Record Unit 306

Folders 1-7 Aeronautics, 1971-1977. These folders primarily contain copies of outgoing correspondence with an occasional incoming letter. Subjects mainly include collections and exhibits as well as the operation of the Aeronautics Department

Folder 8 Aircraft: NC-4, 1972-1974. Concerns the status of this airplane and Collins' rebuttal to an article in The Armed Forces Journal, which accused NASM of letting the NC-4 decay

Folder 9 Aircraft: Beverly E. Howard Jungmeister, 1972-1975. Contains agreement with the Beverly E. Howard Memorial Foundation

Folder 10 Aircraft: C-47, 1971-1972, Concerns a proposal to lease an aircraft for Smithsonian use

Folder 11 Aircraft: Kirk PT-1 and SE-5, 1972. Includes copies of pertinent file letters from 1949 to 1968 concerning the acquisition of Preston Kirk's airplane by NASM

Folder 1 Apollo 14 "Kitty Hawk" command module, 1971-1976. Includes correspondence with Congressmen and National Geographic President Melvin M. Payne concerning possible loan of the module to other museums

Folder 2 Apollo/Soyuz tree planting ceremony, October 22, 1975. Includes a photograph of NASM showing trees planted by American and Soviet astronauts

Folder 3 Art, 1971-1974. Concerns paintings exhibited in the Arts and Industries Building and includes list of "Artists and Astronautics," a collection of space art works, 1973, as well as initial correspondence with the muralists and sculptors whose work was to be exhibited in the new building

Folder 4 Art, 1975. Concerns murals and sculpture for the new museum, as well as donations of art work.

Folder 5 Art, 1976. Concerns posters and art for the new building. Includes correspondence of Neil Armstrong and material regarding a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) exhibit, Space Art from the USSR. ["Space Art from the USSR" poster removed to oversize.]

Oversize "Space Art from the USSR" poster, 1976.

Folder 6 Art, 1977. Concerns donations of art works and the theft of one of the traveling Soviet paintings

Folder 7 Associates, 1972-1977

Folder 8 Associates, 1976-1977. Includes material on "Weekend at the National Air and Space Museum," November 1976

Folder 9 Associates: Women's Committee, 1972, 1976

Folders 10-12 Astronautics, 1971-1974. Includes correspondence and memoranda on the operation of the Astronautics Department and early plans for exhibits in the new NASM building. Also includes list of names for a "Biographical file of Astronautical Personalities," 1973, and contains correspondence from Frederick C. Durant, III, assistant director of astronautics

Folders 1-3 Astronautics, 1975-1977

Folder 4 Astronautics: spacecraft, 1971. Concerns locations of all American command modules

Folder 5 Astronautics: moon rocks, 1972

Folder 6 Astronautics: Cosmos 316, 1972. Concerns space debris from a Soviet satellite

Folder 7 Auctions, 1975-1978

Folder 8 Awards, 1977-1978. Includes the 1977 Architectural Award of Excellence given to NASM by the American Institute of Steel Construction, the Proxmire "Award of Merit," the National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association "Citation of Merit," and the "Certificate of Design Excellence," from Print magazine.

Folder 9 B, 1971-1978

Folder 10 Beckman Report, 1971

Folder 11 Silvio Bedini, 1972, 1975

Folder 12 Belmont, 1977

Folder 13 Belmont Priorities Conference, 1973

Folder 1 Belmont Priorities Conference, 1974

Folder 2 Blandy Boocock Memorial Foundation, 1972

Folder 3 Frank G. Brewer Trophy, 1973-1978. Includes Michael Collins' nominations for the trophy of the National Aeronautical Association

Folder 4 Budget, 1973-1976. Includes memoranda and budget figures for NASM and partly concerns the change of program emphasis which followed the successful opening

Folder 5 Budget, Zero Base

Folder 6 Building Number Three, Alexandria, 1971-1974

Folder 7 Buildings Management Department, 1973-1974. Concerns study and reorganization of Buildings Management Department (BMD)

Folder 8 William A. M. Burden, 1973-1977. Concerns the Burden Collection of aviation literature and includes list of books he donated

Folder 1 Bureau heads meeting, 1976-1978

Folder 2 By-word, 1976

Folder 3 C, 1971-1977

Folder 4 Cachet covers, 1972-1977. Concerns NASM's Milestones of Flight covers

Folder 5 Cafeteria, 1971-1978. Includes correspondence with consultants Flambert and Flambert and plans for ARA Services to operate a cafeteria

Folder 6 Cafeteria: drawings and plans

Folder 7 Cafeteria: Kiosk, 1978

Folder 8 Cape Canaveral exhibit, 1975

Folder 9 Carranza, Captain Emilio (Mexican aviator): suggestions for an exhibit

Folder 10 Central Intelligence Agency, 1973, 1976.

