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Parsons Papers, 1910/2000","Ms.1987.016","Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)","Science and Technology","Aeronautics","Machine-tools -- Numerical control","John T. Parsons Company","Businesspeople","Inventors","The collection is open for research, except box 190 marked \"Personal\" in Division 10, which needs to be reviewed before access. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.","Some of this collection has been digitized for a digital exhibit, The Products of John T. Parsons.","The collection is divided into the ten series and some with subseries. These series and subseries have been imposed by archivists but are based on Parson's original order and description. Materials have been kept in original order where possible. Arrangement is chronological, then alphabetical where applicable.","Series I. Division 1: Corporate Office, 1940-1992, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Corporate Office General, 1943-1992, n.d.\nSubseries B. ParCor Financial Records, 1945-1969, n.d.\nSubseries C. Personnel, 1942-1972, n.d.\nSubseries D. Labor, 1952-1972\nSubseries E. Board of Directors Minutes, 1956-1968\nSubseries F. Corporate History, 1916-1960, n.d.\nSubseries G. Operations Control Systems, 1954-1968\nSubseries H. Corporate Office Master Files, 1948-1967, n.d.\nSubseries I. Corporate Office New Construction, 1942-1968, n.d.\t\nSubseries J. Patents and Legal Documents, 1940-1960\t\nSubseries K. MIT, 1951-1956, 1991-1992\n\nSeries II. Division 2: Automotive Division, 1937-1971, n.d.","Series III. Division 3: Appliance Division, 1924-1962, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. General Correspondence, 1924-1951, n.d.\nSubseries B. Products, 1941-1962, n.d.\n\nSeries IV. Division 4: Ordnance Division, 1933-1967, n.d.","Series V. Division 5: Aircraft Division, 1923, 1941-1992, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Foreign Activities, 1953-1968, n.d.\nSubseries B. General, 1923, 1942-1978, n.d.\nSubseries C. Helicopter Rotor Blades, 1943-1971, n.d.\nSubseries D. Numerical Control, 1941-1992, n.d.\nSubseries E. Special Products, 1943-1982, n.d.\nSubseries F. North America Rockwell, 1955-1956, 1964-1976, n.d.\n\nSeries VI. Division 6: Subsidiaries Division, 1957-1977, n.d.","Series VII. Division 7: Minor Products Division, 1943-1966, n.d.","Series VIII. Division 8: John T. Parsons Company, 1944-2000, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Financial/Legal, 1944-1994, n.d.\nSubseries B. Correspondence, 1948-1998, n.d.\nSubseries C. Controllable Pitch Propeller, 1946-1980, 1993, n.d.\nSubseries D. Computer Bilt, 1949-1989, n.d.\nSubseries E. Wind Energy Systems, 1964-1990, n.d.\nSubseries F. ParJon Master Files, 1968-1984\nSubseries G. Consulting, 1956-2000, n.d.\nSubseries H. Punch Presses, 1959-1984, n.d.\nSubseries I. HITCO and Whittaker, 1960-1982\nSubseries J. Ariel Files, 1989-1990\nSubseries K. Marathon Files, 1974-1977, 1980-1990, n.d.\nSubseries L. Nimble Keyboard, 1962-1989, n.d.\nSubseries M. Michigan Reports, 1970-1991, n.d.\nSubseries N. Pallet Manufacturing, 1969-1991, n.d.\nSubseries O. Motor Coach, 1968-1973, n.d.\nSubseries P. Newspaper Articles, 1981-1991, n.d.\nSubseries Q. Digitron, 1948-1993, n.d.\nSubseries R. General, 1965-1996, n.d.\n\nSeries IX.  Division 9: Personal, 1910-1997, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Industrial Brochures, 1951-1994, n.d.\nSubseries B. Trade Journals and Magazines, 1958-1990, n.d.\nSubseries C. Civic Ombudsman, 1967-1978, n.d.\nSubseries D. Environment, 1966-1985\nSubseries E. Filed Clippings, 1963-1991\nSubseries F. Community Involvement, 1927-1990, n.d.\nSubseries G. Parsons Reading Files, 1961-1969, n.d.\nSubseries H. Financial Reports of Other Companies, 1950-1985\nSubseries I. Traverse City, 1943-1995, n.d.\nSubseries J. John T. Parsons Personal Records, 1931-1996, n.d.\nSubseries K. Correspondence, 1930-1997, n.d.\nSubseries L. Swedish Affairs, 1916, 1938-1983, 1996\nSubseries M. Music, 1950, 1964, 1971-1982\nSubseries N. General, 1910-1994, n.d.\nSubseries O. Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1972-1996\nSubseries P. Ferris and State Jobs, 1961-1990, n.d.\n\nSeries X.  Division 10: Posters, Drawings, and Artifacts, 1947-1948, 1958-1978, 1984, 1990-1992, n.d.","John T. Parsons (1913-2007) was a manufacturer and inventor of numerical control, which is the application of computer technology to manufacturing processes.","Parsons produced bombs and land mines for U.S. government during World War II. He conceived a machine tool for automatically producing aircraft structural shapes from punch card/tape input (1946); executed a contract to produce the world's first numerical control milling machine (1949) and monitored design and completion of the machine (1950-1952). Parsons also originated an aircraft operation that became the world's largest designer, producer, and overhauler of helicopter rotor blades and built the first all-composite airplane for the Office of Naval Research. He created many other processes involving computer applications to manufacturing and received approximately fifty U.S. patents in the fields of numerical control, marine propellers, foundry systems, and data acquisition manufacturing methods.","Parsons served as president and owner of the Parsons Corporation of Traverse City, Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, and Stockton, California (1954-1968). He was then president and owner of the John T. Parsons Company, Traverse City, Michigan (1968-1986).","Among his numerous awards, Parsons was the first recipient of the Numerical Control Society's Joseph Marie Jacquard Award as the Father of Numerical Control (1968), a recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Engineering Citation as the person whose brilliant conceptualization of numerical control marked the beginning of the second industrial revolution (1975), recipient of the National Medal of Technology (1985), and recipient of the National Tooling and Machining Association's Distinguished Service Award (1987).","He died in Traverse City, Michigan at the age of 93.","The guide to the John T. Parsons Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the John T. Parsons Papers was completed in September 2023, as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).","The John T. Papers include correspondence, memoranda, financial records, engineering drawings and specifications, files about civic affairs in Traverse City, Michigan, reading files and other materials.","The following publications have been separated to the Rare Book Collection:","Spur, Günter. Produktionstechnisches Zentrum Berlin : Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungstechnik der TU Berlin (IWF) : Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik (IPK). Berlin:  Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik, Berlin, 1989. (Includes inscription in German to John T. Parsons.)","Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME 1990. Dearborn, Mich.:  Society of Manufacturing Engineers, North American Manufacturing Research Institute of SME, 1990. (Inscribed \"John T. Parsons\".)","Interlochen Center for the Arts. Alumni directory 1995. Produced for Interlochen Center for the Arts by Publishing Concepts Incorporated, The Clancy Way. (John T. Parsons's wife Elizabeth is listed as an alumni.)","Design, control and analysis of manufacturing systems : proceedings of the 27th CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, May 21-23, 1995, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. (Inscribed \"]John T. Parsons] was keynote speaker\".)","Metalworking : yesterday and tomorrow : the 100th anniversary issue of American machinist / by the editors of American machinist. New York : American machinist, [1978]. (Includes profile on John T. Parsons.) (Call number: TS205 .M469 Spec Large Copy 2)","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","John T. Parsons (1913-2007) was a manufacturer and inventor of numerical control, which is the application of computer technology to manufacturing processes. The John T. 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Dearborn, Mich.:  Society of Manufacturing Engineers, North American Manufacturing Research Institute of SME, 1990. (Inscribed \"John T. Parsons\".)","Interlochen Center for the Arts. Alumni directory 1995. Produced for Interlochen Center for the Arts by Publishing Concepts Incorporated, The Clancy Way. (John T. Parsons's wife Elizabeth is listed as an alumni.)","Design, control and analysis of manufacturing systems : proceedings of the 27th CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, May 21-23, 1995, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. (Inscribed \"]John T. Parsons] was keynote speaker\".)","Metalworking : yesterday and tomorrow : the 100th anniversary issue of American machinist / by the editors of American machinist. New York : American machinist, [1978]. (Includes profile on John T. Parsons.) (Call number: TS205 .M469 Spec Large Copy 2)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. 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Please contact Special Collections and Universtiy Archives for more information."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech"],"persname_ssim":["Parsons, John T., 1913-2007"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Parsons, John T., 1913-2007"],"language_ssim":["The materials in the collection are in English."],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":11294,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:29:28.240Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1459","ead_ssi":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1459","_root_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1459","_nest_parent_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1459","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1459.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Parsons, John T., Papers","title_ssm":["John T. 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Materials have been kept in original order where possible. Arrangement is chronological, then alphabetical where applicable.","Series I. Division 1: Corporate Office, 1940-1992, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Corporate Office General, 1943-1992, n.d.\nSubseries B. ParCor Financial Records, 1945-1969, n.d.\nSubseries C. Personnel, 1942-1972, n.d.\nSubseries D. Labor, 1952-1972\nSubseries E. Board of Directors Minutes, 1956-1968\nSubseries F. Corporate History, 1916-1960, n.d.\nSubseries G. Operations Control Systems, 1954-1968\nSubseries H. Corporate Office Master Files, 1948-1967, n.d.\nSubseries I. Corporate Office New Construction, 1942-1968, n.d.\t\nSubseries J. Patents and Legal Documents, 1940-1960\t\nSubseries K. MIT, 1951-1956, 1991-1992\n\nSeries II. Division 2: Automotive Division, 1937-1971, n.d.","Series III. Division 3: Appliance Division, 1924-1962, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. General Correspondence, 1924-1951, n.d.\nSubseries B. Products, 1941-1962, n.d.\n\nSeries IV. Division 4: Ordnance Division, 1933-1967, n.d.","Series V. Division 5: Aircraft Division, 1923, 1941-1992, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Foreign Activities, 1953-1968, n.d.\nSubseries B. General, 1923, 1942-1978, n.d.\nSubseries C. Helicopter Rotor Blades, 1943-1971, n.d.\nSubseries D. Numerical Control, 1941-1992, n.d.\nSubseries E. Special Products, 1943-1982, n.d.\nSubseries F. North America Rockwell, 1955-1956, 1964-1976, n.d.\n\nSeries VI. Division 6: Subsidiaries Division, 1957-1977, n.d.","Series VII. Division 7: Minor Products Division, 1943-1966, n.d.","Series VIII. Division 8: John T. Parsons Company, 1944-2000, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Financial/Legal, 1944-1994, n.d.\nSubseries B. Correspondence, 1948-1998, n.d.\nSubseries C. Controllable Pitch Propeller, 1946-1980, 1993, n.d.\nSubseries D. Computer Bilt, 1949-1989, n.d.\nSubseries E. Wind Energy Systems, 1964-1990, n.d.\nSubseries F. ParJon Master Files, 1968-1984\nSubseries G. Consulting, 1956-2000, n.d.\nSubseries H. Punch Presses, 1959-1984, n.d.\nSubseries I. HITCO and Whittaker, 1960-1982\nSubseries J. Ariel Files, 1989-1990\nSubseries K. Marathon Files, 1974-1977, 1980-1990, n.d.\nSubseries L. Nimble Keyboard, 1962-1989, n.d.\nSubseries M. Michigan Reports, 1970-1991, n.d.\nSubseries N. Pallet Manufacturing, 1969-1991, n.d.\nSubseries O. Motor Coach, 1968-1973, n.d.\nSubseries P. Newspaper Articles, 1981-1991, n.d.\nSubseries Q. Digitron, 1948-1993, n.d.\nSubseries R. General, 1965-1996, n.d.\n\nSeries IX.  Division 9: Personal, 1910-1997, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Industrial Brochures, 1951-1994, n.d.\nSubseries B. Trade Journals and Magazines, 1958-1990, n.d.\nSubseries C. Civic Ombudsman, 1967-1978, n.d.\nSubseries D. Environment, 1966-1985\nSubseries E. Filed Clippings, 1963-1991\nSubseries F. Community Involvement, 1927-1990, n.d.\nSubseries G. Parsons Reading Files, 1961-1969, n.d.\nSubseries H. Financial Reports of Other Companies, 1950-1985\nSubseries I. Traverse City, 1943-1995, n.d.\nSubseries J. John T. Parsons Personal Records, 1931-1996, n.d.\nSubseries K. Correspondence, 1930-1997, n.d.\nSubseries L. Swedish Affairs, 1916, 1938-1983, 1996\nSubseries M. Music, 1950, 1964, 1971-1982\nSubseries N. General, 1910-1994, n.d.\nSubseries O. Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1972-1996\nSubseries P. Ferris and State Jobs, 1961-1990, n.d.\n\nSeries X.  Division 10: Posters, Drawings, and Artifacts, 1947-1948, 1958-1978, 1984, 1990-1992, n.d.","John T. Parsons (1913-2007) was a manufacturer and inventor of numerical control, which is the application of computer technology to manufacturing processes.","Parsons produced bombs and land mines for U.S. government during World War II. He conceived a machine tool for automatically producing aircraft structural shapes from punch card/tape input (1946); executed a contract to produce the world's first numerical control milling machine (1949) and monitored design and completion of the machine (1950-1952). Parsons also originated an aircraft operation that became the world's largest designer, producer, and overhauler of helicopter rotor blades and built the first all-composite airplane for the Office of Naval Research. He created many other processes involving computer applications to manufacturing and received approximately fifty U.S. patents in the fields of numerical control, marine propellers, foundry systems, and data acquisition manufacturing methods.","Parsons served as president and owner of the Parsons Corporation of Traverse City, Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, and Stockton, California (1954-1968). He was then president and owner of the John T. Parsons Company, Traverse City, Michigan (1968-1986).","Among his numerous awards, Parsons was the first recipient of the Numerical Control Society's Joseph Marie Jacquard Award as the Father of Numerical Control (1968), a recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Engineering Citation as the person whose brilliant conceptualization of numerical control marked the beginning of the second industrial revolution (1975), recipient of the National Medal of Technology (1985), and recipient of the National Tooling and Machining Association's Distinguished Service Award (1987).","He died in Traverse City, Michigan at the age of 93.","The guide to the John T. Parsons Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the John T. Parsons Papers was completed in September 2023, as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).","The John T. Papers include correspondence, memoranda, financial records, engineering drawings and specifications, files about civic affairs in Traverse City, Michigan, reading files and other materials.","The following publications have been separated to the Rare Book Collection:","Spur, Günter. Produktionstechnisches Zentrum Berlin : Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungstechnik der TU Berlin (IWF) : Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik (IPK). Berlin:  Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik, Berlin, 1989. (Includes inscription in German to John T. Parsons.)","Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME 1990. 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Corporate Office Master Files, 1948-1967, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries I. Corporate Office New Construction, 1942-1968, n.d.\t\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries J. Patents and Legal Documents, 1940-1960\t\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries K. MIT, 1951-1956, 1991-1992\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e\nSeries II. Division 2: Automotive Division, 1937-1971, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Division 3: Appliance Division, 1924-1962, n.d.\n\u003clist\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries A. General Correspondence, 1924-1951, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries B. Products, 1941-1962, n.d.\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e\nSeries IV. Division 4: Ordnance Division, 1933-1967, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries V. Division 5: Aircraft Division, 1923, 1941-1992, n.d.\n\u003clist\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries A. Foreign Activities, 1953-1968, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries B. General, 1923, 1942-1978, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries C. Helicopter Rotor Blades, 1943-1971, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries D. Numerical Control, 1941-1992, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries E. Special Products, 1943-1982, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries F. North America Rockwell, 1955-1956, 1964-1976, n.d.\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e\nSeries VI. Division 6: Subsidiaries Division, 1957-1977, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII. Division 7: Minor Products Division, 1943-1966, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII. Division 8: John T. Parsons Company, 1944-2000, n.d.