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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession 98-020

National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History

Subject Files, 1983-1993

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History
Title:Subject Files
Dates:1983-1993
Quantity:6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
Collection:Accession 98-020
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

These records consist of correspondence, memoranda, meeting agenda and notes, exhibit proposal and research, and program development records which were created by military historian Gregg Herken, Chairman of the Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum.

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of correspondence, memoranda, meeting agenda and notes, exhibition proposals and research, and program development records which were created by military historian Gregg Herken, Chairman of the Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum.

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Subject

Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-020, National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History, Subject Files

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Container List

Box 1

A - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos

Box 1 of 6

Air & Space Magazine

Box 1 of 6

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1987

Box 1 of 6

American Astronomical Society, 1986-1987

Box 1 of 6

Apollo Repair - Moscow, 1986-1987

Box 1 of 6

Applied Physics Lab, 1986-1987

Box 1 of 6

Arianespace, 1985

Box 1 of 6

Archive Memos, 1989

Box 1 of 6

Audio Visual, 1987

Box 1 of 6

Academic Hiring and Appraisal Committee

Box 1 of 6

B - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos

Box 1 of 6

Air & Space Bibliography Schedule

Box 1 of 6

Brewer Trophy, 1985-1987

Box 1 of 6

Brooks Award

Box 1 of 6

C - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos

Box 1 of 6

Collections Management Information System

Box 1 of 6

Curatorial Review Committee, 1987

Box 1 of 6

Career Awareness Program, 1987-1988

Box 1 of 6

Chairman Search, 1986-1987

Box 1 of 6

Chairman's Overview, 1986

Box 1 of 6

Challinor Report, 1986

Box 1 of 6

Collections Committee, 1985-1989 (2 folders)

Box 1 of 6

Collections Management, 1983-1988 (2 folders)

Box 1 of 6

Corn, Joseph

Box 1 of 6

Deutsches Museum, 1986

Box 1 of 6

Dick, Steven

Box 1 of 6

Digital Equipment Corporation, 1986

Box 1 of 6

Director's Search, 1986-1987

Box 1 of 6

E - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos, 1986-1989

Box 1 of 6

Educational Activities

Box 1 of 6

Enterprise Operations, 1987 (2 folders)