Folder 11 Mrs. Otis Chandler: Artificial aurora project, 1972

Folder 1 Collection management, 1974, 1976-1978. Concerns inventory project

Folder 2 Colloquium, NASM staff, 1977

Folder 3 Commission of Fine Arts, 1971-1975. Includes Press Kit put together for meeting with Fine Arts Commission, November 17, 1971, as well as transcript of 1975 meeting concerning the Lippold Sculpture

Folder 4 Committee for the Future, 1971, 1973

Folder 5 Complaints, 1976-1978

Folder 6 COMSAT, 1973-1974

Folder 7 Concern, Inc., 1974-1976

Folder 8 Concorde, 1976

Folder 9 Conference of Administrative Officers, 1974

Folder 10 Congress, 1971-1977

Folder 11 Contest: possibility of a NASM trophy, 1972

Folder 12 Contracts: summary sheets, 1974

Folder 13 Cookbook, 1977

Folder 1 Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1975-1976

Folder 2 Copernicus 500th anniversary, 1971-1973. Includes draft of Collins introductory speech for Athelstan Spilhaus, April 26, 1973. Also includes booklet, program, and photographs

Folder 3 Council of Conservators, 1973-1974

Folder 4 Cruise Missile Tomahawk, 1977. Includes photographs

Folder 5 Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, 1977

Folder 6 D, 1971-1978

Folder 7 Daiger, John G. and Margaret M., 1975-1976

Folder 8 Docents, 1971-1972, 1977

Folder 9 Donations to NASM, 1971-1973

Folder 10 Dulles Airport, 1971-1974. Concerns the efforts of Neilson J. November to establish a branch of NASM at Dulles

Folder 11 E, 1971, 1973, 1976-1977

Folder 12 Early Birds, 1972-1973. Includes history of Early Birds and membership lists

Folder 13 Educational Review Board, 1971

Folder 14 Einstein Centennial of 1979, 1977-1978. Concerns planning for the Centennial

Folder 15 Dr. Eugene N. Emme, 1973-1978. Includes correspondence of the NASA historian with Michael Collins

Folder 16 Rowland and Mary Emmett, 1973-1978. Includes articles and photographs of the inventor of zany contraptions, such as the "Lunacycle," which was exhibited at NASM

Folder 17 Employees (NASM), outside activities, 1973

Folder 1 Energy conservation, 1973-1975

Folder 2 Environmental statement on the new building, 1970-1973

Folder 3 Equal opportunity plan of action, 1974

Folder 4 Equipment, miscellaneous, 1974-1977. Primarily concerns seating lounges for the public and the wording of plaque for outside of building

Folder 5 Exhibits: Apollo to the Moon, 1975

Folder 6 Exhibits: Balloon Hall Exhibit, 1971-1974. Includes concept script

Folder 7 Exhibits: Drug Exhibit, 1972

Folder 8 Exhibits: Earthbound benefits from Flight

Folder 9 Exhibits: East Terrace of NASM and Last Site on the Mall, 1975-1977. See also Concern, Inc.

Folder 10 Exhibits: Eric Sloane mural, 1971-1976. Includes articles on Sloane and his work

Folder 11 Exhibits: Eric Sloane mural quotation, 1977-1978

Folders 12-13 Exhibits: general, 1971-1975. See also Art

Folder 14 Exhibits: Great Hall Exhibit, 1971

Folder 15 Exhibits: Hall of Transportation, 1974

Folder 16 Exhibits: Keith Ferris mural of a B-17 bomber, 1975

Folder 17 Exhibits: Life in the Universe, 1973-1977

Folder 18 Exhibits: Milestones of Flight, 1974

Folder 1 Exhibits: NASM Exhibits Policy, 1971

Folder 2 Exhibits: Office of Exhibits, 1971-1973. Concerns reorganization of the exhibits office

Folder 3 Exhibits: Plans and Progress Report to S. Dillon Ripley, May 1976. Outlines status of each exhibit hall for the new NASM museum

Folder 4 Exhibits: Pre-exhibit monologue, c. 1976 (Accession 09-165)

Folder 5 Exhibits: Program Status charts, 1974-1976

Folder 6 Exhibits: Quarterly Summation, 1977

Folder 7 Exhibits: Robert McCall mural, 1972-1975. Includes correspondence and sketches and examples of his work on the space mural

