technical reports, and other materials related to Gemini, Apollo, Viking, Mariner, Shuttle, and Skylab programs, and General Mission Planning, Federation Aeronautique Internationale, American Institute of Aeronautics, and Confederate Air Force.Item Finding Aid for the Carl Scott Papers (#2018-0007)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2018)Carl Douglas Scott received his B.A. degree in physics from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He joined NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston in 1963 after he completed service in the U.S. Navy. During his career at NASA in Houston, Scott worked in the areas of arc jet flow diagnostics; aerothermodynamics; surface catalytic effects on entry heating; and on production, diagnostics, and modeling of single wall carbon nanotubes. He was a lecturer for a number of short courses on hypersonics and flow diagnostics in the U.S. and Europe. He served as co-chair of several workshops hosted by NASA, Rice University, and the Air Force on growth mechanisms of single-wall carbon nanotubes. Scott’s specialty areas of research included: hypersonic aerothermodyanmics; high enthalpy flow diagnostics; chemical reaction modeling of carbon nanotube production, hydrogen microwave plasmas, and arc jet flow; technical report writing; plasma spectroscopy. Carl Scott retired from NASA Johnson Space Center in December 2005. Since retirement, he has continued to support NASA as a consultant with Jacobs Technology, who is a contractor for NASA Johnson Space Center. This collection consists of technical experiment data, notes and calculations, presentations, correspondence, and personal data, created and used by Dr. Carl Scott throughout his time working at NASA Johnson Space Center.Item Finding Aid for the Debbie Carter Papers, 1958-1986 (#2016-0019)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2016)Documents from the US and Canadian space programs showing the working relationship between the two nations and includes information about the Canadian satellite ‘Alouette’ and the Remote Manipulator System subcontracted by a Canadian company for the NASA Space Shuttle program. The papers also include text and notes from interviews of NASA executives Robert Day, Al Louviere, Clay McCullough, and Kemble Johnson.Item Finding Aid for the Donald R. Puddy Papers, 1966-2003 (#2016-0011)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2016)Donald R. Puddy was born in Oklahoma on May 31, 1937. Puddy’s career with NASA began at the Manned Spacecraft Center, now known as Johnson Space Center (JSC) in 1964 during the Apollo years. As an engineer on the Apollo 13 flight in 1970, he proposed the solution of using the lunar module, Aquarius, as a lifeboat that saved the lives of the three Apollo 13 astronauts. As a result, Donald Puddy’s career with NASA began to blossom as he was promoted in 1972 to Flight Director, where he commanded NASA’s final mission to the moon, Apollo 17 and the missions to the United States’ first space station, Skylab. Most importantly, Donald Puddy presided over the NASA program during the crucial Cold War period known as détente. The relaxation of tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was personified by joint mission programs such as the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975 and Shuttle Transportation System (STS) missions to the Russian Space Station Mir in the late 1980s as the first phase of establishing an International Space Station (ISS), which was completed in the late 1990s. Throughout his lengthy career with NASA, Donald Puddy won numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts on the Apollo 13 rescue, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal and was inducted into the Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame in 2002. Donald Puddy passed away on November 22, 2004 in Houston, Texas. This collection contains the work papers of Donald R. Puddy, Johnson Space Center (JSC) engineer, flight director and manager from 1964 until 2004. Content includes documentation from Apollo, Skylab, Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), Approach and Landing Test (ALT), Shuttle Transportation System (STS), the Shuttle-Mir Program and JSC operating papers.Item Finding Aid for the Harold J. McMann Logbook Collection, 1961-2002 (#2013-0005)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2013)Harold Joseph McMann Jr. (who went by "Joe") received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1959. He worked as a staff applications engineer at Liquid Carbonic Corporation, a division of General Dynamics, until he joined NASA as an aerospace technologist for the Materials, Life Systems Division, Space Task Group, in 1961. McCann held increasingly responsible positions until he became the manager of the EVA Management Office, EVA and Crew Equipment Office in 1996 at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. he was a member of the EVA Hardware Development Group, EVA Project Office, before leaving NASA in 1996. On leaving NASA, McMann took a position as an engineer at the Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, a position that he held in 2002. McMann received 15 awards for his work, including the MSC Outstanding Performance Award, Project Mercury; the Victor A. Prather Award; and the JSC Group Achievement Award, Manned Maneuvering Unit Thermal/Vacuum Test Support Team, JSC NITROX Development and Support Team for STS-61. This collection contains McMann’s personal copies of logbooks covering four decades that report the activities of the Crew Systems Division at the Lane-Wells Building (MSC Site 4) at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.Item Finding Aid for the Henry "Hank" Eggers Collection, 1963-1977 (#2013-0015)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2013)Memorabilia from the personal collection of Henry Eggers.Item Finding Aid for the Herbert C. Kavanaugh Papers, 1942-1992 (#2016-0016)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2016)This collection contains material pertaining to the work of Herbert C. Kavanaugh including personal letters, memoranda, technical reports, handbooks, journals, periodicals, numeric data, and photographs.Item Finding Aid for the Hyman A. Steinberg Collection (#2018-0011)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2019)Hyman Abraham Steinberg (who went by “Hy”) was born in New York City to a Jewish family on December 15, 1925. