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Post-Challenger Assessment of Space Shuttle Flight Rates and Utilization (1986)

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Appendix A ! Background 1. April 21, 1986, Letter from Congressman Edward P. Boland 2. List of Briefers and Parti c~pants 3. Committee on NASA Scientific and Technological Program Reviews Membership 19

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21 Honorable US t ] ~ ~e E. Grshes April 2l, ~916 Pate Two operation of ~ space station. The assessment should also be based on the assumption that the shuttle w111 fly at least one-third of the Serene number of conmercte1 satellites launched over the manifest period. . . . 4. An estimate, based on evallable.dats, of the verlous cost trade-offs of the above assumptions. I would appreciate your cooperation In forwarding this request and in assisting with the study. ~ report covering these ~ ssues should be aV9, fable to the House Appropriations Committee by October 1 S. 1986. Sd nce ray, it_ he ~ roan House Subcoem i t tee on HUD - Independent Agenc ~ es 6 - -

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LIST OF bRIEFERS AND PARTICIPANTS NASA REPRESENTATIVES NASA Headquarters Jerry J. Fitts, Deputy Director, Customer Services, Office of Space Flight William Franklin, Technical Advisor, Launch and Landing Operations John P. Hodge, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Station Ron Kinsley, Program Manager, Shuttle Payloads Chester M. Lee, Director, Customer Services Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center A. A. Bishop, Deputy Manager, Mission Integration Office Gregory Harbauch, Manager, Schedules and Flow Management Office Elena M. Huffstetler, Manager, Flight Production Office Leonard S. Nicholson, Manager, STS Integration and Operations Officer John F. Kennedy Space Center R. E. Heuser, Chief, Project Control and Contract Management Office Payload Projects Management and Operations Directorate Dick Lyon, Deputy Director, Payload Operations Russell Romanella, Technical Assistant, Payload Operations Robert B. Sieck, Director of Shuttle Operations Dick Thornburg, Manager, Shuttle Planning and Manifesting George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Jack M. Boze, Chief, Program Control Office, Office of Shuttle Projects Jim Kennedy, Chief, SSME Project Control 23

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24 U.S. AIR FORCE Charles Cook, Deputy Assistant Secretary, USAF Space Transportation System OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET Jeff Struthers, Chief, Science and Space Programs Branch - S1RATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE OFFICE George Hess, Director, Survivability, Lethality, and Key Technologies Gordon Smith, Deputy Director INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES Arianespace Douglas Heydon, Executive Vice President and General Manager, U.S. Arianespace Diane Josephson, Director of Marketing, U.S. Arianespace Ford Aerospace Robert E. Berry, Vice President . General Dynamics ., Space Systems Operations William F. Rector, Vice President, Program Development Rudi Romero, Washington Office Hughes Communications Company John H. McElroy, Vice President for Technology Lockheed Space Operations Company and Subcontractors Carver G. Kennedy, Vice President, Space Programs, Morton Thiokol David L. Owen, Executive Vice President Herman E. Shipley, Director, Service Programs, Missiles, Space and Electronics Systems Group, Lockheed/Washington Office John Walker, Lockheed Wiley E. Williams, Vice President, Grumman Technical Services . . . Division

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25 Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace Richard Blakley, Manager, Program Development, Space Launch Systems Martin Marietta. F.xterna1 Tank nivi.~;f~n Richard Davis, President, External Tank Project Thomas C. Wirth, Vice President, External Tank Project RGA Astro Electronics Jack Frohbieter, Division Vice President and General Manager Rockwell/Rocketdyne Robert Glaysher, California Solid Vice President for Shuttle Operations, Downey, Leroy D. Solid, Director of Launch Operations, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Don L. Steelman, Director, Customer Representation, Washington, D.C.

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/ COMMITTEE ON NASA SCIENTIFIC AND TE(ChNOLOGICAL . PROGRAM REVIEWS NORMAN lIACKER~LAN, Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board,.The Robert A. Welch Foundation, Houston, Texas, Chairman GEORGE W. CLARK, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachussetts EDGAR M. COKTRIGHT, Consultant, Yorktown, Virginia EUGENE E. COVERT, Professor of Aeronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts ALEXANDER H. FLAX, Home Secretary, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C. THOMAS P. STAFFORD, Partner, Stafford, Burke and Hecker Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , Inc., JOHN W. TOWNSEND, JR., Senior Vice President, Planning and Operations, Fairchild Industries, Inc., Chantilly, Virginia JAMES A. VAN ALLEN, Retired head, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa ALDEN L. BEMENT, Vice President of Technical Resources, TRW, Inc., - Cleveland, Ohio, Ex Officio Member ROBERT H. KORKEGI, Director JoANN C. CLAYTON, Senior Staff Officer ANNA L. FARRAR, Administrative Assistant 27

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