Folder 8 Exhibits: Rocketry and Space Flight, 1974

Folder 9 Exhibits: Sea Air Operations Hall, 1974

Folder 10 Exhibits: Space, 1971-1974. Concerns A&I Building exhibits

Folder 11 Exhibits: Spacearium, 1971-1976. Concerns fund raising for the Spacearium

Folder 12 Exhibits: Special Exhibits Gallery, 1976

Folder 13 Exhibits: Status Reports, FY1975-1976

Folder 14 Exhibits: Study Group Report, 1972. See also Office of Exhibits

Folder 15 Exhibits: World War I Exhibit, 1971-1973. Includes concept script for 1972 exhibit

Folder 16 Exhibits: World War II Gallery, 1975

Folder 17 Exhibits: World War II, 1977. Concerns claim against a contractor

Folder 18 Experimental Aircraft Association, 1972-1973. Partly concerns Lindbergh's Monocoupe

Folder 19 Experimentarium, 1971-1975

Folder 1 F, 1971-1977

Folder 2 Feasibility Study for the new NASM building, March 3, 1971

Folder 3 Federal Aviation Administration, 1973. Includes copy of SI/FAA agreement by which NASM received artifacts

Folder 4 Film Review Group, 1971

Folder 5 Fountain of Flow, 1973-1974, 1977. Memos concern a proposed display of art and technology

Folder 6 Fourth Street, 1975-1976. Includes a discussion draft of the 1969 report "Fourth Street in the Capital City"

Folder 7 Franklin Mint, 1970-1972

Folder 8 Freedom Train, 1974-1975

Folder 9 Fund Raising, 1971-1977

Folder 10 Fund Raising: Letter of January 5, 1972, to the aerospace industry and responses, 1972-1973

Folder 11 Fund Raising: sales, 1973-1976. Includes memos and correspondence on the sale of posters, cachet covers, ties, and coloring books and a controversy with the Museum Shops

Folder 12 G, 1971-1978

Folder 13 Paul Garber, 1973, 1978

Folder 14 General Aviation Manufacturer's Association, 1974

Folder 15 General Services Administration, 1971-1976. Correspondence concerns construction of the new NASM building

Folder 1 Gilbane Building Company, 1972, 1975-1976. Concerns construction

Folder 2 Goddard Memorial Trophy, 1971-1977

Folder 3 Barry Goldwater, 1970-1977. Includes copy of his speech before the House subcommittee regarding funding of NASM

Folder 4 Barry Goldwater medal proposal, 1975

Folder 5 John Grierson, 1977-1978

Folder 6 Groundbreaking ceremony (November 20, 1972), 1972-1973

Folder 7 Groundbreaking ceremony photographs

Folder 8 Guards, 1972-1978

Folder 9 Guggenheim correspondence, 1962-1969. Contains copies of correspondence concerning the grants of the Guggenheim Foundation to the National Air Museum. Occasional original materials appear to be from the files of the then Director, Philip S. Hopkins. Included is one original Carmichael memo and comments on other documents

Folder 10 Guggenheim correspondence, 1971-1976

Folder 11 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976-1977

Folder 12 Guggenheim Fund, 1969-1971

Folder 13 Guggenheim NASM Project: reports on California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) and Stanford aeronautical engineering schools, 1967

Folder 1 Gymnasium, 1977

Folder 2 H, 1971-1978

Folder 3 Hayden Planetarium, 1975

Folder 4 Hillwood, 1975

Folder 5 History: correspondence concerning appropriation hearings, 1972

Folder 6 History: legislation, 1946-1973. Contains copies of House and Senate reports with legislation for the new NASM

Folder 7 History: organization charts, 1969

Folder 8 History: "Proposed objectives and plans for the National Air and Space Museum," 1965

Folder 9 History: "The National Air and Space Museum," 1964. Prospectus with sketches

Folder 10 History: "Report on the Management Survey of the National Air Museum," 1959

Folder 11 Hodgkins Medal, 1972-1976. Concerns nominees

Folder 12 Office of Horticulture, 1976-1977

Folder 13 Howard Hughes aircraft, 1974. Includes data sheets on the H-1, H-4, and PB-24

Folder 14 Howard Hughes Spruce Goose, HK-1, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics/NASM panel, 1974-1975. This folder and the two that follow concern a controversy over Hughes' wooden airplane and its disposition

Folder 15 Howard Hughes Spruce Goose HK-1 correspondence, 1974-1978

Folder 1 Howard Hughes Spruce Goose HK-1 press materials, 1975-1976. Includes clippings

Folder 2 Howard Hughes and Megalifter proposal, 1975

Folder 3 Hughes Aircraft Company energy saving plan, 1976. Includes report, "Program for an Energy Efficient HVAC Control System"