\n\u003clist\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries A. Financial/Legal, 1944-1994, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries B. Correspondence, 1948-1998, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries C. Controllable Pitch Propeller, 1946-1980, 1993, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries D. Computer Bilt, 1949-1989, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries E. Wind Energy Systems, 1964-1990, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries F. ParJon Master Files, 1968-1984\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries G. Consulting, 1956-2000, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries H. Punch Presses, 1959-1984, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries I. HITCO and Whittaker, 1960-1982\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries J. Ariel Files, 1989-1990\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries K. Marathon Files, 1974-1977, 1980-1990, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries L. Nimble Keyboard, 1962-1989, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries M. Michigan Reports, 1970-1991, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries N. Pallet Manufacturing, 1969-1991, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries O. Motor Coach, 1968-1973, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries P. Newspaper Articles, 1981-1991, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries Q. Digitron, 1948-1993, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries R. General, 1965-1996, n.d.\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e\nSeries IX.  Division 9: Personal, 1910-1997, n.d.\n\u003clist\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries A. Industrial Brochures, 1951-1994, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries B. Trade Journals and Magazines, 1958-1990, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries C. Civic Ombudsman, 1967-1978, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries D. Environment, 1966-1985\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries E. Filed Clippings, 1963-1991\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries F. Community Involvement, 1927-1990, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries G. Parsons Reading Files, 1961-1969, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries H. Financial Reports of Other Companies, 1950-1985\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries I. Traverse City, 1943-1995, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries J. John T. Parsons Personal Records, 1931-1996, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries K. Correspondence, 1930-1997, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries L. Swedish Affairs, 1916, 1938-1983, 1996\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries M. Music, 1950, 1964, 1971-1982\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries N. General, 1910-1994, n.d.\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries O. Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1972-1996\u003c/item\u003e\u003citem\u003e\nSubseries P. Ferris and State Jobs, 1961-1990, n.d.\n\u003c/item\u003e\u003c/list\u003e\nSeries X.  Division 10: Posters, Drawings, and Artifacts, 1947-1948, 1958-1978, 1984, 1990-1992, n.d.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is divided into the ten series and some with subseries. These series and subseries have been imposed by archivists but are based on Parson's original order and description. Materials have been kept in original order where possible. Arrangement is chronological, then alphabetical where applicable.","Series I. Division 1: Corporate Office, 1940-1992, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Corporate Office General, 1943-1992, n.d.\nSubseries B. ParCor Financial Records, 1945-1969, n.d.\nSubseries C. Personnel, 1942-1972, n.d.\nSubseries D. Labor, 1952-1972\nSubseries E. Board of Directors Minutes, 1956-1968\nSubseries F. Corporate History, 1916-1960, n.d.\nSubseries G. Operations Control Systems, 1954-1968\nSubseries H. Corporate Office Master Files, 1948-1967, n.d.\nSubseries I. Corporate Office New Construction, 1942-1968, n.d.\t\nSubseries J. Patents and Legal Documents, 1940-1960\t\nSubseries K. MIT, 1951-1956, 1991-1992\n\nSeries II. Division 2: Automotive Division, 1937-1971, n.d.","Series III. Division 3: Appliance Division, 1924-1962, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. General Correspondence, 1924-1951, n.d.\nSubseries B. Products, 1941-1962, n.d.\n\nSeries IV. Division 4: Ordnance Division, 1933-1967, n.d.","Series V. Division 5: Aircraft Division, 1923, 1941-1992, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Foreign Activities, 1953-1968, n.d.\nSubseries B. General, 1923, 1942-1978, n.d.\nSubseries C. Helicopter Rotor Blades, 1943-1971, n.d.\nSubseries D. Numerical Control, 1941-1992, n.d.\nSubseries E. Special Products, 1943-1982, n.d.\nSubseries F. North America Rockwell, 1955-1956, 1964-1976, n.d.\n\nSeries VI. Division 6: Subsidiaries Division, 1957-1977, n.d.","Series VII. Division 7: Minor Products Division, 1943-1966, n.d.","Series VIII. Division 8: John T. Parsons Company, 1944-2000, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Financial/Legal, 1944-1994, n.d.\nSubseries B. Correspondence, 1948-1998, n.d.\nSubseries C. Controllable Pitch Propeller, 1946-1980, 1993, n.d.\nSubseries D. Computer Bilt, 1949-1989, n.d.\nSubseries E. Wind Energy Systems, 1964-1990, n.d.\nSubseries F. ParJon Master Files, 1968-1984\nSubseries G. Consulting, 1956-2000, n.d.\nSubseries H. Punch Presses, 1959-1984, n.d.\nSubseries I. HITCO and Whittaker, 1960-1982\nSubseries J. Ariel Files, 1989-1990\nSubseries K. Marathon Files, 1974-1977, 1980-1990, n.d.\nSubseries L. Nimble Keyboard, 1962-1989, n.d.\nSubseries M. Michigan Reports, 1970-1991, n.d.\nSubseries N. Pallet Manufacturing, 1969-1991, n.d.\nSubseries O. Motor Coach, 1968-1973, n.d.\nSubseries P. Newspaper Articles, 1981-1991, n.d.\nSubseries Q. Digitron, 1948-1993, n.d.\nSubseries R. General, 1965-1996, n.d.\n\nSeries IX.  Division 9: Personal, 1910-1997, n.d.\n\nSubseries A. Industrial Brochures, 1951-1994, n.d.\nSubseries B. Trade Journals and Magazines, 1958-1990, n.d.\nSubseries C. Civic Ombudsman, 1967-1978, n.d.\nSubseries D. Environment, 1966-1985\nSubseries E. Filed Clippings, 1963-1991\nSubseries F. Community Involvement, 1927-1990, n.d.\nSubseries G. Parsons Reading Files, 1961-1969, n.d.\nSubseries H. Financial Reports of Other Companies, 1950-1985\nSubseries I. Traverse City, 1943-1995, n.d.\nSubseries J. John T. Parsons Personal Records, 1931-1996, n.d.\nSubseries K. Correspondence, 1930-1997, n.d.\nSubseries L. Swedish Affairs, 1916, 1938-1983, 1996\nSubseries M. Music, 1950, 1964, 1971-1982\nSubseries N. General, 1910-1994, n.d.\nSubseries O. Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1972-1996\nSubseries P. Ferris and State Jobs, 1961-1990, n.d.\n\nSeries X.  Division 10: Posters, Drawings, and Artifacts, 1947-1948, 1958-1978, 1984, 1990-1992, n.d."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn T. Parsons (1913-2007) was a manufacturer and inventor of numerical control, which is the application of computer technology to manufacturing processes. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParsons produced bombs and land mines for U.S. government during World War II. He conceived a machine tool for automatically producing aircraft structural shapes from punch card/tape input (1946); executed a contract to produce the world's first numerical control milling machine (1949) and monitored design and completion of the machine (1950-1952). Parsons also originated an aircraft operation that became the world's largest designer, producer, and overhauler of helicopter rotor blades and built the first all-composite airplane for the Office of Naval Research. He created many other processes involving computer applications to manufacturing and received approximately fifty U.S. patents in the fields of numerical control, marine propellers, foundry systems, and data acquisition manufacturing methods. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParsons served as president and owner of the Parsons Corporation of Traverse City, Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, and Stockton, California (1954-1968). He was then president and owner of the John T. Parsons Company, Traverse City, Michigan (1968-1986). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong his numerous awards, Parsons was the first recipient of the Numerical Control Society's Joseph Marie Jacquard Award as the Father of Numerical Control (1968), a recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Engineering Citation as the person whose brilliant conceptualization of numerical control marked the beginning of the second industrial revolution (1975), recipient of the National Medal of Technology (1985), and recipient of the National Tooling and Machining Association's Distinguished Service Award (1987). \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe died in Traverse City, Michigan at the age of 93.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["John T. Parsons (1913-2007) was a manufacturer and inventor of numerical control, which is the application of computer technology to manufacturing processes.","Parsons produced bombs and land mines for U.S. government during World War II. He conceived a machine tool for automatically producing aircraft structural shapes from punch card/tape input (1946); executed a contract to produce the world's first numerical control milling machine (1949) and monitored design and completion of the machine (1950-1952). Parsons also originated an aircraft operation that became the world's largest designer, producer, and overhauler of helicopter rotor blades and built the first all-composite airplane for the Office of Naval Research. He created many other processes involving computer applications to manufacturing and received approximately fifty U.S. patents in the fields of numerical control, marine propellers, foundry systems, and data acquisition manufacturing methods.","Parsons served as president and owner of the Parsons Corporation of Traverse City, Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, and Stockton, California (1954-1968). He was then president and owner of the John T. Parsons Company, Traverse City, Michigan (1968-1986).","Among his numerous awards, Parsons was the first recipient of the Numerical Control Society's Joseph Marie Jacquard Award as the Father of Numerical Control (1968), a recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Engineering Citation as the person whose brilliant conceptualization of numerical control marked the beginning of the second industrial revolution (1975), recipient of the National Medal of Technology (1985), and recipient of the National Tooling and Machining Association's Distinguished Service Award (1987).","He died in Traverse City, Michigan at the age of 93."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the John T. Parsons Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the John T. Parsons Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], John T. Parsons Papers, Ms1987-016, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], John T. Parsons Papers, Ms1987-016, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the John T. Parsons Papers was completed in September 2023, as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.archives.gov/nhprc\"\u003eNational Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the John T. Parsons Papers was completed in September 2023, as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe John T. Papers include correspondence, memoranda, financial records, engineering drawings and specifications, files about civic affairs in Traverse City, Michigan, reading files and other materials.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The John T. Papers include correspondence, memoranda, financial records, engineering drawings and specifications, files about civic affairs in Traverse City, Michigan, reading files and other materials."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following publications have been separated to the Rare Book Collection:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpur, Günter. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eProduktionstechnisches Zentrum Berlin : Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungstechnik der TU Berlin (IWF) : Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik (IPK)\u003c/title\u003e. Berlin:  Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik, Berlin, 1989. (Includes inscription in German to John T. Parsons.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTransactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME 1990.\u003c/title\u003e Dearborn, Mich.:  Society of Manufacturing Engineers, North American Manufacturing Research Institute of SME, 1990. (Inscribed \"John T. Parsons\".)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInterlochen Center for the Arts. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAlumni directory 1995.\u003c/title\u003e Produced for Interlochen Center for the Arts by Publishing Concepts Incorporated, The Clancy Way. (John T. Parsons's wife Elizabeth is listed as an alumni.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eDesign, control and analysis of manufacturing systems : proceedings of the 27th CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, May 21-23, 1995, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.\u003c/title\u003e (Inscribed \"]John T. Parsons] was keynote speaker\".)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003e Metalworking : yesterday and tomorrow : the 100th anniversary issue of American machinist / by the editors of American machinist.\u003c/title\u003e New York : American machinist, [1978]. (Includes profile on John T. Parsons.) (Call number: TS205 .M469 Spec Large Copy 2)\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The following publications have been separated to the Rare Book Collection:","Spur, Günter. Produktionstechnisches Zentrum Berlin : Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungstechnik der TU Berlin (IWF) : Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik (IPK). Berlin:  Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik, Berlin, 1989. (Includes inscription in German to John T. Parsons.)","Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SME 1990. Dearborn, Mich.:  Society of Manufacturing Engineers, North American Manufacturing Research Institute of SME, 1990. (Inscribed \"John T. Parsons\".)","Interlochen Center for the Arts. Alumni directory 1995. Produced for Interlochen Center for the Arts by Publishing Concepts Incorporated, The Clancy Way. (John T. Parsons's wife Elizabeth is listed as an alumni.)","Design, control and analysis of manufacturing systems : proceedings of the 27th CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, May 21-23, 1995, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. (Inscribed \"]John T. Parsons] was keynote speaker\".)","Metalworking : yesterday and tomorrow : the 100th anniversary issue of American machinist / by the editors of American machinist. New York : American machinist, [1978]. (Includes profile on John T. Parsons.) (Call number: TS205 .M469 Spec Large Copy 2)"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_9cf888f6d300eb29a4387b120cb9e3d4\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eJohn T. Parsons (1913-2007) was a manufacturer and inventor of numerical control, which is the application of computer technology to manufacturing processes. The John T. Papers include correspondence, memoranda, financial records, engineering drawings and specifications, files about civic affairs in Traverse City, Michigan, reading files and other materials.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["John T. Parsons (1913-2007) was a manufacturer and inventor of numerical control, which is the application of computer technology to manufacturing processes. The John T. Papers include correspondence, memoranda, financial records, engineering drawings and specifications, files about civic affairs in Traverse City, Michigan, reading files and other materials."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_99912e8d0360aebe60f12758e0b420e4\"\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePlease note:\u003c/emph\u003e This collection is in off-site storage and requires 2-3 days notice for retrieval. Please contact Special Collections and Universtiy Archives for more information.\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["Please note: This collection is in off-site storage and requires 2-3 days notice for retrieval. Please contact Special Collections and Universtiy Archives for more information."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech"],"persname_ssim":["Parsons, John T., 1913-2007"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Parsons, John T., 1913-2007"],"language_ssim":["The materials in the collection are in English."],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":11294,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:29:28.240Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1459"}},{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1785","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"John V. Becker Papers, 1936/1980","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1785#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Becker, John V. 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Becker Papers include correspondence, notes, memoranda and other materials related to NACA and NASA programs with which Becker was associated, including the X-1, X-15, X-20 (or Dyna-Soar) programs; research files for The High-Speed Frontier; transcripts of oral history interviews; and copies of publications and lectures by Becker, created between 1936 and 1980.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1785#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1785","ead_ssi":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1785","_root_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1785","_nest_parent_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1785","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1785.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Becker, John V. Papers","title_ssm":["John V. Becker Papers"],"title_tesim":["John V. 