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1944-1946 as a Radioman 2nd Class at the U.S. Naval Mine Depot in Yorktown, Virginia. He received a Bachelor of Art and Bachelor of Architectural Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1950 and 1951, respectively. In 1951, Steinberg worked as the junior architect for the New York City Public Works Department. Then, Steinberg worked at New York University’s Research Division as an engineering scientist from 1951-1955, where he co-developed the first engineered solar oven. He next worked as an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, from 1955-1958. Steinberg worked from 1967 to 1971 as an engineering specialist for Catalytic-Dow, Saturn 5 systems at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He also worked on the Apollo 8 program. From 1955 to 1980, Steinberg received 14 U.S Patents for Solar-Thermal energy conversion. In his career, he received 20 patents for his own inventions. Some of his best-known inventions today are the solar energy grill, inner channel hearing aid, and rotary electric shaver. Steinberg then worked as a real estate investor, architectural consultant, artist, and inventor until his death on February 12, 2016. This collection contains writings, invention materials, photographs, and publications related to the life and career of Hyman A. Steinberg’s career at NASA that impacted human space flight. Most of the materials date from 1967 to 1973, though there are materials from Steinberg’s later independent consultancy with NASA while not a full-time employee.Item Finding Aid for the James E. McCoy Papers, 1965-2004 (#2015-0003)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2015)Dr. James Ernest McCoy (who went by "Jim") was born on May 4, 1941, to Amy and Ernest McCoy. McCoy went on to attend college at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He would go to work at the new NASA Manned Spacecraft Center campus in Houston, Texas, in 1963. McCoy worked on his PhD in Astrophysics at Rice University while also working at NASA. In his 43 years working at NASA, he worked on virtually every project: Gemini; Apollo, with experiments on Apollo 15 and Apollo 17; the Shuttle program; Space Station; and Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), the ion propulsion rocket. Dr. McCoy’s work contributes to the understanding of the Earth’s ionosphere and the Moon’s exosphere. He was an expert in moon dust. In 1971 Dr. McCoy was part of a team investigating the Earth’s electrometric field, the Moon’s movement through plasma, and the Moon’s interaction with plasma. Dr. McCoy in part sought to explain streamers, thin streaks of light rising from the lunar surface observed by Apollo astronauts during sunrise. Dr. McCoy also contributed to the field of electrodynamic tethers, innovative ways to provide power and thrust for spacecraft that were both cheaper and more efficient than current contemporary systems. The tethers are thin insulted wires, varying in length, with a plasma motor generator at the ends. McCoy also worked extensively with the European Space Agency on the Tethered Satellite program and flew his Plasma Motor Generator on the Delta 221 launch. In total, McCoy spent 43 years working for NASA. James McCoy died on November 28, 2014. The documents were produced during Dr. James McCoy’s endeavors as a physicists at NASA during his 43-year career at NASA and Johnson Space Center between 1965 and 2004. The bulk of the materials date from 1980 to 1993. The collection contains variety of media including: notes, slides, reports, pictures, negatives, blueprints, notebooks, and journal articles.Item Finding Aid for the John Howard Kimzey Papers (#2018-0009)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2018)The collection includes Kimzey's participation in field testing at White Sands (WSTF) and in other testing facilities focused on material safety and flammability and extinguishment in a Zero Gravity (Zero-G) environment. His work spans the eras of Gemini, Mercury, Skylab, and Apollo. After leaving his job at the Johnson Space Center he worked for a few outside contractors continuing to do invaluable research for the space program.Item Finding Aid for the John R. Garman Papers, 1967-1998 (#2013-0006)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2013)Documents on Apollo 11-16 missions and navigation systems, ALSA/SOMA programs and reports, programmed guidance equations and analysis, HAL compiler and language, STS avionics, the space station, Information Resource Management, photographs, and presentation slides.Item Finding Aid for the JSC Artifact Collection, 1958-1994 (#2016-0005)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2016)Collection includes maps, checklists, cards, logos, and mechanical parts.Item Finding Aid for the Lawrence D. Guy Papers, 1950-1978 (#2017-0005)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2017)This collection represents material Mr. Lawrence D. Guy gathered from his personal work files while employed by the US Government at the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) and Johnson Space Center. The focus of this collection includes vast mathematical analysis in support of Aerodynamic and Aerothermal design of general aviation aircraft’s as well as space vehicles such as the Shuttle and planetary probes.Item Finding Aid for the Maxime Faget Papers, 1930s-2004 (#2014-0001)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2014)The papers of Maxime Faget, who was on the design team for the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle vehicles and held several key patents for both Mercury and Shuttle. He later went on to found the company Space Industries after his retirement from government service.Item Finding Aid for the Norman Chaffee Papers (#2018-0003)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2018)The collection contains memos written by Chaffee, as well as papers he wrote and presented (with notes), patent information, and personnel-related records.Item Finding Aid for the Richard Boudreau Apollo Mission Techniques Documents, 1966-1967 (#2015-0009)(University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives, 2015)This is collection consists of TRW Rendezvous Study Briefing Charts, Apollo Mission Techniques Working Paper, and Apollo Mission Techniques (Chapter IV, Lunar Descent).