Box 1 of 6

European Space Agency, 1987

Box 1 of 6

Exhibits Coordinator's Report, 1987-1989

Box 1 of 6

Exploring Space, 1986-1989

Box 1 of 6

F - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos, 1986-1988

Box 1 of 6

Goddard, 1986

Box 1 of 6

H - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos, 1986-1988

Box 1 of 6

History of Science Society

Box 1 of 6

Hoffleit, Dorrit

Box 1 of 6

Hubble, 1988

Box 1 of 6

I - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos, 1986-1988

Box 1 of 6

ISCU, 1986

Box 1 of 6

Information Requests, 1988-1989

Box 1 of 6

International Astronomical Union (IAU), 1986 -1988

Box 1 of 6

International Space Year, 1986-1987

Box 1 of 6

Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), 1986-1988

Box 1 of 6

J - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos, 1986-1988

Box 1 of 6

K - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos, 1986-1988

Box 1 of 6

Box 2

Fundraising, 1987

Box 2 of 6

G - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos, 1986-1988

Box 2 of 6

Graduate Training, 1986

Box 2 of 6

Grants and Risk Management

Box 2 of 6

Guggenheim, 1986

Box 2 of 6

Guggenheim, 1987

Box 2 of 6

Guggenheim, 1988

Box 2 of 6

Guggenheim, 1989

Box 2 of 6

Gamma Ray Study, 1987

Box 2 of 6

Garber Open House, 1986

Box 2 of 6

Garber Open House, 1987

Box 2 of 6

Glennan-Webb-Seamans (GWS) Fund

Box 2 of 6

Goals and Objectives, 1988

Box 2 of 6

Garland

Box 2 of 6

Geiss/Apollo

Box 2 of 6

GWS Fund

Box 2 of 6

Garber

Box 2 of 6

General Dynamics

Box 2 of 6

Kraus, Ernst

Box 2 of 6

L - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos, 1986-1988

Box 2 of 6

Lunar Leftovers, 1987

Box 2 of 6

Lampbright, Henry

Box 2 of 6

Loan Printout Meeting, 1988

Box 2 of 6

M - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos

Box 2 of 6

Martin Marietta Chair

Box 2 of 6

McDonnell Douglas

Box 2 of 6

Milestones, 1987

Box 2 of 6

N - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos, 1983-1988

Box 2 of 6

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Artifacts

Box 2 of 6

National Air and Space Museum (NASM) Guide

Box 2 of 6

National Space Club

Box 2 of 6

Naval Research Laboratory

Box 2 of 6

National Capital Astronomers

Box 2 of 6

National Park Service Man in Space Study

Box 2 of 6

NASM Status Report, 1986

Box 2 of 6

NASM Trophy, 1986

Box 2 of 6

NASM Trophy, 1987-1988

Box 2 of 6

NASM Research Advisory Committee

Box 2 of 6

NASM Program Report, 1986

Box 2 of 6

NASA/NASM Transfer Agreement, 1986-1988

Box 2 of 6

NASM Advisory Board, 1986-1987

Box 2 of 6

NASM Archives Advisory Committee

Box 2 of 6

NASM Special Events, 1987

Box 2 of 6

NPS Alternatives

Box 2 of 6

O - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos

Box 2 of 6

Office Automation, 1986-1988

Box 2 of 6

Box 3

P - Miscellaneous

Box 3 of 6

Professional Accomplishments and Evaluation Committee (PAEC)

Box 3 of 6

Perkin, Elmer

Box 3 of 6

Planetarium, 1986-1988

Box 3 of 6

Power House Museum, 1986

Box 3 of 6

Program Report, 1986-1989

Box 3 of 6

Program Review, 1986

Box 3 of 6

Program Status

Box 3 of 6

Contractors, 1987

Box 3 of 6

Film Support, 1986

Box 3 of 6

Public Affairs Reviews

Box 3 of 6

Quetzalcoatlus Northrupi

Box 3 of 6

R - Miscellaneous

Box 3 of 6

Research Report, 1986

Box 3 of 6

Research Review, 1986

Box 3 of 6

Resident Associate Program (RAP), 1986

Box 3 of 6

Restoration Plan, 1987

Box 3 of 6

Rockwell

Box 3 of 6

Regents Meeting, 1986-1989

Box 3 of 6

Research Report, 1987

Box 3 of 6

Rowland Symposium (3 folders)

Box 3 of 6

S - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos

Box 3 of 6

Safety Review

Box 3 of 6

Saturn V Deaccession

Box 3 of 6

Scholarly Studies

Box 3 of 6

Seamans, Robert

Box 3 of 6

Seidell, 1987

Box 3 of 6

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), 1987

Box 3 of 6

Sloan, 1987

Box 3 of 6

Sloan Plan, 1987

Box 3 of 6

Sloan Arts Meeting

Box 3 of 6

Sloan College, 1987

Box 3 of 6

Smithson Fund, 1986

Box 3 of 6

Smithson File, 1987

Box 3 of 6

Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory, 1986

Box 3 of 6

Smithsonian Council, 1988

Box 3 of 6

Box 4

Smithsonian Year, 1988

Box 4 of 6

SI Libraries, 1988

Box 4 of 6

SI Press

Box 4 of 6

SI Program Report, 1986

Box 4 of 6

Smithsonian National Associate Program (SNAP), 1987

Box 4 of 6

Soviet Space Exhibition, 1986

Box 4 of 6

Space Science, 1986

Box 4 of 6

Space Science and Education (SS&E), 1986

Box 4 of 6

Space Telescope Project, 1988

Box 4 of 6

Space Utilization, 1988

Box 4 of 6

SI Equal Opportunity Summary, 1986

Box 4 of 6

Special Events, 1987

Box 4 of 6

Special Exhibition Fund, 1990

Box 4 of 6

SS&E Project Needs

Box 4 of 6

Stars, 1987

Box 4 of 6

T - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos, 1986-1988

Box 4 of 6

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), 1986

Box 4 of 6

USSR Embassy

Box 4 of 6

V - Miscellaneous Letters/Memos

Box 4 of 6

Visiting Committee, 1987

Box 4 of 6

Visiting Committee Research, 1987

Box 4 of 6

Visitor Information and Associates' Reception Center (VIARC) Replies, 1987

Box 4 of 6

V-2 Correspondence

Box 4 of 6

Von Braun Lecture, 1988

Box 4 of 6

Von Braun Lecture, 1987

Box 4 of 6

V - Miscellaneous

Box 4 of 6

W - Miscellaneous

Box 4 of 6

Washington Area Astronomers

Box 4 of 6

Webb Fund

Box 4 of 6

Research Report for Support

Box 4 of 6

Weekly Report, 1986

Box 4 of 6

Weekly Section Reports, 1986

Box 4 of 6

Weekly Section Reports Planetarium

Box 4 of 6

Weekly Section Report - Research

Box 4 of 6

Women's Committee

Box 4 of 6

Work in Progress, 1987

Box 4 of 6

Yale University

Box 4 of 6

Chairman Files of Gregg Herken

Mailing Lists for Curatorial Hires

Box 4 of 6

Japan

Box 4 of 6

1995 Project

Box 4 of 6

Future Deaccessions

Box 4 of 6

Deaccession List

Box 4 of 6

Cold War Project (2 folders)