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In addition, this series has writings by colleagues on which Becker commented.","Series III: Talks and Presentations, 1946-1976, consists of talks and presentations given by Becker between 1946 and 1976. These include presentations given to the public (at conferences or invited events), as well as presentation given in the context of his job (for the military, NASA, and corporate partners).","Series IV: Research and Meeting Files, 1954-1974, n.d., contains research and subject files on various projects from Becker's career including, but not limited to, wind tunnels, hypersonic and supersonic flight, the X-15 (and precursors and successors), Dyna-Soar, and active cooling programs. In addition, this series contains notes from meetings with supervisors, project partners, committees. This series may also have correspondence not located in Series I.","John Vernon Becker was born in Albany, New York, in 1913. He graduated from NYU in 1935 with a degree in mechanical engineering and an MS in 1936. He began working at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory later that year. During his career, he served as . Head of the 16-ft. Wind Tunnel Branch (1943-1947), chief of the Compressibility Research Division (1947-1957), and chief of the Aero-Physics Research Division (1958-1974) at NACA and NASA-Langley. He was a specialist in hypersonic and reentry aerodynamics and a pioneer in the development of hypersonic research aircraft, including the X-15. Becker retired from NASA in 1974. He was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 1980, he authored The High-Speed Frontier: Case Histories of Four NACA Programs, 1920-1950 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1980). He died in 2020.","A longer biography of Becker is availalbe on the NASA website: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/john-v-becker/.","See also Becker's obituary online at https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailypress/name/john-becker-obituary?id=14163893.","The guide to the John V. Becker Papersn by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The initial processing, arrangement, and description of the John V. Becker Papers was completed in 1990. Additional description, re-housing of the collection, and the creation of series was completed in August 2018.","The John V. 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During his career, he served as . Head of the 16-ft. Wind Tunnel Branch (1943-1947), chief of the Compressibility Research Division (1947-1957), and chief of the Aero-Physics Research Division (1958-1974) at NACA and NASA-Langley. He was a specialist in hypersonic and reentry aerodynamics and a pioneer in the development of hypersonic research aircraft, including the X-15. Becker retired from NASA in 1974. He was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 1980, he authored \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe High-Speed Frontier: Case Histories of Four NACA Programs, 1920-1950\u003c/title\u003e (Washington, DC: NASA, 1980). He died in 2020.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA longer biography of Becker is availalbe on the NASA website: \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/john-v-becker/\"\u003ehttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/john-v-becker/\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee also Becker's obituary online at \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailypress/name/john-becker-obituary?id=14163893\"\u003ehttps://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailypress/name/john-becker-obituary?id=14163893\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Vernon Becker was born in Albany, New York, in 1913. He graduated from NYU in 1935 with a degree in mechanical engineering and an MS in 1936. He began working at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory later that year. During his career, he served as . Head of the 16-ft. Wind Tunnel Branch (1943-1947), chief of the Compressibility Research Division (1947-1957), and chief of the Aero-Physics Research Division (1958-1974) at NACA and NASA-Langley. He was a specialist in hypersonic and reentry aerodynamics and a pioneer in the development of hypersonic research aircraft, including the X-15. Becker retired from NASA in 1974. He was elected a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 1980, he authored The High-Speed Frontier: Case Histories of Four NACA Programs, 1920-1950 (Washington, DC: NASA, 1980). He died in 2020.","A longer biography of Becker is availalbe on the NASA website: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/john-v-becker/.","See also Becker's obituary online at https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailypress/name/john-becker-obituary?id=14163893."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the John V. 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Additional description, re-housing of the collection, and the creation of series was completed in August 2018."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe John V. Becker Papers contain correspondence, notes, memoranda and other materials related to NACA and NASA programs with which Becker was associated, including the X-1, X-15, X-20 (or Dyna-Soar) programs, research files for \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe High-Speed Frontier\u003c/title\u003e and other writings, transcripts of oral history interviews, and copies of publications and lectures by Becker. The majority of materials were created between 1936 and 1980, with the bulk dated between 1946 and 1976. There are also undated materials, but based on their content, they date to the same active time period of Becker's career.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The John V. Becker Papers contain correspondence, notes, memoranda and other materials related to NACA and NASA programs with which Becker was associated, including the X-1, X-15, X-20 (or Dyna-Soar) programs, research files for The High-Speed Frontier and other writings, transcripts of oral history interviews, and copies of publications and lectures by Becker. The majority of materials were created between 1936 and 1980, with the bulk dated between 1946 and 1976. There are also undated materials, but based on their content, they date to the same active time period of Becker's career."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_f5c87fc1d7385a3085da0fe7733bd06e\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eTHe John V. Becker Papers include correspondence, notes, memoranda and other materials related to NACA and NASA programs with which Becker was associated, including the X-1, X-15, X-20 (or Dyna-Soar) programs; research files for The High-Speed Frontier; transcripts of oral history interviews; and copies of publications and lectures by Becker, created between 1936 and 1980.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["THe John V. 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Gough Papers, 1919/1973","Ms.1987.057","Aircraft accidents","Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)","Science and Technology","Aeronautical engineers","Air pilots","Test pilots","The collection is open for research.","Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online.","When the arrangement of a series or subseries is chronological, all the files within a given year are arranged alphabetically. Where the contents of folders span two or more years, they are arranged by period, with all the entries for 1941-1943 (for example) before the entries for 1941-1944. The arrangement of a series or subseries is chronological unless otherwise noted.","The collection has been separated into eleven series:","Series I: Aircraft Design Considerations, 1921-1971","Series II: Specific Aircraft, 1919-1971. This series has been further divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Helicopter Files, 1943-1958.","Subseries B: Missile Files, 1948-1960","Subseries C: Planes, 1919-1971. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by plane name.","Series III: Logs, 1929-1959","Series IV: Aircraft Safety, 1930-1968. This series has been further divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Accidents and Incidents, 1948-1967","Subseries B: Fires, 1930-1963","Subseries C: Investigations and Analyses, 1941-1962","Subseries D: Safety and Prevention, 1950-1968","Series V: Aviation and People, 1933-1971. This series has been further divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Piloting Aircraft, 1933-1959","Subseries B: Files on People, 1934-1971","Series VI: Organizations and Consulting Files, 1925-1973. This series is arranged alphabetically by entity name.","Series VII: Photographs, 1920-1969","Series VIII: Correspondence, 1942-1969","Series IX: Talks and Speeches, 1934-1963","Series X: Personal Files, 1930-1965","Series XI: General Files, 1925-1969","Melvin N. Gough was born in Washington, D. C., in 1906. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1926. In the same year he began a long career with the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in Hampton, Virginia. From 1926 to 1958, Gough was successively an engineer, a test pilot (he was commissioned as a naval aviator in 1929), Chief Test Pilot, and Chief of Flight Research at NACA-Langley.","When NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, Gough transferred to Cape Canaveral, where he was Director of NASA Operations at the Atlantic Missile Range for two years. In 1960, he became Director of the Bureau of Safety for the Civil Aeronautics Board. From 1962, he was Director of Aircraft Development of the Federal Aviation Agency, retiring from government service in 1964. He died on March 6, 1994.","Gough's professional organization memberships include the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (of which he was a Fellow) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (also a Fellow). He served on the Board of Governors of the Flight Safety Foundation and was a charter member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators. He received the Octave Chanute Award for Test Pilots from the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1941 for \"outstanding contributions in the field of aeronautics\"; the Distinguished Service Award from the Flight Safety Foundation in 1956 for \"distinguished service in achieving safer utilization of aircraft\"; and the Flight Safety Foundation's Laura Taber Barbour Award in 1960 for championing \"through unstinting personal activity the cause of flight safety.\" For his contributions to aeronautical history, Gough was elected to the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame.","The guide to the Melvin N. Gough Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Melvin N. Gough Papers commenced and was completed in 1990.","Additional arrangement and description of the Melvin N. Gough Papers was completed as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) in 2024.","Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives also has the following related collections: Christopher C. Kraft Papers, Ms1985-001, Robert R. Gilruth Papers, Ms1990-053, and Hartley A. Soule Papers, Ms1987-004.","The Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. It is especially rich in materials from his years at NACA-Langley and equally rich on the topics of aviation safety and accident investigation procedures.","The papers are organized largely according to Gough's own filing system, and there is some degree of overlap in the contents of folders. Many of the folders include manuscript materials and other items such as magazine articles and newspaper clippings. The NACA reports and other documents that are individually listed include manuscript annotations, correspondence, or other items that make them unique. Documents published before 1930 are also listed individually, whether they have manuscript items associated with them or not. Other NACA reports and miscellaneous publications are arranged chronologically. NACA reports are usually grouped by year; other publications are grouped by decade.","The collection has been separated into eleven series:","Series I: Aircraft Design Considerations, 1921-1971, contains materials related to aircraft design and flight, such as notes and reports on aerodynamics, files on airplane parts such as cowling, landing gear, and instruments, and articles on design and performance.","Series II: Specific Aircraft, 1919-1971, includes files specific to a certain type of aircraft, and is divided into three subseries by subject.","Subseries A: Helicopter Files, 1943-1958, comprises materials related to helicopters such as notes, flight trials, articles, and accident reports.","Subseries B: Missile Files, 1948-1960, documents missle development, such as progress reports and files on locations like White Sands Proving Ground.","Subseries C: Planes, 1919-1971, alphabetized by plane name, contains reports, tests, and files on specific planes, such as the Boeing 707, Lockheed Electra, and the Hiller X-18.","Series III: Logs, 1929-1959, consists of daily logs and pilot logs.","Series IV: Aircraft Safety, 1930-1968, divided into four subseries, comprises files on aviation safety—both crashes and preventative measures.","Subseries A: Accidents and Incidents, 1948-1967, contains Gough's files on flight accidents and incidents, including crash reports, photographs, and studies.","Subseries B: Fires, 1930-1963, has files on fires in aviation accidents and the safety of aviation fuels.","Subseries C: Investigations and Analyses, 1941-1962, focuses on accident analysis and methodology in accident investigations, including reports and articles on the subject.","Subseries D: Safety and Prevention, 1950-1968, relates to flight safety, accident survival, and emergency procedures. It includes bulletins from the Flight Safety Foundation, reports, and files from the first annual U.S. Air Force Safety Congress.","Series V: Aviation and People, 1933-1971, is divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Piloting Aircraft, 1933-1959, focuses on pilots, such as publications on handling characteristics, psychological aspects of instrument displays, pilot errors, and the pilot's role in space flight.","Subseries B: Files on People, 1934-1971, consists of Gough's files on people and personnel, such as pilots Warren Eaton and Howard Lily, and NACA-Langley employees.","Series VI: Organizations and Consulting Files, 1925-1973, documents organizations Gough was a member of or did consulting work for. Organizations include the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Society of Automotive Engineers.","Series VII: Photographs, 1920-1969, contains photographs depicting pilots, cockpits, and the Langley Research Center.","Series VIII: Correspondence, 1942-1969, comprises personal and professional correspondence, including letters, telephone calls, and notes.","Series IX: Talks and Speeches, 1934-1963, includes notes on talks and speeches given by Gough.","Series X: Personal Files, 1930-1965, contains Gough's personal files, such as contacts, biographical information, curriculum vitae, and calendars.","Series XI: General Files, 1925-1969, includes publications, papers, articles, and data on general topics.","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. 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This series has been further divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Helicopter Files, 1943-1958.","Subseries B: Missile Files, 1948-1960","Subseries C: Planes, 1919-1971. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by plane name.","Series III: Logs, 1929-1959","Series IV: Aircraft Safety, 1930-1968. This series has been further divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Accidents and Incidents, 1948-1967","Subseries B: Fires, 1930-1963","Subseries C: Investigations and Analyses, 1941-1962","Subseries D: Safety and Prevention, 1950-1968","Series V: Aviation and People, 1933-1971. This series has been further divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Piloting Aircraft, 1933-1959","Subseries B: Files on People, 1934-1971","Series VI: Organizations and Consulting Files, 1925-1973. This series is arranged alphabetically by entity name.","Series VII: Photographs, 1920-1969","Series VIII: Correspondence, 1942-1969","Series IX: Talks and Speeches, 1934-1963","Series X: Personal Files, 1930-1965","Series XI: General Files, 1925-1969"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMelvin N. Gough was born in Washington, D. C., in 1906. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1926. In the same year he began a long career with the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in Hampton, Virginia. From 1926 to 1958, Gough was successively an engineer, a test pilot (he was commissioned as a naval aviator in 1929), Chief Test Pilot, and Chief of Flight Research at NACA-Langley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhen NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, Gough transferred to Cape Canaveral, where he was Director of NASA Operations at the Atlantic Missile Range for two years. In 1960, he became Director of the Bureau of Safety for the Civil Aeronautics Board. From 1962, he was Director of Aircraft Development of the Federal Aviation Agency, retiring from government service in 1964. He died on March 6, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGough's professional organization memberships include the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (of which he was a Fellow) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (also a Fellow). He served on the Board of Governors of the Flight Safety Foundation and was a charter member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators. He received the Octave Chanute Award for Test Pilots from the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1941 for \"outstanding contributions in the field of aeronautics\"; the Distinguished Service Award from the Flight Safety Foundation in 1956 for \"distinguished service in achieving safer utilization of aircraft\"; and the Flight Safety Foundation's Laura Taber Barbour Award in 1960 for championing \"through unstinting personal activity the cause of flight safety.\" For his contributions to aeronautical history, Gough was elected to the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Melvin N. Gough was born in Washington, D. C., in 1906. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1926. In the same year he began a long career with the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in Hampton, Virginia. From 1926 to 1958, Gough was successively an engineer, a test pilot (he was commissioned as a naval aviator in 1929), Chief Test Pilot, and Chief of Flight Research at NACA-Langley.","When NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, Gough transferred to Cape Canaveral, where he was Director of NASA Operations at the Atlantic Missile Range for two years. In 1960, he became Director of the Bureau of Safety for the Civil Aeronautics Board. From 1962, he was Director of Aircraft Development of the Federal Aviation Agency, retiring from government service in 1964. He died on March 6, 1994.","Gough's professional organization memberships include the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (of which he was a Fellow) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (also a Fellow). He served on the Board of Governors of the Flight Safety Foundation and was a charter member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators. He received the Octave Chanute Award for Test Pilots from the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1941 for \"outstanding contributions in the field of aeronautics\"; the Distinguished Service Award from the Flight Safety Foundation in 1956 for \"distinguished service in achieving safer utilization of aircraft\"; and the Flight Safety Foundation's Laura Taber Barbour Award in 1960 for championing \"through unstinting personal activity the cause of flight safety.