Folder 4 I, 1975-1976

Folder 5 Intelsat Corporation agreement with NASM, 1975. Includes photographs

Folder 6 International Aerospace Hall of Fame, 1972-1975, 1977

Folder 7 International Silver Company, 1976

Folder 8 J, 1971-1978

Folder 9 S. Paul Johnston, 1971 , 1973, 1976. Includes copy of his address given before the Washington Aero Club, 1969, regarding the status of NASM

Folder 10 K, 1971-1978

Folder 11 Otto Kalir, 1971, 1973-1975, 1977-1978. Concerns possible donation of his aeronautical medal collection to NASM

Folder 12 L, 1971-1978

Folder 13 Langley Medal, 1971. Concerns award to Lt. General Samuel Cochran Phillips

Folder 14 Langley Medal, 1975-1976. Concerns the joint award to Grover Loening and James Edwin Webb. Includes photographs

Folder 15 Library, 1971-1975. Includes a report by Catherine D. Scott titled "Recommendation for the Development of the Historical Research Center of the National Air and Space Museum"

Folder 16 Library, 1976-1978

Folder 17 Library Air Force Oral History Program, 1973-1974

Folder 1 Library of Congress, 1971, 1974, 1977. Correspondence concerns collecting policies

Folder 2 Lindbergh 50th anniversary (May 21, 1977), 1976-1977. Includes photograph

Folder 3 Link Foundation, 1971-1973. Correspondence partly concerns the Experimentarium and also includes poetry written by astronaut Alfred Merrill Worden

Folder 4 Grover Loening, 1972-1976. Correspondence concerns his book, his posthumous award of the Langley Medal, and his memorial fund

Folder 5 Pare Lorentz, 1972, 1975-1976. Concerns his "Over the Hump" film made during World War II in China

Folder 6 M, 1971-1978

Folder 7 Walter Male, 1972-1973. Material partly concerns problems at Silver Hill

Folder 8 Management Analysis Office, 1974-1976

Folder 9 Dr. Donald H. Menzel, 1970-1971, 1973, 1976. Correspondence partly concerns lunar nomenclature

Folder 10 Metro Goldwyn Mayer-NASM agreement, 1975

Folder 11 Michaelis Collection, 1972-1975. Concerns acquisition of a collection of rare books and scientific instruments

Folder 12 Missiles, 1973-1974

Folder 13 Moving artifacts into the new building, 1975

Folder 14 Museums: Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, 1973. Includes photographs

Folder 15 Museums: California, 1975

Folder 16 Museums: Deutsches Museum, Munich, 1971-1976. Includes correspondence with Theo Stillger, director-general, as well as photographs of Collins' 1971 visit

Folder 17 Museums: McGraw-Hill Planetarium, 1971

Folder 18 Museums: National Science Museum, Tokyo, 1977

Folder 1 Museums: North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, 1971-1977. Includes correspondence of Director Richard Wescott and clippings of Collins' 1972 visit

Folder 2 Museums: Ontario Science Center

Folder 3 Museums: Rochester Museum and Science Center, 1971

Folder 4 Museums: San Diego Hall of Science, 1972

Folder 5 Museums: Swiss Museum of Transport and Communication, 1971-1975

Folder 6 Museums: miscellaneous correspondence and brochures

Folder 7 Museum shop, 1971-1974

Folder 8 N, 1971-1978

Folder 9 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1971. Contains copy of NASA-NASM agreement on space exhibits for the new building

Folder 10 NASA, 1972-1974. Partly concerns a joint seminar "Outlook for Space," 1974, and other joint projects

Folder 11 NASA, 1975-1978. Includes correspondence with NASA administrators, Alexander P. Nagy, James C. Fletcher, and Noel Hinners. Partly concerns the special showing on June 9, 1976, of the new museum to NASA employees

Folder 12 National Aeronautics and Space Council, 1971

Folder 13 National Board of Smithsonian Associates, 1971

Folder 14 National Geographic Society, 1971, 1975-1976. Includes correspondence with Melville Bell Grosvenor and Melvin M. Payne

Folder 15 National Museum Act, 1973, 1977

Folder 16 National Portrait Gallery, 1971

Folder 1 Order of Daedalians, 1976. Concerns the sculpture Daedalus by Richard Harrell Rogers

Folder 2 P, 1971-1973, 1976

Folder 3 Parking and traffic, 1965, 1972. Concerns the effects of the new building on Mall area parking and traffic and includes 1965 "Evaluation of Proposed Garage, National Air and Space Museum" and 1972 "An Impact Study of the National Air and Space Museum on Traffic Congestion," both by Barton-Aschman Associates