Box 4 of 6

"A Long Twilight Struggle"

Box 4 of 6

Nippon Steel

Box 4 of 6

Soviet Union

Box 4 of 6

Space Race Files

Box 4 of 6

Box 5

Russian/Perot Component

Box 5 of 6

Space Race Script

Box 5 of 6

Gorin Reports

Box 5 of 6

Space Race Revisions

Box 5 of 6

Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Redo

Box 5 of 6

Perot Agreement

Box 5 of 6

Peter Gorin

Box 5 of 6

Lunar Lander

Box 5 of 6

Space Race Correspondence

Box 5 of 6

Film "The Space Race"

Box 5 of 6

Budget - Space Race

Box 5 of 6

Space Race E-Mail

Box 5 of 6

"Cold War" Exhibit

Box 5 of 6

Soviet Space Artifacts

Box 5 of 6

Star Trek Exhibit

Box 5 of 6

Stars

Box 5 of 6

"Cold War" Legacy (2 folders)

Box 5 of 6

Space Race Memos

Box 5 of 6

Perot File

Box 5 of 6

Adams, Robert McCormick

Box 5 of 6

Aeronautics Department, Organization and Procedures

Box 5 of 6

AGU - American Geophysical Union

Box 5 of 6

Archive Standards

Box 5 of 6

Biographies - Staff

Box 5 of 6

Budget, FY 1989

Box 5 of 6

Budget, FY 1987

Box 5 of 6

Budget, FY 1986

Box 5 of 6

Challenger Center

Box 5 of 6

Cold War Script

Box 5 of 6

Memo to Collections Committee

Box 5 of 6

Collections Rationale, 1991

Box 5 of 6

Computer Gallery memoranda (2 folders)

Box 5 of 6

Computer Gallery Budget

Box 5 of 6

Computer Gallery - Corporate Donations

Box 5 of 6

Director Staff Meeting Notes

Box 5 of 6

Departmental Policy

Box 5 of 6

Development Committee

Box 5 of 6

Disposition of Records

Box 5 of 6

Dissertation Abstracts

Box 5 of 6

Docent Training - Space Hall

Box 5 of 6

Docent Training - Manned Spaceflight Highlights

Box 5 of 6

Docent Training

Box 5 of 6

Electronics and Aerospace Conference (EASCON), 1986

Box 5 of 6

Enola Gay

Box 5 of 6

Enterprise (Shuttle)

Box 5 of 6

Box 6

European Space Agency (ESA) Journal

Box 6 of 6

Exhibits, FY 1986

Box 6 of 6

Exhibits, FY 1987

Box 6 of 6

Exhibits, FY 1988

Box 6 of 6

Exhibits, FY 1989

Box 6 of 6

Exhibits, FY 1992

Box 6 of 6

Exhibits - Outside Proposals

Box 6 of 6

Prospectus/Plan for Future Exhibits, October 1991 (Accession 09-159)

Box 6 of 6

Fellows

Box 6 of 6

Fellowships (3 folders)

Box 6 of 6

Freudenheim, Tom

Box 6 of 6

Gallery Listings

Box 6 of 6

Harwit, Martin

Box 6 of 6

Farm Hall Tapes (2 folders)

Box 6 of 6

International Fellowships

Box 6 of 6

International Science Foundation

Box 6 of 6

Inventory of 2-inch Apollo Videotapes

Box 6 of 6

M&M Mars

Box 6 of 6

NASM Publications Policy

Box 6 of 6

Office Organization

Box 6 of 6

Principles of Flight

Box 6 of 6

Publications

Box 6 of 6

Regent Fellowships

Box 6 of 6

Research Days - Policy, April 1993

Box 6 of 6

Research Opportunities Fund

Box 6 of 6

RFA - Naval Research Lab

Box 6 of 6

Safety File, 1992

Box 6 of 6

Secretary's Report

Box 6 of 6

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), 1993

Box 6 of 6

SI-Cornell University Fellowship Proposal

Box 6 of 6

Skramstead Report, 1991

Box 6 of 6

Sperry Gyro

Box 6 of 6

State by State Involvement - DSH Only, 1993

Box 6 of 6

Verville Fellowship

Box 6 of 6

Visitor Comments

Box 6 of 6

Volunteers

Box 6 of 6

Webb Fellowships

Box 6 of 6

Young Astronauts

Box 6 of 6

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