\" For his contributions to aeronautical history, Gough was elected to the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Melvin N. Gough Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Melvin N. Gough Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Melvin N. Gough Papers, Ms1987-057, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Melvin N. Gough Papers, Ms1987-057, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Melvin N. Gough Papers commenced and was completed in 1990. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional arrangement and description of the Melvin N. Gough Papers was completed as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.archives.gov/nhprc\"\u003eNational Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)\u003c/a\u003e in 2024. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Melvin N. Gough Papers commenced and was completed in 1990.","Additional arrangement and description of the Melvin N. Gough Papers was completed as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) in 2024."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives also has the following related collections: \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1406.xml\"\u003eChristopher C. Kraft Papers, Ms1985-001\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1786.xml\"\u003eRobert R. Gilruth Papers, Ms1990-053\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1447.xml\"\u003eHartley A. Soule Papers, Ms1987-004\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Archival Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives also has the following related collections: Christopher C. Kraft Papers, Ms1985-001, Robert R. Gilruth Papers, Ms1990-053, and Hartley A. Soule Papers, Ms1987-004."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. It is especially rich in materials from his years at NACA-Langley and equally rich on the topics of aviation safety and accident investigation procedures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers are organized largely according to Gough's own filing system, and there is some degree of overlap in the contents of folders. Many of the folders include manuscript materials and other items such as magazine articles and newspaper clippings. The NACA reports and other documents that are individually listed include manuscript annotations, correspondence, or other items that make them unique. Documents published before 1930 are also listed individually, whether they have manuscript items associated with them or not. Other NACA reports and miscellaneous publications are arranged chronologically. NACA reports are usually grouped by year; other publications are grouped by decade.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection has been separated into eleven series:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Aircraft Design Considerations, 1921-1971, contains materials related to aircraft design and flight, such as notes and reports on aerodynamics, files on airplane parts such as cowling, landing gear, and instruments, and articles on design and performance. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Specific Aircraft, 1919-1971, includes files specific to a certain type of aircraft, and is divided into three subseries by subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: Helicopter Files, 1943-1958, comprises materials related to helicopters such as notes, flight trials, articles, and accident reports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries B: Missile Files, 1948-1960, documents missle development, such as progress reports and files on locations like White Sands Proving Ground.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries C: Planes, 1919-1971, alphabetized by plane name, contains reports, tests, and files on specific planes, such as the Boeing 707, Lockheed Electra, and the Hiller X-18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Logs, 1929-1959, consists of daily logs and pilot logs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Aircraft Safety, 1930-1968, divided into four subseries, comprises files on aviation safety—both crashes and preventative measures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: Accidents and Incidents, 1948-1967, contains Gough's files on flight accidents and incidents, including crash reports, photographs, and studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries B: Fires, 1930-1963, has files on fires in aviation accidents and the safety of aviation fuels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries C: Investigations and Analyses, 1941-1962, focuses on accident analysis and methodology in accident investigations, including reports and articles on the subject.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries D: Safety and Prevention, 1950-1968, relates to flight safety, accident survival, and emergency procedures. It includes bulletins from the Flight Safety Foundation, reports, and files from the first annual U.S. Air Force Safety Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Aviation and People, 1933-1971, is divided into subseries by subject:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries A: Piloting Aircraft, 1933-1959, focuses on pilots, such as publications on handling characteristics, psychological aspects of instrument displays, pilot errors, and the pilot's role in space flight.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubseries B: Files on People, 1934-1971, consists of Gough's files on people and personnel, such as pilots Warren Eaton and Howard Lily, and NACA-Langley employees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI: Organizations and Consulting Files, 1925-1973, documents organizations Gough was a member of or did consulting work for. Organizations include the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Society of Automotive Engineers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII: Photographs, 1920-1969, contains photographs depicting pilots, cockpits, and the Langley Research Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII: Correspondence, 1942-1969, comprises personal and professional correspondence, including letters, telephone calls, and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IX: Talks and Speeches, 1934-1963, includes notes on talks and speeches given by Gough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries X: Personal Files, 1930-1965, contains Gough's personal files, such as contacts, biographical information, curriculum vitae, and calendars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XI: General Files, 1925-1969, includes publications, papers, articles, and data on general topics.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. It is especially rich in materials from his years at NACA-Langley and equally rich on the topics of aviation safety and accident investigation procedures.","The papers are organized largely according to Gough's own filing system, and there is some degree of overlap in the contents of folders. Many of the folders include manuscript materials and other items such as magazine articles and newspaper clippings. The NACA reports and other documents that are individually listed include manuscript annotations, correspondence, or other items that make them unique. Documents published before 1930 are also listed individually, whether they have manuscript items associated with them or not. Other NACA reports and miscellaneous publications are arranged chronologically. NACA reports are usually grouped by year; other publications are grouped by decade.","The collection has been separated into eleven series:","Series I: Aircraft Design Considerations, 1921-1971, contains materials related to aircraft design and flight, such as notes and reports on aerodynamics, files on airplane parts such as cowling, landing gear, and instruments, and articles on design and performance.","Series II: Specific Aircraft, 1919-1971, includes files specific to a certain type of aircraft, and is divided into three subseries by subject.","Subseries A: Helicopter Files, 1943-1958, comprises materials related to helicopters such as notes, flight trials, articles, and accident reports.","Subseries B: Missile Files, 1948-1960, documents missle development, such as progress reports and files on locations like White Sands Proving Ground.","Subseries C: Planes, 1919-1971, alphabetized by plane name, contains reports, tests, and files on specific planes, such as the Boeing 707, Lockheed Electra, and the Hiller X-18.","Series III: Logs, 1929-1959, consists of daily logs and pilot logs.","Series IV: Aircraft Safety, 1930-1968, divided into four subseries, comprises files on aviation safety—both crashes and preventative measures.","Subseries A: Accidents and Incidents, 1948-1967, contains Gough's files on flight accidents and incidents, including crash reports, photographs, and studies.","Subseries B: Fires, 1930-1963, has files on fires in aviation accidents and the safety of aviation fuels.","Subseries C: Investigations and Analyses, 1941-1962, focuses on accident analysis and methodology in accident investigations, including reports and articles on the subject.","Subseries D: Safety and Prevention, 1950-1968, relates to flight safety, accident survival, and emergency procedures. It includes bulletins from the Flight Safety Foundation, reports, and files from the first annual U.S. Air Force Safety Congress.","Series V: Aviation and People, 1933-1971, is divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Piloting Aircraft, 1933-1959, focuses on pilots, such as publications on handling characteristics, psychological aspects of instrument displays, pilot errors, and the pilot's role in space flight.","Subseries B: Files on People, 1934-1971, consists of Gough's files on people and personnel, such as pilots Warren Eaton and Howard Lily, and NACA-Langley employees.","Series VI: Organizations and Consulting Files, 1925-1973, documents organizations Gough was a member of or did consulting work for. Organizations include the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Society of Automotive Engineers.","Series VII: Photographs, 1920-1969, contains photographs depicting pilots, cockpits, and the Langley Research Center.","Series VIII: Correspondence, 1942-1969, comprises personal and professional correspondence, including letters, telephone calls, and notes.","Series IX: Talks and Speeches, 1934-1963, includes notes on talks and speeches given by Gough.","Series X: Personal Files, 1930-1965, contains Gough's personal files, such as contacts, biographical information, curriculum vitae, and calendars.","Series XI: General Files, 1925-1969, includes publications, papers, articles, and data on general topics."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_9cbc21a2359c537c2ec335eff51b3088\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. Types of materials include NACA and Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) reports and documents, articles, correspondence, notes and speeches, and newspaper and magazine clippings. Gough (1906-1994) was an engineer,  pilot, and administrator at NACA/NASA from 1926 to 1960.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. Types of materials include NACA and Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) reports and documents, articles, correspondence, notes and speeches, and newspaper and magazine clippings. Gough (1906-1994) was an engineer,  pilot, and administrator at NACA/NASA from 1926 to 1960."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_99d6d5fae72dd0a3795b7bf8c6ccf3a9\"\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePlease note:\u003c/emph\u003e This boxes in this collection are in off-site storage and require 2-3 days notice for retrieval. An oversize folder is available onsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for further information.\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["Please note: This boxes in this collection are in off-site storage and require 2-3 days notice for retrieval. An oversize folder is available onsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for further information."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. Civil Aeronautics Board","United States. Federal Aviation Agency","United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics","United States. 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(Melvin Neilson), 1906-1994","Gilruth, Robert R. (Robert Rowe), 1913-2000","Kraft, Christopher C. (Christopher Columbus), 1924-2019","Soule, Hartley A. (Hartley Akin), 1904-1988"],"language_ssim":["The materials in the collection are in English."],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":650,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:29:47.882Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1500","ead_ssi":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1500","_root_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1500","_nest_parent_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1500","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1500.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Gough, Melvin N., Papers","title_ssm":["Melvin N. Gough Papers"],"title_tesim":["Melvin N. 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The arrangement of a series or subseries is chronological unless otherwise noted.","The collection has been separated into eleven series:","Series I: Aircraft Design Considerations, 1921-1971","Series II: Specific Aircraft, 1919-1971. This series has been further divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Helicopter Files, 1943-1958.","Subseries B: Missile Files, 1948-1960","Subseries C: Planes, 1919-1971. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by plane name.","Series III: Logs, 1929-1959","Series IV: Aircraft Safety, 1930-1968. This series has been further divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Accidents and Incidents, 1948-1967","Subseries B: Fires, 1930-1963","Subseries C: Investigations and Analyses, 1941-1962","Subseries D: Safety and Prevention, 1950-1968","Series V: Aviation and People, 1933-1971. This series has been further divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Piloting Aircraft, 1933-1959","Subseries B: Files on People, 1934-1971","Series VI: Organizations and Consulting Files, 1925-1973. This series is arranged alphabetically by entity name.","Series VII: Photographs, 1920-1969","Series VIII: Correspondence, 1942-1969","Series IX: Talks and Speeches, 1934-1963","Series X: Personal Files, 1930-1965","Series XI: General Files, 1925-1969","Melvin N. Gough was born in Washington, D. C., in 1906. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1926. In the same year he began a long career with the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in Hampton, Virginia. From 1926 to 1958, Gough was successively an engineer, a test pilot (he was commissioned as a naval aviator in 1929), Chief Test Pilot, and Chief of Flight Research at NACA-Langley.","When NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, Gough transferred to Cape Canaveral, where he was Director of NASA Operations at the Atlantic Missile Range for two years. In 1960, he became Director of the Bureau of Safety for the Civil Aeronautics Board. From 1962, he was Director of Aircraft Development of the Federal Aviation Agency, retiring from government service in 1964. He died on March 6, 1994.","Gough's professional organization memberships include the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (of which he was a Fellow) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (also a Fellow). He served on the Board of Governors of the Flight Safety Foundation and was a charter member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators. He received the Octave Chanute Award for Test Pilots from the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1941 for \"outstanding contributions in the field of aeronautics\"; the Distinguished Service Award from the Flight Safety Foundation in 1956 for \"distinguished service in achieving safer utilization of aircraft\"; and the Flight Safety Foundation's Laura Taber Barbour Award in 1960 for championing \"through unstinting personal activity the cause of flight safety.