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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Record Unit 347

National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space Science and Exploration

Subject Files, circa 1972-1988
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space Science and Exploration
Title: Subject Files
Dates: circa 1972-1988
Quantity: 7.5 cu. ft. (7 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
Collection: Record Unit 347
Language of Materials: English
Summary:

These records consist of administrative files of the Department of Astronautics and the Department of Space Science and Exploration. They contain exhibit records, including scripts, status reports, and planning documents, as well as records concerning interns, publications, lectures, collections management, position descriptions, and professional meetings.

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These records consist of administrative files of the Department of Astronautics and the Department of Space Science and Exploration. They contain exhibit records, including scripts, status reports, and planning documents, as well as records concerning interns, publications, lectures, collections management, position descriptions, and professional meetings.

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Subject

Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 347, National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space Science and Exploration, Subject Files

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Container List

Box 1

National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Internships, 1972

Box 1 of 8

Reading Files, October 1979-March 1980

Box 1 of 8

Richard Mathias, Temporary Volunteer

Box 1 of 8

Volunteer, Stanley Sawmelle

Box 1 of 8

Astro, Reference Files, original copies

Box 1 of 8

Astro, Mailing Lists

Box 1 of 8

Exhibits, Rocketry and Space Flight (2 folders)

Box 1 of 8

Exhibits, Satellites Gallery

Box 1 of 8

Exhibits, Milestones of Flight

Box 1 of 8

Exhibits, East Gallery

Box 1 of 8

Exhibits, Re-Entered Objects (2 folders)

Box 1 of 8

Space Shuttle Update Script

Box 1 of 8

Skylab (one memo)

Box 1 of 8

Exhibit Script, Space Hall - Mariner 10

Box 1 of 8

Satellites, Meteorological Satellites

Box 1 of 8

Exhibit Script, Milestones of Flight

Box 1 of 8

Powers of Ten

Box 1 of 8

Script Reviews

Box 1 of 8

Exhibits - Monthly Report

Box 1 of 8

Hermes A-1

Box 1 of 8

Great Technological Advances and the People Responsible

Box 1 of 8

Exhibit - Space Hall (folder 1 of 4)

Box 1 of 8

Box 2

Exhibit - Space Hall (folders 2-4 of 4)

Box 2 of 8

Apollo (2 folders)

Box 2 of 8

Exhibit Script - Silver Hill Museum (2 folders)

Box 2 of 8

Ranger, Lunar Orbiter Scripts

Box 2 of 8

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) Apollo Soyuz loan

Box 2 of 8

American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 4th annual meeting, 1967

Box 2 of 8

History and Technology of Flight Hall

Box 2 of 8

Evolution of the space suit, panel script

Box 2 of 8

Satellites and Space Probes Hall

Box 2 of 8

Satellites and Space Probes, script

Box 2 of 8

Apollo - Label concept and unit, unit scripts

Box 2 of 8

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) exhibit

Box 2 of 8

Apollo to the Moon, photos and slides

Box 2 of 8

Agreement - Russian Soyuz spacecraft modules

Box 2 of 8

Apollo reviews

Box 2 of 8

ASTP doghouses

Box 2 of 8

Box 3

Docking System

Box 3 of 8

Apollo to the Moon (2 folders)

Box 3 of 8

ASTP

Box 3 of 8

Cape ASTP

Box 3 of 8

United States (US)/USSR Cultural Agreement

Box 3 of 8

Apollo Gallery

Box 3 of 8

Spacesuit Exhibit Instructions

Box 3 of 8

Form letter - Information on Goddard

Box 3 of 8

Loan policy statement

Box 3 of 8

Form letter - Unidentified Flying Object (UFO)

Box 3 of 8

Form letter - Space program

Box 3 of 8

Deed of Gift Form

Box 3 of 8

Coordinator/Curator/Designer listing

Box 3 of 8

Exhibits meetings, FY 1983

Box 3 of 8

IMAX proposals

Box 3 of 8

Exhibit status reports

Box 3 of 8

IMAX

Box 3 of 8

IMAX, Space Shuttle

Box 3 of 8

Exhibits planning, 1984

Box 3 of 8

Exhibits procedure

Box 3 of 8

Howard Wolko

Box 3 of 8

Early Flight (2 folders)

Box 3 of 8

Jet aviation

Box 3 of 8

Minuteman 3

Box 3 of 8

Box 4

Thematic Unit Script - Flight Technology

Box 4 of 8

Understanding Flight Technology - Design Conference Theater

Box 4 of 8

Understanding Flight Technology - Space Technology Theater

Box 4 of 8

Early Flight

Box 4 of 8

Hall of X Airplanes (2 folders)

Box 4 of 8

Center for Live Demonstrations

Box 4 of 8

Aerospace Medicine

Box 4 of 8

Flight Testing

Box 4 of 8

X Airplanes (4 folders)

Box 4 of 8

Understanding flight technology (3 folders)

Box 4 of 8

Box 5

Flight Technology

Box 5 of 8

H-1 (2 folders)

Box 5 of 8

Hughes H-1 photographs

Box 5 of 8

Regional Resource Program, FY 1983

Box 5 of 8

Inventory Reconciliation

Box 5 of 8

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Networking

Box 5 of 8

Program Review, November 10, 1983 (2 folders)