Folder 4 Parking and Traffic, 1973-1974. Includes report titled "Paid Parking: Smithsonian Parking Facilities including the new Air and Space Museum"

Folder 5 Parking and Traffic, 1975-1977. Includes statistics on the parking concession and copy of the contract with Colonial Parking

Folder 6 Paul Perrot, 1974

Folder 7 Press Kit on the new building, 1972. Includes statistics on the building and biographies of Collins and architect Gyo Obata

Folder 8 Property and security, 1971, 1974-1976

Folder 9 Public Affairs office, 1971-1974, 1976

Folder 10 Publications: general, 1972-1974. See also Cookbook

Folder 11 Publications: Kodansha Publishers, 1978. Includes color photographs of NASM

Folder 12 Publications: NASA-Abrams volume, 1977-1978. Concerns negotiations regarding the publisher

Folder 1 Publications: Supersonic Flight, 1972

Folder 2 R, 1972-1973

Folder 3 Research, 1977

Folder 4 S, 1971-1975

Folder 5 Science and Technology, Department of, 1973

Folder 6 Silver Hill, 1971-1974

Folder 7 Smithsonian Council, 1971-1972

Folder 8 Smithsonian Year, 1972-1974

Folder 9 Space, 1971-1975, 1976

Folder 10 Spaceward Corporation, 1971

Folder 11 Special Events, 1972-1973

Folder 12 Storage, 1975-1977

Folder 13 T, 1971-1973

Folder 14 Transpo '72, 1972

Folder 15 Travel, 1975-1978

Folder 16 Union, 1976-1977

Folder 17 United States Geological Survey. Consists primarily of printed materials on the ERTS and EROS satellites and includes Apollo 17 pre-mission geologic map

Folder 18 Vehicle and Power Plant Restoration Planning meeting (March 21, 1973), 1972-1973. Concerns meeting of outside experts held by NASM to obtain advice on the restoration projects planned for the new museum

Folder 19 Videorecord Corporation, 1971-1972

Folder 20 Visitors, 1974-1976

Folder 21 W, 1971-1974

Folder 22 Wright Brothers and Wright Aeroplane, 1971-1976. Includes correspondence with their niece, Ivonette Wright, and copy of 1948 agreement on the plane

Folder 23 XYZ, 1971-1973

Folders 1-6 Reading files, 1971-1976. Incomplete. 1973 includes log of Collins' activities and telephone calls between January and March

Folder 7 Boeing Company donation of painting to NASM, November 28, 1977

Folder 8 James Bradley retirement reception, June 30, 1972

Folder 9 Arthur C. Clarke, March 15, 1973

Folder 10 William Custer presentation of model, June 24, 1975

Folder 11 General DeSilva of Portugal, visit to NASM, November 11, 1976

Folder 12 Estes Industries presentation, February 20, 1976

Folder 13 Carl Grimsley retirement, December 14, 1973

Folder 14 Congressman and Mrs. Ken Hechler, June 30, 1976

Folder 15 Fran Johnson and presentation of Joan Merriam Smith bust to NASM, March 30, 1972

Folder 16 Con. H. Keith and presentation of Hanson 150th anniversary coin, June 12, 1972

Folder 17 Mathieu Mategot Tapestry presentation, November 23, 1971

Folder 18 Arthur McFadden (?), 3,000,000th visitor to NASM, September 26, 1976

Folder 19 Senator Frank Moss, Dr. Caryl Haskins, and Congressman Cederberg visit NASM, January 22, 1976

Folder 20 Navy Secretary receives propeller from NASM, February 25, 1975

Folder 21 Production Unit receives appreciation award, January 31, 1974

Polder 22 Walter Roderick receives Sustained Performance Award, January 31, 1974

Folder 23 Rufus Shivers, March 14, 1973

Folder 24 Cristobal Toral painting presentation, June 21, 1971

Folder 25 Major General Leigh Wade at Silver Hill, April 18, 1973

Folder 26 Events of June 14, 1972

Folder 27 Miscellaneous and unidentified photographs

Folder 28 Service awards, 1975-1976

Folder 1 Plaque, "Great Success Exploring on the Moon," presented by UN Korean War Allies Association, Republic of Korea

Folder 2 Citation accompanying General Thomas D. White USAF Space Trophy, April 29, 1970

Folder 3 Plaque, "The Eagle Has Landed"

Folder 4 Plaque, reproduction of plaque left on moon by Apollo 11 crew on July 20, 1969. Issued by the Danbury Mint

Folder 1 Scroll, Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, presented to Michael Collins by the president of France, October 7, 1969 [formerly folder 5 in box 19]