\" For his contributions to aeronautical history, Gough was elected to the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame.","The guide to the Melvin N. Gough Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Melvin N. Gough Papers commenced and was completed in 1990.","Additional arrangement and description of the Melvin N. Gough Papers was completed as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) in 2024.","Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives also has the following related collections: Christopher C. Kraft Papers, Ms1985-001, Robert R. Gilruth Papers, Ms1990-053, and Hartley A. Soule Papers, Ms1987-004.","The Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. It is especially rich in materials from his years at NACA-Langley and equally rich on the topics of aviation safety and accident investigation procedures.","The papers are organized largely according to Gough's own filing system, and there is some degree of overlap in the contents of folders. Many of the folders include manuscript materials and other items such as magazine articles and newspaper clippings. The NACA reports and other documents that are individually listed include manuscript annotations, correspondence, or other items that make them unique. Documents published before 1930 are also listed individually, whether they have manuscript items associated with them or not. Other NACA reports and miscellaneous publications are arranged chronologically. NACA reports are usually grouped by year; other publications are grouped by decade.","The collection has been separated into eleven series:","Series I: Aircraft Design Considerations, 1921-1971, contains materials related to aircraft design and flight, such as notes and reports on aerodynamics, files on airplane parts such as cowling, landing gear, and instruments, and articles on design and performance.","Series II: Specific Aircraft, 1919-1971, includes files specific to a certain type of aircraft, and is divided into three subseries by subject.","Subseries A: Helicopter Files, 1943-1958, comprises materials related to helicopters such as notes, flight trials, articles, and accident reports.","Subseries B: Missile Files, 1948-1960, documents missle development, such as progress reports and files on locations like White Sands Proving Ground.","Subseries C: Planes, 1919-1971, alphabetized by plane name, contains reports, tests, and files on specific planes, such as the Boeing 707, Lockheed Electra, and the Hiller X-18.","Series III: Logs, 1929-1959, consists of daily logs and pilot logs.","Series IV: Aircraft Safety, 1930-1968, divided into four subseries, comprises files on aviation safety—both crashes and preventative measures.","Subseries A: Accidents and Incidents, 1948-1967, contains Gough's files on flight accidents and incidents, including crash reports, photographs, and studies.","Subseries B: Fires, 1930-1963, has files on fires in aviation accidents and the safety of aviation fuels.","Subseries C: Investigations and Analyses, 1941-1962, focuses on accident analysis and methodology in accident investigations, including reports and articles on the subject.","Subseries D: Safety and Prevention, 1950-1968, relates to flight safety, accident survival, and emergency procedures. It includes bulletins from the Flight Safety Foundation, reports, and files from the first annual U.S. Air Force Safety Congress.","Series V: Aviation and People, 1933-1971, is divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Piloting Aircraft, 1933-1959, focuses on pilots, such as publications on handling characteristics, psychological aspects of instrument displays, pilot errors, and the pilot's role in space flight.","Subseries B: Files on People, 1934-1971, consists of Gough's files on people and personnel, such as pilots Warren Eaton and Howard Lily, and NACA-Langley employees.","Series VI: Organizations and Consulting Files, 1925-1973, documents organizations Gough was a member of or did consulting work for. Organizations include the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Society of Automotive Engineers.","Series VII: Photographs, 1920-1969, contains photographs depicting pilots, cockpits, and the Langley Research Center.","Series VIII: Correspondence, 1942-1969, comprises personal and professional correspondence, including letters, telephone calls, and notes.","Series IX: Talks and Speeches, 1934-1963, includes notes on talks and speeches given by Gough.","Series X: Personal Files, 1930-1965, contains Gough's personal files, such as contacts, biographical information, curriculum vitae, and calendars.","Series XI: General Files, 1925-1969, includes publications, papers, articles, and data on general topics.","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. Types of materials include NACA and Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) reports and documents, articles, correspondence, notes and speeches, and newspaper and magazine clippings. Gough (1906-1994) was an engineer,  pilot, and administrator at NACA/NASA from 1926 to 1960.","Please note: This boxes in this collection are in off-site storage and require 2-3 days notice for retrieval. An oversize folder is available onsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for further information.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. Civil Aeronautics Board","United States. Federal Aviation Agency","United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics","United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Gough, Melvin N. (Melvin Neilson), 1906-1994","Gilruth, Robert R. (Robert Rowe), 1913-2000","Kraft, Christopher C. (Christopher Columbus), 1924-2019","Soule, Hartley A. 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Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Melvin N. 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This series is arranged alphabetically by entity name.","Series VII: Photographs, 1920-1969","Series VIII: Correspondence, 1942-1969","Series IX: Talks and Speeches, 1934-1963","Series X: Personal Files, 1930-1965","Series XI: General Files, 1925-1969"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMelvin N. Gough was born in Washington, D. C., in 1906. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1926. In the same year he began a long career with the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in Hampton, Virginia. From 1926 to 1958, Gough was successively an engineer, a test pilot (he was commissioned as a naval aviator in 1929), Chief Test Pilot, and Chief of Flight Research at NACA-Langley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhen NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, Gough transferred to Cape Canaveral, where he was Director of NASA Operations at the Atlantic Missile Range for two years. In 1960, he became Director of the Bureau of Safety for the Civil Aeronautics Board. From 1962, he was Director of Aircraft Development of the Federal Aviation Agency, retiring from government service in 1964. He died on March 6, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGough's professional organization memberships include the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (of which he was a Fellow) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (also a Fellow). He served on the Board of Governors of the Flight Safety Foundation and was a charter member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators. He received the Octave Chanute Award for Test Pilots from the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1941 for \"outstanding contributions in the field of aeronautics\"; the Distinguished Service Award from the Flight Safety Foundation in 1956 for \"distinguished service in achieving safer utilization of aircraft\"; and the Flight Safety Foundation's Laura Taber Barbour Award in 1960 for championing \"through unstinting personal activity the cause of flight safety.\" For his contributions to aeronautical history, Gough was elected to the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Melvin N. Gough was born in Washington, D. C., in 1906. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1926. In the same year he began a long career with the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in Hampton, Virginia. From 1926 to 1958, Gough was successively an engineer, a test pilot (he was commissioned as a naval aviator in 1929), Chief Test Pilot, and Chief of Flight Research at NACA-Langley.","When NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958, Gough transferred to Cape Canaveral, where he was Director of NASA Operations at the Atlantic Missile Range for two years. In 1960, he became Director of the Bureau of Safety for the Civil Aeronautics Board. From 1962, he was Director of Aircraft Development of the Federal Aviation Agency, retiring from government service in 1964. He died on March 6, 1994.","Gough's professional organization memberships include the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (of which he was a Fellow) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (also a Fellow). He served on the Board of Governors of the Flight Safety Foundation and was a charter member of the Society of Air Safety Investigators. He received the Octave Chanute Award for Test Pilots from the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1941 for \"outstanding contributions in the field of aeronautics\"; the Distinguished Service Award from the Flight Safety Foundation in 1956 for \"distinguished service in achieving safer utilization of aircraft\"; and the Flight Safety Foundation's Laura Taber Barbour Award in 1960 for championing \"through unstinting personal activity the cause of flight safety.\" For his contributions to aeronautical history, Gough was elected to the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Melvin N. 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Many of the folders include manuscript materials and other items such as magazine articles and newspaper clippings. The NACA reports and other documents that are individually listed include manuscript annotations, correspondence, or other items that make them unique. Documents published before 1930 are also listed individually, whether they have manuscript items associated with them or not. Other NACA reports and miscellaneous publications are arranged chronologically. 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Organizations include the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Society of Automotive Engineers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII: Photographs, 1920-1969, contains photographs depicting pilots, cockpits, and the Langley Research Center.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII: Correspondence, 1942-1969, comprises personal and professional correspondence, including letters, telephone calls, and notes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IX: Talks and Speeches, 1934-1963, includes notes on talks and speeches given by Gough.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries X: Personal Files, 1930-1965, contains Gough's personal files, such as contacts, biographical information, curriculum vitae, and calendars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XI: General Files, 1925-1969, includes publications, papers, articles, and data on general topics.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Melvin N. 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NACA reports are usually grouped by year; other publications are grouped by decade.","The collection has been separated into eleven series:","Series I: Aircraft Design Considerations, 1921-1971, contains materials related to aircraft design and flight, such as notes and reports on aerodynamics, files on airplane parts such as cowling, landing gear, and instruments, and articles on design and performance.","Series II: Specific Aircraft, 1919-1971, includes files specific to a certain type of aircraft, and is divided into three subseries by subject.","Subseries A: Helicopter Files, 1943-1958, comprises materials related to helicopters such as notes, flight trials, articles, and accident reports.","Subseries B: Missile Files, 1948-1960, documents missle development, such as progress reports and files on locations like White Sands Proving Ground.","Subseries C: Planes, 1919-1971, alphabetized by plane name, contains reports, tests, and files on specific planes, such as the Boeing 707, Lockheed Electra, and the Hiller X-18.","Series III: Logs, 1929-1959, consists of daily logs and pilot logs.","Series IV: Aircraft Safety, 1930-1968, divided into four subseries, comprises files on aviation safety—both crashes and preventative measures.","Subseries A: Accidents and Incidents, 1948-1967, contains Gough's files on flight accidents and incidents, including crash reports, photographs, and studies.","Subseries B: Fires, 1930-1963, has files on fires in aviation accidents and the safety of aviation fuels.","Subseries C: Investigations and Analyses, 1941-1962, focuses on accident analysis and methodology in accident investigations, including reports and articles on the subject.","Subseries D: Safety and Prevention, 1950-1968, relates to flight safety, accident survival, and emergency procedures. It includes bulletins from the Flight Safety Foundation, reports, and files from the first annual U.S. Air Force Safety Congress.","Series V: Aviation and People, 1933-1971, is divided into subseries by subject:","Subseries A: Piloting Aircraft, 1933-1959, focuses on pilots, such as publications on handling characteristics, psychological aspects of instrument displays, pilot errors, and the pilot's role in space flight.","Subseries B: Files on People, 1934-1971, consists of Gough's files on people and personnel, such as pilots Warren Eaton and Howard Lily, and NACA-Langley employees.","Series VI: Organizations and Consulting Files, 1925-1973, documents organizations Gough was a member of or did consulting work for. Organizations include the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Society of Automotive Engineers.","Series VII: Photographs, 1920-1969, contains photographs depicting pilots, cockpits, and the Langley Research Center.","Series VIII: Correspondence, 1942-1969, comprises personal and professional correspondence, including letters, telephone calls, and notes.","Series IX: Talks and Speeches, 1934-1963, includes notes on talks and speeches given by Gough.","Series X: Personal Files, 1930-1965, contains Gough's personal files, such as contacts, biographical information, curriculum vitae, and calendars.","Series XI: General Files, 1925-1969, includes publications, papers, articles, and data on general topics."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_9cbc21a2359c537c2ec335eff51b3088\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. Types of materials include NACA and Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) reports and documents, articles, correspondence, notes and speeches, and newspaper and magazine clippings. Gough (1906-1994) was an engineer,  pilot, and administrator at NACA/NASA from 1926 to 1960.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Melvin N. Gough Papers span from 1919 to 1971 and include a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. Types of materials include NACA and Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) reports and documents, articles, correspondence, notes and speeches, and newspaper and magazine clippings. 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Air Force, 1953-1973. This series contains Collins' individual flight record (including his later NASA flights) and an accident report for the crash of an F-86 fighter jet piloted by him. The series also consists of a number of test pilot manuals from the USAF Flight Test Center and reports written by Collins while at the Experimental Flight Test Pilot School. Additionally, there are a few items relating to survival training and an Aerospace Research Pilot School publication with sketches and photographs of ARPS and Experimental Test Pilot School graduates. The series is arranged chronologically.","Series II. Project Gemini, 1962-1967. The Project Gemini Series contains a number of preparatory materials which has instruction manuals, class materials and Collins' own notes on astronomy, geology and the Gemini spacecraft. From the Gemini 10 flight, the series consists of an audio recording of the liftoff, transcripts of voice communications and mission commentaries, and photographs. The series also comprises official post-mission reports and two Gemini 10 newsclipping scrapbooks. The series is arranged in subseries by material type.","Series III. Project Apollo, 1966-2004. Like the Project Gemini series, this series contains Collins' preparatory notes. Additionally, it includes transcripts of mission commentary, flight communications, and press feeds during post-flight recovery of the command module. The series has a number of audio recordings, which range from a pre-flight press conference to television coverage of the mission, and post-mission public appearances by the crew. Print media coverage of the mission may be found in a set of NASA Current News publications and other printed materials. The series consists of approximately 200 mission photographs and a number of commemorative materials. (Among the more unusual items are a collection of songs and poems inspired by Apollo 11 and a book of congratulatory letters from French civic leaders.) Post-mission materials comprises files devoted to five- and ten-year anniversary observances of the moon landing and audio recordings relating to the Apollo program and missions 12 and 13. The series is arranged in subseries by material type. Within subseries, materials are in chronological order wherever possible.","Series IV. Assistant Secretary of State, 1969-1971. Collins' brief career with the U. S. State Department is chronicled here through notes, correspondence (including letters from President Nixon), audio recordings and printed materials. The series is arranged by item format, then chronologically.","Series V. National Air and Space Museum, 1971-1979. This series comprises materials relating to Collins' directorship of NASM - particularly to the museum's design, groundbreaking and opening. The collection also consists of newsclippings devoted to museum exhibits and Collins as director. Audio recordings of events commemorating Collins' farewell complete the series. Arranged by form of item, then chronologically.","Series VI. Boards and Clubs, 1973-1989. This series, largely devoted to the many advisory and editorial boards on which Collins served throughout the 1970s and 1980s, includes correspondence, notes, printed materials and photographs. There are a few folders on clubs to which Collins belonged. The series is arranged alphabetically by organization name.","Series VII. Writings, 1908-2004. This series comprises materials relating to the writing and publication of Collins' books Carrying the Fire, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places, and Liftoff! and includes background materials, typescripts, galley proofs, reviews and publicity. (The files for Carrying the Fire also have correspondence with Charles Lindbergh about his foreword to the book.) A number of Collins' articles, book reviews and opinion / editorial pieces are contained here as well. The series is arranged in subseries by publication type (book, magazine article, book review, etc.), then chronologically within each subseries.","Series VIII. Speeches, 1970-1996. Collins' many public addresses throughout the 1970s and 1980s are represented here with background materials, speech texts, printed materials and photographs. The series is arranged chronologically by date of speech.","Series IX. Personal Correspondence, 1963-1973. This small series comprises correspondence which did not fit neatly into those series devoted to specific aspects of Collins' career. It has a number of letters relating to NASA and the Apollo program. (Most noteworthy are letters from \"Buzz\" Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh and Lyndon B. Johnson.) The series is arranged chronologically.","Series X. Biographical Materials, 1966-2003. Like the personal correspondence series, this series was created from materials not associated with any specific aspect of Collins' public career. The series consists of a few printed materials with interviews or biographical sketches of Collins and several photographs. The series is arranged in subsidies by material type.","Series XI. Honors and Memorabilia, 1961-1989. This series contains awards honoring Collins and his work the form of certificates, medals, and plaques from the United States, individual states, foreign countries, military organizations, and private corporations. The series also has just a few items of memorabilia, among which are a piece of fabric from the Kitty Hawk \"Wright Flyer,\" Collins' pilot clipboard, a Gemini sunscreen plate, a short film of Collins family scenes and commemorative items from NASA's Apollo and Voyager missions. The series is arranged in subsidies by material type. Within subseries, materials are in chronological order wherever possible.","Pilot, astronaut, U.S. assistant