Box 5 of 8

Military Space Program

Box 5 of 8

National Associates

Box 5 of 8

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Oral History Project

Box 5 of 8

QTA Space Science

Box 5 of 8

Stars Exhibit (2 folders)

Box 5 of 8

Frank H. Winter (3 folders)

Box 5 of 8

Stars schedule

Box 5 of 8

Stars images/Preliminary designs

Box 5 of 8

Stars acquisitions

Box 5 of 8

Stars Weekly Status Reports, FY 1983

Box 5 of 8

Stars Unit Secret

Box 5 of 8

Loan Policy

Box 5 of 8

Program Report, FY 1983

Box 5 of 8

Japanese Expositions

Box 5 of 8

Joint Atlantic Seminar, April 8-9, 1983

Box 5 of 8

Kellogg Museum Project

Box 5 of 8

Box 6

Kuwait

Box 6 of 8

Library circulation project

Box 6 of 8

Making of Stars film

Box 6 of 8

Milestones Exhibition Book

Box 6 of 8

Seidell Award Proposal, 1981

Box 6 of 8

NSF Proposals

Box 6 of 8

Office of Plant Services Support

Box 6 of 8

Refereeing

Box 6 of 8

James Gerber, "Research in Solar Energy as Groundwork for NASM (National Air and Space Museum) Exhibition," 1980

Box 6 of 8

Today's Weather

Box 6 of 8

Reading Files: September-December 1980 (4 folders)

Box 6 of 8

Reading Files: January-December 1981 (12 folders)

Box 6 of 8

Apollo Lunar Mission - Spacecraft Commander/Flight Plan

Box 6 of 8

Space Science Comes of Age

Box 6 of 8

Silver Hill Inventory

Box 6 of 8

Wilson Center

Box 6 of 8

Guggenheim

Box 6 of 8

Space Science and Exploration (SS&E) Outstanding Loans, computer printout

Box 6 of 8

SS&E collections, computer printout

Box 6 of 8

Exhibits reports

Box 6 of 8

Satellites

Box 6 of 8

Gallery Artifact Description lists

Box 6 of 8

Inventory, by manufacturers

Box 6 of 8

Box 7

Infrared observatory

Box 7 of 8

Solar max mission

Box 7 of 8

Solar polar mission

Box 7 of 8

Explorer 38 bibliography

Box 7 of 8

Explorer 53 bibliography

Box 7 of 8

Explorer 49 bibliography

Box 7 of 8

Earth satellites

Box 7 of 8

Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) 1, 2, 3

Box 7 of 8

High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) 1, 2, 3 bibliography

Box 7 of 8

OSS Explorer

Box 7 of 8

OAO repair ship

Box 7 of 8

Small Astronomy Satellite (SAS) 1,2,3 bibliography

Box 7 of 8

Historiography, W. Rundell

Box 7 of 8

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) transparency - Space Science and Application Platform - Geospace Physics Configuration

Box 7 of 8

Apollo Launch tower

Box 7 of 8

Apollo (2 folders)

Box 7 of 8

Northrop parachutes

Box 7 of 8

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Box 7 of 8

Distribution list for gaseous-core nuclear rockets, 1967-1968

Box 7 of 8

Acquisitions (SS&E), 1982

Box 7 of 8

American Physical Society, Baltimore, 1983

Box 7 of 8

American Physical Society - Executive Committee

Box 7 of 8

Archival storage

Box 7 of 8

Art work acquisition

Box 7 of 8

American Astronomical Society

Box 7 of 8

Berenzden Reception

Box 7 of 8

Bergman Lecture

Box 7 of 8

Budget request, FY 1983

Box 7 of 8

Collection Development policy

Box 7 of 8

Deaccession of artifacts

Box 7 of 8

Departmental plan

Box 7 of 8

Accession documentation policy

Box 7 of 8

Editorial advisory board

Box 7 of 8

Editorial review board

Box 7 of 8

Ethnoastronomy conference

Box 7 of 8

Gemini 12 Spacecraft

Box 7 of 8

German American Tricentennial

Box 7 of 8

Guggenheim

Box 7 of 8

Fellowships

Box 7 of 8

Foreign Visitors Service

Box 7 of 8

Toronto, 1980

Box 7 of 8

Social impact, baseline photos

Box 7 of 8

Acquisitions, 1982

Box 7 of 8

Smithsonian Institution (SI) Secretary

Box 7 of 8

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Box 7 of 8

Sky Interpretation

Box 7 of 8

Smithsonian World

Box 7 of 8

Smithsonian Year, 1982

Box 7 of 8

Spacesuits preservation

Box 7 of 8

Space Theater Consortium meeting

Box 7 of 8

Stars and planets symposium, January 1983

Box 7 of 8

Box 8

Stars "acquisition"

Box 8 of 8

Research and plans for future (2 folders)

Box 8 of 8

Responsible Curators fall meeting, October 1982

Box 8 of 8

The Road after 1984: High Technology and Human Freedom

Box 8 of 8

Rockets, missiles, and spacecraft of NASM

Box 8 of 8

Spacearium, alternative uses

Box 8 of 8

NASM Wernher von Braun Papers Project, 1978-1988 (Accession 18-184)

Box 8 of 8

von Braun Papers - Processing Notes, 1980-1981 (Accession 18-184)

Box 8 of 8

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