secretary of state, National Air and Space Museum director, and author, Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy, on October 31, 1930. He graduated from Saint Albans School in Washington, D.C., before attending the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), where he obtained a bachelor of science degree in 1952.","Collins received an Air Force commission and, after pilot training, was assigned to Nellis Air Base for advanced training on the F-86 Sabrejet. Upon completion of training, he was assigned to the 21st Fighter- Bomber Wing, stationed in Victorville, California and, later, France. In 1961, Collins completed test pilot school and was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base, where he tested experimental fighter jets. (In the meantime, he had married Patricia Finnegan; the couple would have three children: Kathleen, Ann and Michael.)","Interested in NASA's manned space program, Collins enrolled in the newly established Aerospace Pilot School in 1963. In October of that year, he was among the third group of astronauts selected by NASA. Collins served as a member of the backup crew for the Gemini 7 mission and as pilot of NASA's Gemini 10 mission (launched July 18, 1966) with commander John Young. Among the mission's noteworthy accomplishments were the establishment of a new orbital altitude record, a rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle, and two spacewalks conducted by Collins.","Due to the rotational basis on which astronauts were assigned to Apollo missions, Collins was originally scheduled to be a member of the Apollo 8 flight crew. His need for back surgery, however, forced his re- assignment to a later mission. The postponement placed Collins on the crew of Apollo 11 (launched July 16, 1969), the first manned mission to land on the lunar surface. As the mission's command module pilot, Collins orbited the moon while commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin E. \"Buzz\" Aldrin descended to its surface.","In January 1970, Collins resigned from NASA and served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs before becoming the first director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in April 1971; he was promoted to undersecretary of the Smithsonian in April 1978. During this time, Collins began writing about his experiences in the space program, leading to his book Carrying the Fire(and a subsequent children's adaptation, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places). His expertise and talents led to numerous requests for speaking engagements, articles and book reviews. In 1988, he published Liftoff!,a book on the history and future of space exploration; his Mission to Marswas published in 1990.","Collins served on the boards of numerous organizations and corporations throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He became vice-president of field operations for the Vought Corporation in 1980, then resigned to head his own consulting firm, Michael Collins Associates, in 1985. He retired from the Air Force Reserve with the rank of major general in 1982.","Collins' awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom; the Collier, Harmon and Goddard trophies; the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; the Distinguished Flying Cross and many others. He has received awards from eleven other countries and honorary degrees from six colleges and universities.","Michael Collins died on April 28, 2021.","The guide to the Michael Collins Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Michael Collins Papers commenced in July 2003 and was completed in September 2003. Preliminary processing had been performed during the early 1990s. Donations from 2005 and 2007 were processed, arranged, and described in November and December 2014.","The Michael Collins Papers document the life and career of Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), and author.","The collection comprises correspondence, notes, printed material, photographs, and audio recordings from Collins' Air Force career, training at the U. S. Test Pilot School and Experimental Flight Center, participation in NASA's Gemini and Apollo programs, and tenure at the State Department and NASM. The collection also includes materials associated with Collins' books Carrying the Fire, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places, and Liftoff!, as well as various articles and book reviews written by him. Collins' many public appearances are represented here with background materials, speech notes, texts, printed material, and photographs. The collection also contains a number of files, largely composed of correspondence, devoted to Collins' involvement with various boards and clubs. In addition, there are small sets of personal correspondence, biographical materials, and an assortment of honors and memorabilia.","The following items were transferred to the Rare Book Collection:\n\n\nAeronautics: The American Magazine of Aerial Locomotion, 8(5), November 1910.\n\n\nHallion, Richard P., \"Girding for War: Perspectives on Research, Development, Acquisition, and the Decision-making Environment of the 1980's,\" Edwards Air Force Base, CA: History Office, Air Force Flight Test Center, 1985.\n\n\nJourney to Halley's Comet, [S.l.]: NASA, 1980.\n\n\nNational Security Strategy of the United States, Washington, D.C.: The White House, 1988.\n\n\nOrigin and Evolution of Life--Implications for the Planets: a Scientific Strategy for the 1980's, Washington, D. C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1981.\n\n\nOur First Quarter Century of Achievement... Just the Beginning [NASA 25th anniversary press kit], [S.l.]: NASA, 1983.\n\n\nReport to the President : Actions to Implement the Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, [Washington, D.C.: U.S.G.P.O., 1986].\n\n\nTo the Moon : the Story in Sound [sound recordings with accompanying book], New York: Time Life Records, 1969.\n\n\nEthics of Change: Humanistic Values versus Technological Imperatives, New Smyrna Beach, FL: Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1988.\n\n\nViking Orbiter Views of Mars, Washington, DC: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1980.","Much of this collection is copyrighted. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The collection includes the papers of Michael Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum and author, dating from 1907-2004. Materials include reports, instruction manuals, personal notes, printed materials, audio recordings, photographs, awards and memorabilia associated with Collins' Air Force, NASA, State Department and NASM careers. 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The Project Gemini Series contains a number of preparatory materials which has instruction manuals, class materials and Collins' own notes on astronomy, geology and the Gemini spacecraft. From the Gemini 10 flight, the series consists of an audio recording of the liftoff, transcripts of voice communications and mission commentaries, and photographs. The series also comprises official post-mission reports and two Gemini 10 newsclipping scrapbooks. The series is arranged in subseries by material type.","Series III. Project Apollo, 1966-2004. Like the Project Gemini series, this series contains Collins' preparatory notes. Additionally, it includes transcripts of mission commentary, flight communications, and press feeds during post-flight recovery of the command module. The series has a number of audio recordings, which range from a pre-flight press conference to television coverage of the mission, and post-mission public appearances by the crew. Print media coverage of the mission may be found in a set of NASA Current News publications and other printed materials. The series consists of approximately 200 mission photographs and a number of commemorative materials. (Among the more unusual items are a collection of songs and poems inspired by Apollo 11 and a book of congratulatory letters from French civic leaders.) Post-mission materials comprises files devoted to five- and ten-year anniversary observances of the moon landing and audio recordings relating to the Apollo program and missions 12 and 13. The series is arranged in subseries by material type. Within subseries, materials are in chronological order wherever possible.","Series IV. Assistant Secretary of State, 1969-1971. Collins' brief career with the U. S. State Department is chronicled here through notes, correspondence (including letters from President Nixon), audio recordings and printed materials. The series is arranged by item format, then chronologically.","Series V. National Air and Space Museum, 1971-1979. This series comprises materials relating to Collins' directorship of NASM - particularly to the museum's design, groundbreaking and opening. The collection also consists of newsclippings devoted to museum exhibits and Collins as director. Audio recordings of events commemorating Collins' farewell complete the series. Arranged by form of item, then chronologically.","Series VI. Boards and Clubs, 1973-1989. This series, largely devoted to the many advisory and editorial boards on which Collins served throughout the 1970s and 1980s, includes correspondence, notes, printed materials and photographs. There are a few folders on clubs to which Collins belonged. The series is arranged alphabetically by organization name.","Series VII. Writings, 1908-2004. This series comprises materials relating to the writing and publication of Collins' books Carrying the Fire, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places, and Liftoff! and includes background materials, typescripts, galley proofs, reviews and publicity. (The files for Carrying the Fire also have correspondence with Charles Lindbergh about his foreword to the book.) A number of Collins' articles, book reviews and opinion / editorial pieces are contained here as well. The series is arranged in subseries by publication type (book, magazine article, book review, etc.), then chronologically within each subseries.","Series VIII. Speeches, 1970-1996. Collins' many public addresses throughout the 1970s and 1980s are represented here with background materials, speech texts, printed materials and photographs. The series is arranged chronologically by date of speech.","Series IX. Personal Correspondence, 1963-1973. This small series comprises correspondence which did not fit neatly into those series devoted to specific aspects of Collins' career. It has a number of letters relating to NASA and the Apollo program. (Most noteworthy are letters from \"Buzz\" Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh and Lyndon B. Johnson.) The series is arranged chronologically.","Series X. Biographical Materials, 1966-2003. Like the personal correspondence series, this series was created from materials not associated with any specific aspect of Collins' public career. The series consists of a few printed materials with interviews or biographical sketches of Collins and several photographs. The series is arranged in subsidies by material type.","Series XI. Honors and Memorabilia, 1961-1989. This series contains awards honoring Collins and his work the form of certificates, medals, and plaques from the United States, individual states, foreign countries, military organizations, and private corporations. The series also has just a few items of memorabilia, among which are a piece of fabric from the Kitty Hawk \"Wright Flyer,\" Collins' pilot clipboard, a Gemini sunscreen plate, a short film of Collins family scenes and commemorative items from NASA's Apollo and Voyager missions. The series is arranged in subsidies by material type. Within subseries, materials are in chronological order wherever possible."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePilot, astronaut, U.S. assistant secretary of state, National Air and Space Museum director, and author, Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy, on October 31, 1930. He graduated from Saint Albans School in Washington, D.C., before attending the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), where he obtained a bachelor of science degree in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollins received an Air Force commission and, after pilot training, was assigned to Nellis Air Base for advanced training on the F-86 Sabrejet. Upon completion of training, he was assigned to the 21st Fighter- Bomber Wing, stationed in Victorville, California and, later, France. In 1961, Collins completed test pilot school and was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base, where he tested experimental fighter jets. (In the meantime, he had married Patricia Finnegan; the couple would have three children: Kathleen, Ann and Michael.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInterested in NASA's manned space program, Collins enrolled in the newly established Aerospace Pilot School in 1963. In October of that year, he was among the third group of astronauts selected by NASA. Collins served as a member of the backup crew for the Gemini 7 mission and as pilot of NASA's Gemini 10 mission (launched July 18, 1966) with commander John Young. Among the mission's noteworthy accomplishments were the establishment of a new orbital altitude record, a rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle, and two spacewalks conducted by Collins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDue to the rotational basis on which astronauts were assigned to Apollo missions, Collins was originally scheduled to be a member of the Apollo 8 flight crew. His need for back surgery, however, forced his re- assignment to a later mission. The postponement placed Collins on the crew of Apollo 11 (launched July 16, 1969), the first manned mission to land on the lunar surface. As the mission's command module pilot, Collins orbited the moon while commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin E. \"Buzz\" Aldrin descended to its surface.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn January 1970, Collins resigned from NASA and served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs before becoming the first director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in April 1971; he was promoted to undersecretary of the Smithsonian in April 1978. During this time, Collins began writing about his experiences in the space program, leading to his book \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCarrying the Fire\u003c/title\u003e(and a subsequent children's adaptation, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFlying to the Moon and Other Strange Places\u003c/title\u003e). His expertise and talents led to numerous requests for speaking engagements, articles and book reviews. In 1988, he published \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLiftoff!,\u003c/title\u003ea book on the history and future of space exploration; his \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMission to Mars\u003c/title\u003ewas published in 1990.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollins served on the boards of numerous organizations and corporations throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He became vice-president of field operations for the Vought Corporation in 1980, then resigned to head his own consulting firm, Michael Collins Associates, in 1985. He retired from the Air Force Reserve with the rank of major general in 1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollins' awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom; the Collier, Harmon and Goddard trophies; the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; the Distinguished Flying Cross and many others. He has received awards from eleven other countries and honorary degrees from six colleges and universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMichael Collins died on April 28, 2021.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Pilot, astronaut, U.S. assistant secretary of state, National Air and Space Museum director, and author, Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy, on October 31, 1930. He graduated from Saint Albans School in Washington, D.C., before attending the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), where he obtained a bachelor of science degree in 1952.","Collins received an Air Force commission and, after pilot training, was assigned to Nellis Air Base for advanced training on the F-86 Sabrejet. Upon completion of training, he was assigned to the 21st Fighter- Bomber Wing, stationed in Victorville, California and, later, France. In 1961, Collins completed test pilot school and was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base, where he tested experimental fighter jets. (In the meantime, he had married Patricia Finnegan; the couple would have three children: Kathleen, Ann and Michael.)","Interested in NASA's manned space program, Collins enrolled in the newly established Aerospace Pilot School in 1963. In October of that year, he was among the third group of astronauts selected by NASA. Collins served as a member of the backup crew for the Gemini 7 mission and as pilot of NASA's Gemini 10 mission (launched July 18, 1966) with commander John Young. Among the mission's noteworthy accomplishments were the establishment of a new orbital altitude record, a rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle, and two spacewalks conducted by Collins.","Due to the rotational basis on which astronauts were assigned to Apollo missions, Collins was originally scheduled to be a member of the Apollo 8 flight crew. His need for back surgery, however, forced his re- assignment to a later mission. The postponement placed Collins on the crew of Apollo 11 (launched July 16, 1969), the first manned mission to land on the lunar surface. As the mission's command module pilot, Collins orbited the moon while commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin E. \"Buzz\" Aldrin descended to its surface.","In January 1970, Collins resigned from NASA and served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs before becoming the first director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in April 1971; he was promoted to undersecretary of the Smithsonian in April 1978. During this time, Collins began writing about his experiences in the space program, leading to his book Carrying the Fire(and a subsequent children's adaptation, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places). His expertise and talents led to numerous requests for speaking engagements, articles and book reviews. In 1988, he published Liftoff!,a book on the history and future of space exploration; his Mission to Marswas published in 1990.","Collins served on the boards of numerous organizations and corporations throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He became vice-president of field operations for the Vought Corporation in 1980, then resigned to head his own consulting firm, Michael Collins Associates, in 1985. He retired from the Air Force Reserve with the rank of major general in 1982.","Collins' awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom; the Collier, Harmon and Goddard trophies; the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; the Distinguished Flying Cross and many others. He has received awards from eleven other countries and honorary degrees from six colleges and universities.","Michael Collins died on April 28, 2021."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Michael Collins Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Michael Collins Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Michael Collins Papers, Ms1989-029, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Michael Collins Papers, Ms1989-029, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Michael Collins Papers commenced in July 2003 and was completed in September 2003. Preliminary processing had been performed during the early 1990s. Donations from 2005 and 2007 were processed, arranged, and described in November and December 2014.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Michael Collins Papers commenced in July 2003 and was completed in September 2003. Preliminary processing had been performed during the early 1990s. Donations from 2005 and 2007 were processed, arranged, and described in November and December 2014."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Michael Collins Papers document the life and career of Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), and author.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection comprises correspondence, notes, printed material, photographs, and audio recordings from Collins' Air Force career, training at the U. S. Test Pilot School and Experimental Flight Center, participation in NASA's Gemini and Apollo programs, and tenure at the State Department and NASM. The collection also includes materials associated with Collins' books \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCarrying the Fire\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFlying to the Moon and Other Strange Places\u003c/title\u003e, and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLiftoff!\u003c/title\u003e, as well as various articles and book reviews written by him. Collins' many public appearances are represented here with background materials, speech notes, texts, printed material, and photographs. The collection also contains a number of files, largely composed of correspondence, devoted to Collins' involvement with various boards and clubs. In addition, there are small sets of personal correspondence, biographical materials, and an assortment of honors and memorabilia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Michael Collins Papers document the life and career of Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), and author.","The collection comprises correspondence, notes, printed material, photographs, and audio recordings from Collins' Air Force career, training at the U. S. Test Pilot School and Experimental Flight Center, participation in NASA's Gemini and Apollo programs, and tenure at the State Department and NASM. The collection also includes materials associated with Collins' books Carrying the Fire, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places, and Liftoff!, as well as various articles and book reviews written by him. Collins' many public appearances are represented here with background materials, speech notes, texts, printed material, and photographs. The collection also contains a number of files, largely composed of correspondence, devoted to Collins' involvement with various boards and clubs. In addition, there are small sets of personal correspondence, biographical materials, and an assortment of honors and memorabilia."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following items were transferred to the Rare Book Collection:\n\u003clist\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAeronautics: The American Magazine of Aerial Locomotion,\u003c/title\u003e 8(5), November 1910.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\nHallion, Richard P., \"Girding for War: Perspectives on Research, Development, Acquisition, and the Decision-making Environment of the 1980's,\" Edwards Air Force Base, CA: History Office, Air Force Flight Test Center, 1985.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eJourney to Halley's Comet\u003c/title\u003e, [S.l.]: NASA, 1980.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eNational Security Strategy of the United States\u003c/title\u003e, Washington, D.C.: The White House, 1988.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eOrigin and Evolution of Life--Implications for the Planets: a Scientific Strategy for the 1980's\u003c/title\u003e, Washington, D. C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1981.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eOur First Quarter Century of Achievement... Just the Beginning\u003c/title\u003e [NASA 25th anniversary press kit], [S.l.]: NASA, 1983.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eReport to the President : Actions to Implement the Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident\u003c/title\u003e, [Washington, D.C.: U.S.G.P.O., 1986].\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTo the Moon : the Story in Sound\u003c/title\u003e [sound recordings with accompanying book], New York: Time Life Records, 1969.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eEthics of Change: Humanistic Values versus Technological Imperatives\u003c/title\u003e, New Smyrna Beach, FL: Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1988.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eViking Orbiter Views of Mars\u003c/title\u003e, Washington, DC: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1980.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The following items were transferred to the Rare Book Collection:\n\n\nAeronautics: The American Magazine of Aerial Locomotion, 8(5), November 1910.\n\n\nHallion, Richard P., \"Girding for War: Perspectives on Research, Development, Acquisition, and the Decision-making Environment of the 1980's,\" Edwards Air Force Base, CA: History Office, Air Force Flight Test Center, 1985.\n\n\nJourney to Halley's Comet, [S.l.]: NASA, 1980.\n\n\nNational Security Strategy of the United States, Washington, D.C.: The White House, 1988.\n\n\nOrigin and Evolution of Life--Implications for the Planets: a Scientific Strategy for the 1980's, Washington, D. C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1981.\n\n\nOur First Quarter Century of Achievement... Just the Beginning [NASA 25th anniversary press kit], [S.l.]: NASA, 1983.\n\n\nReport to the President : Actions to Implement the Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, [Washington, D.C.: U.S.G.P.O., 1986].\n\n\nTo the Moon : the Story in Sound [sound recordings with accompanying book], New York: Time Life Records, 1969.\n\n\nEthics of Change: Humanistic Values versus Technological Imperatives, New Smyrna Beach, FL: Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1988.\n\n\nViking Orbiter Views of Mars, Washington, DC: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1980."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMuch of this collection is copyrighted. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Much of this collection is copyrighted. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_b4ac0061c543215b078a4261c66f8cdd\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection includes the papers of Michael Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum and author, dating from 1907-2004. Materials include reports, instruction manuals, personal notes, printed materials, audio recordings, photographs, awards and memorabilia associated with Collins' Air Force, NASA, State Department and NASM careers. There are also papers and research relating to Collins' writings; materials from public speaking engagements and board and club memberships; and small sets of personal correspondence and biographical material.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The collection includes the papers of Michael Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum and author, dating from 1907-2004. Materials include reports, instruction manuals, personal notes, printed materials, audio recordings, photographs, awards and memorabilia associated with Collins' Air Force, NASA, State Department and NASM careers. There are also papers and research relating to Collins' writings; materials from public speaking engagements and board and club memberships; and small sets of personal correspondence and biographical material."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Project Apollo (U.S.)","Project Gemini (U.S.)"],"names_coll_ssim":["United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Project Apollo (U.S.)","Project Gemini (U.S.)","Collins, Michael, 1930-2021"],"persname_ssim":["Collins, Michael, 1930-2021"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Project Apollo (U.S.)","Project Gemini (U.S.)","Collins, Michael, 1930-2021"],"language_ssim":["Most of this collection is in English."],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":629,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:29:47.882Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1656","ead_ssi":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1656","_root_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1656","_nest_parent_":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1656","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_1656.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Collins, Michael, Papers","title_ssm":["Michael Collins Papers"],"title_tesim":["Michael Collins Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1907-2004"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1907-2004"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1907/2004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Michael Collins Papers, 1907/2004"],"text":["Michael Collins Papers, 1907/2004","Ms.1989.029","Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)","Astronauts","Science and Technology","Authors","Businesspeople","The collection is open to research.","Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online.","The collection is arranged in the following series:","Series I. Air Force, 1953-1973. This series contains Collins' individual flight record (including his later NASA flights) and an accident report for the crash of an F-86 fighter jet piloted by him. The series also consists of a number of test pilot manuals from the USAF Flight Test Center and reports written by Collins while at the Experimental Flight Test Pilot School. Additionally, there are a few items relating to survival training and an Aerospace Research Pilot School publication with sketches and photographs of ARPS and Experimental Test Pilot School graduates. The series is arranged chronologically.","Series II. Project Gemini, 1962-1967. The Project Gemini Series contains a number of preparatory materials which has instruction manuals, class materials and Collins' own notes on astronomy, geology and the Gemini spacecraft. From the Gemini 10 flight, the series consists of an audio recording of the liftoff, transcripts of voice communications and mission commentaries, and photographs. The series also comprises official post-mission reports and two Gemini 10 newsclipping scrapbooks. The series is arranged in subseries by material type.","Series III. Project Apollo, 1966-2004. Like the Project Gemini series, this series contains Collins' preparatory notes. Additionally, it includes transcripts of mission commentary, flight communications, and press feeds during post-flight recovery of the command module. The series has a number of audio recordings, which range from a pre-flight press conference to television coverage of the mission, and post-mission public appearances by the crew. Print media coverage of the mission may be found in a set of NASA Current News publications and other printed materials. The series consists of approximately 200 mission photographs and a number of commemorative materials. (Among the more unusual items are a collection of songs and poems inspired by Apollo 11 and a book of congratulatory letters from French civic leaders.) Post-mission materials comprises files devoted to five- and ten-year anniversary observances of the moon landing and audio recordings relating to the Apollo program and missions 12 and 13. The series is arranged in subseries by material type. Within subseries, materials are in chronological order wherever possible.","Series IV. Assistant Secretary of State, 1969-1971. Collins' brief career with the U. S. State Department is chronicled here through notes, correspondence (including letters from President Nixon), audio recordings and printed materials. The series is arranged by item format, then chronologically.","Series V. National Air and Space Museum, 1971-1979. This series comprises materials relating to Collins' directorship of NASM - particularly to the museum's design, groundbreaking and opening. The collection also consists of newsclippings devoted to museum exhibits and Collins as director. Audio recordings of events commemorating Collins' farewell complete the series. Arranged by form of item, then chronologically.","Series VI. Boards and Clubs, 1973-1989. This series, largely devoted to the many advisory and editorial boards on which Collins served throughout the 1970s and 1980s, includes correspondence, notes, printed materials and photographs. There are a few folders on clubs to which Collins belonged. The series is arranged alphabetically by organization name.","Series VII. Writings, 1908-2004. This series comprises materials relating to the writing and publication of Collins' books Carrying the Fire, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places, and Liftoff! and includes background materials, typescripts, galley proofs, reviews and publicity. (The files for Carrying the Fire also have correspondence with Charles Lindbergh about his foreword to the book.) A number of Collins' articles, book reviews and opinion / editorial pieces are contained here as well. The series is arranged in subseries by publication type (book, magazine article, book review, etc.), then chronologically within each subseries.","Series VIII. Speeches, 1970-1996. Collins' many public addresses throughout the 1970s and 1980s are represented here with background materials, speech texts, printed materials and photographs. The series is arranged chronologically by date of speech.","Series IX. Personal Correspondence, 1963-1973. This small series comprises correspondence which did not fit neatly into those series devoted to specific aspects of Collins' career. It has a number of letters relating to NASA and the Apollo program. (Most noteworthy are letters from \"Buzz\" Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh and Lyndon B. Johnson.) The series is arranged chronologically.","Series X. Biographical Materials, 1966-2003. Like the personal correspondence series, this series was created from materials not associated with any specific aspect of Collins' public career. The series consists of a few printed materials with interviews or biographical sketches of Collins and several photographs. The series is arranged in subsidies by material type.","Series XI. Honors and Memorabilia, 1961-1989. This series contains awards honoring Collins and his work the form of certificates, medals, and plaques from the United States, individual states, foreign countries, military organizations, and private corporations. The series also has just a few items of memorabilia, among which are a piece of fabric from the Kitty Hawk \"Wright Flyer,\" Collins' pilot clipboard, a Gemini sunscreen plate, a short film of Collins family scenes and commemorative items from NASA's Apollo and Voyager missions. The series is arranged in subsidies by material type. Within subseries, materials are in chronological order wherever possible.","Pilot, astronaut, U.S. assistant secretary of state, National Air and Space Museum director, and author, Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy, on October 31, 1930. He graduated from Saint Albans School in Washington, D.C., before attending the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), where he obtained a bachelor of science degree in 1952.","Collins received an Air Force commission and, after pilot training, was assigned to Nellis Air Base for advanced training on the F-86 Sabrejet. Upon completion of training, he was assigned to the 21st Fighter- Bomber Wing, stationed in Victorville, California and, later, France. In 1961, Collins completed test pilot school and was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base, where he tested experimental fighter jets. (In the meantime, he had married Patricia Finnegan; the couple would have three children: Kathleen, Ann and Michael.)","Interested in NASA's manned space program, Collins enrolled in the newly established Aerospace Pilot School in 1963. In October of that year, he was among the third group of astronauts selected by NASA. Collins served as a member of the backup crew for the Gemini 7 mission and as pilot of NASA's Gemini 10 mission (launched July 18, 1966) with commander John Young. Among the mission's noteworthy accomplishments were the establishment of a new orbital altitude record, a rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle, and two spacewalks conducted by Collins.","Due to the rotational basis on which astronauts were assigned to Apollo missions, Collins was originally scheduled to be a member of the Apollo 8 flight crew. His need for back surgery, however, forced his re- assignment to a later mission. The postponement placed Collins on the crew of Apollo 11 (launched July 16, 1969), the first manned mission to land on the lunar surface. As the mission's command module pilot, Collins orbited the moon while commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin E. \"Buzz\" Aldrin descended to its surface.","In January 1970, Collins resigned from NASA and served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs before becoming the first director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in April 1971; he was promoted to undersecretary of the Smithsonian in April 1978. During this time, Collins began writing about his experiences in the space program, leading to his book Carrying the Fire(and a subsequent children's adaptation, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places). His expertise and talents led to numerous requests for speaking engagements, articles and book reviews. In 1988, he published Liftoff!,a book on the history and future of space exploration; his Mission to Marswas published in 1990.","Collins served on the boards of numerous organizations and corporations throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He became vice-president of field operations for the Vought Corporation in 1980, then resigned to head his own consulting firm, Michael Collins Associates, in 1985. He retired from the Air Force Reserve with the rank of major general in 1982.","Collins' awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom; the Collier, Harmon and Goddard trophies; the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; the Distinguished Flying Cross and many others. He has received awards from eleven other countries and honorary degrees from six colleges and universities.","Michael Collins died on April 28, 2021.","The guide to the Michael Collins Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Michael Collins Papers commenced in July 2003 and was completed in September 2003. Preliminary processing had been performed during the early 1990s. Donations from 2005 and 2007 were processed, arranged, and described in November and December 2014.","The Michael Collins Papers document the life and career of Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), and author.","The collection comprises correspondence, notes, printed material, photographs, and audio recordings from Collins' Air Force career, training at the U. S. Test Pilot School and Experimental Flight Center, participation in NASA's Gemini and Apollo programs, and tenure at the State Department and NASM. The collection also includes materials associated with Collins' books Carrying the Fire, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places, and Liftoff!, as well as various articles and book reviews written by him. Collins' many public appearances are represented here with background materials, speech notes, texts, printed material, and photographs. The collection also contains a number of files, largely composed of correspondence, devoted to Collins' involvement with various boards and clubs. In addition, there are small sets of personal correspondence, biographical materials, and an assortment of honors and memorabilia.","The following items were transferred to the Rare Book Collection:\n\n\nAeronautics: The American Magazine of Aerial Locomotion, 8(5), November 1910.\n\n\nHallion, Richard P., \"Girding for War: Perspectives on Research, Development, Acquisition, and the Decision-making Environment of the 1980's,\" Edwards Air Force Base, CA: History Office, Air Force Flight Test Center, 1985.\n\n\nJourney to Halley's Comet, [S.l.]: NASA, 1980.\n\n\nNational Security Strategy of the United States, Washington, D.C.: The White House, 1988.\n\n\nOrigin and Evolution of Life--Implications for the Planets: a Scientific Strategy for the 1980's, Washington, D. C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1981.\n\n\nOur First Quarter Century of Achievement... Just the Beginning [NASA 25th anniversary press kit], [S.l.]: NASA, 1983.\n\n\nReport to the President : Actions to Implement the Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, [Washington, D.C.: U.S.G.P.O., 1986].\n\n\nTo the Moon : the Story in Sound [sound recordings with accompanying book], New York: Time Life Records, 1969.\n\n\nEthics of Change: Humanistic Values versus Technological Imperatives, New Smyrna Beach, FL: Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1988.\n\n\nViking Orbiter Views of Mars, Washington, DC: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1980.","Much of this collection is copyrighted. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The collection includes the papers of Michael Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum and author, dating from 1907-2004. Materials include reports, instruction manuals, personal notes, printed materials, audio recordings, photographs, awards and memorabilia associated with Collins' Air Force, NASA, State Department and NASM careers. There are also papers and research relating to Collins' writings; materials from public speaking engagements and board and club memberships; and small sets of personal correspondence and biographical material.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Project Apollo (U.S.)","Project Gemini (U.S.)","Collins, Michael, 1930-2021","Most of this collection is in English."],"collection_title_tesim":["Michael Collins Papers, 1907/2004"],"collection_ssim":["Michael Collins Papers, 1907/2004"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Ms.1989.029"],"unitid_tesim":["Ms.1989.029"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"creator_ssm":["Collins, Michael, 1930-2021"],"creator_ssim":["Collins, Michael, 1930-2021"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Collins, Michael, 1930-2021"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Project Apollo (U.S.)","Project Gemini (U.S.)"],"creators_ssim":["Collins, Michael, 1930-2021","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Project Apollo (U.S.)","Project Gemini (U.S.)"],"access_terms_ssm":["Much of this collection is copyrighted. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Michael Collins Papers were donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 1989. Additional donations were acquired in 2005 and 2007."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)","Astronauts","Science and Technology","Authors","Businesspeople"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)","Astronauts","Science and Technology","Authors","Businesspeople"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["24.9 Cubic Feet 39 boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 1 object"],"extent_tesim":["24.9 Cubic Feet 39 boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 1 object"],"date_range_isim":[1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is open to research.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The collection is open to research."],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSome of this collection has been digitized and is \u003ca show=\"new\" href=\"http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms1989-029\"\u003eavailable online\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Existence and Location of Copies"],"altformavail_tesim":["Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is arranged in the following series:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries I. Air Force, 1953-1973.\u003c/b\u003e This series contains Collins' individual flight record (including his later NASA flights) and an accident report for the crash of an F-86 fighter jet piloted by him. The series also consists of a number of test pilot manuals from the USAF Flight Test Center and reports written by Collins while at the Experimental Flight Test Pilot School. Additionally, there are a few items relating to survival training and an Aerospace Research Pilot School publication with sketches and photographs of ARPS and Experimental Test Pilot School graduates. The series is arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries II. Project Gemini, 1962-1967.\u003c/b\u003e The Project Gemini Series contains a number of preparatory materials which has instruction manuals, class materials and Collins' own notes on astronomy, geology and the Gemini spacecraft. From the Gemini 10 flight, the series consists of an audio recording of the liftoff, transcripts of voice communications and mission commentaries, and photographs. The series also comprises official post-mission reports and two Gemini 10 newsclipping scrapbooks. The series is arranged in subseries by material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries III. Project Apollo, 1966-2004.\u003c/b\u003e Like the Project Gemini series, this series contains Collins' preparatory notes. Additionally, it includes transcripts of mission commentary, flight communications, and press feeds during post-flight recovery of the command module. The series has a number of audio recordings, which range from a pre-flight press conference to television coverage of the mission, and post-mission public appearances by the crew. Print media coverage of the mission may be found in a set of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eNASA Current News\u003c/title\u003e publications and other printed materials. The series consists of approximately 200 mission photographs and a number of commemorative materials. (Among the more unusual items are a collection of songs and poems inspired by Apollo 11 and a book of congratulatory letters from French civic leaders.) Post-mission materials comprises files devoted to five- and ten-year anniversary observances of the moon landing and audio recordings relating to the Apollo program and missions 12 and 13. The series is arranged in subseries by material type. Within subseries, materials are in chronological order wherever possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries IV. Assistant Secretary of State, 1969-1971.\u003c/b\u003e Collins' brief career with the U. S. State Department is chronicled here through notes, correspondence (including letters from President Nixon), audio recordings and printed materials. The series is arranged by item format, then chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries V. National Air and Space Museum, 1971-1979.\u003c/b\u003e This series comprises materials relating to Collins' directorship of NASM - particularly to the museum's design, groundbreaking and opening. The collection also consists of newsclippings devoted to museum exhibits and Collins as director. Audio recordings of events commemorating Collins' farewell complete the series. Arranged by form of item, then chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries VI. Boards and Clubs, 1973-1989.\u003c/b\u003e This series, largely devoted to the many advisory and editorial boards on which Collins served throughout the 1970s and 1980s, includes correspondence, notes, printed materials and photographs. There are a few folders on clubs to which Collins belonged. The series is arranged alphabetically by organization name.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries VII. Writings, 1908-2004.\u003c/b\u003e This series comprises materials relating to the writing and publication of Collins' books \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCarrying the Fire\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFlying to the Moon and Other Strange Places\u003c/title\u003e, and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLiftoff!\u003c/title\u003e and includes background materials, typescripts, galley proofs, reviews and publicity. (The files for \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCarrying the Fire\u003c/title\u003e also have correspondence with Charles Lindbergh about his foreword to the book.) A number of Collins' articles, book reviews and opinion / editorial pieces are contained here as well. The series is arranged in subseries by publication type (book, magazine article, book review, etc.), then chronologically within each subseries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries VIII. Speeches, 1970-1996.\u003c/b\u003e Collins' many public addresses throughout the 1970s and 1980s are represented here with background materials, speech texts, printed materials and photographs. The series is arranged chronologically by date of speech.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries IX. Personal Correspondence, 1963-1973.\u003c/b\u003e This small series comprises correspondence which did not fit neatly into those series devoted to specific aspects of Collins' career. It has a number of letters relating to NASA and the Apollo program. (Most noteworthy are letters from \"Buzz\" Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh and Lyndon B. Johnson.) The series is arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries X. Biographical Materials, 1966-2003.\u003c/b\u003e Like the personal correspondence series, this series was created from materials not associated with any specific aspect of Collins' public career. The series consists of a few printed materials with interviews or biographical sketches of Collins and several photographs. The series is arranged in subsidies by material type.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries XI. Honors and Memorabilia, 1961-1989.\u003c/b\u003e This series contains awards honoring Collins and his work the form of certificates, medals, and plaques from the United States, individual states, foreign countries, military organizations, and private corporations. The series also has just a few items of memorabilia, among which are a piece of fabric from the Kitty Hawk \"Wright Flyer,\" Collins' pilot clipboard, a Gemini sunscreen plate, a short film of Collins family scenes and commemorative items from NASA's Apollo and Voyager missions. The series is arranged in subsidies by material type. Within subseries, materials are in chronological order wherever possible.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged in the following series:","Series I. Air Force, 1953-1973. This series contains Collins' individual flight record (including his later NASA flights) and an accident report for the crash of an F-86 fighter jet piloted by him. The series also consists of a number of test pilot manuals from the USAF Flight Test Center and reports written by Collins while at the Experimental Flight Test Pilot School. Additionally, there are a few items relating to survival training and an Aerospace Research Pilot School publication with sketches and photographs of ARPS and Experimental Test Pilot School graduates. The series is arranged chronologically.","Series II. Project Gemini, 1962-1967. The Project Gemini Series contains a number of preparatory materials which has instruction manuals, class materials and Collins' own notes on astronomy, geology and the Gemini spacecraft. From the Gemini 10 flight, the series consists of an audio recording of the liftoff, transcripts of voice communications and mission commentaries, and photographs. The series also comprises official post-mission reports and two Gemini 10 newsclipping scrapbooks. The series is arranged in subseries by material type.","Series III. Project Apollo, 1966-2004. Like the Project Gemini series, this series contains Collins' preparatory notes. Additionally, it includes transcripts of mission commentary, flight communications, and press feeds during post-flight recovery of the command module. The series has a number of audio recordings, which range from a pre-flight press conference to television coverage of the mission, and post-mission public appearances by the crew. Print media coverage of the mission may be found in a set of NASA Current News publications and other printed materials. The series consists of approximately 200 mission photographs and a number of commemorative materials. (Among the more unusual items are a collection of songs and poems inspired by Apollo 11 and a book of congratulatory letters from French civic leaders.) Post-mission materials comprises files devoted to five- and ten-year anniversary observances of the moon landing and audio recordings relating to the Apollo program and missions 12 and 13. The series is arranged in subseries by material type. Within subseries, materials are in chronological order wherever possible.","Series IV. Assistant Secretary of State, 1969-1971. Collins' brief career with the U. S. State Department is chronicled here through notes, correspondence (including letters from President Nixon), audio recordings and printed materials. The series is arranged by item format, then chronologically.","Series V. National Air and Space Museum, 1971-1979. This series comprises materials relating to Collins' directorship of NASM - particularly to the museum's design, groundbreaking and opening. The collection also consists of newsclippings devoted to museum exhibits and Collins as director. Audio recordings of events commemorating Collins' farewell complete the series. Arranged by form of item, then chronologically.","Series VI. Boards and Clubs, 1973-1989. This series, largely devoted to the many advisory and editorial boards on which Collins served throughout the 1970s and 1980s, includes correspondence, notes, printed materials and photographs. There are a few folders on clubs to which Collins belonged. The series is arranged alphabetically by organization name.","Series VII. Writings, 1908-2004. This series comprises materials relating to the writing and publication of Collins' books Carrying the Fire, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places, and Liftoff! and includes background materials, typescripts, galley proofs, reviews and publicity. (The files for Carrying the Fire also have correspondence with Charles Lindbergh about his foreword to the book.) A number of Collins' articles, book reviews and opinion / editorial pieces are contained here as well. The series is arranged in subseries by publication type (book, magazine article, book review, etc.), then chronologically within each subseries.","Series VIII. Speeches, 1970-1996. Collins' many public addresses throughout the 1970s and 1980s are represented here with background materials, speech texts, printed materials and photographs. The series is arranged chronologically by date of speech.","Series IX. Personal Correspondence, 1963-1973. This small series comprises correspondence which did not fit neatly into those series devoted to specific aspects of Collins' career. It has a number of letters relating to NASA and the Apollo program. (Most noteworthy are letters from \"Buzz\" Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh and Lyndon B. Johnson.) The series is arranged chronologically.","Series X. Biographical Materials, 1966-2003. Like the personal correspondence series, this series was created from materials not associated with any specific aspect of Collins' public career. The series consists of a few printed materials with interviews or biographical sketches of Collins and several photographs. The series is arranged in subsidies by material type.","Series XI. Honors and Memorabilia, 1961-1989. This series contains awards honoring Collins and his work the form of certificates, medals, and plaques from the United States, individual states, foreign countries, military organizations, and private corporations. The series also has just a few items of memorabilia, among which are a piece of fabric from the Kitty Hawk \"Wright Flyer,\" Collins' pilot clipboard, a Gemini sunscreen plate, a short film of Collins family scenes and commemorative items from NASA's Apollo and Voyager missions. The series is arranged in subsidies by material type. Within subseries, materials are in chronological order wherever possible."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePilot, astronaut, U.S. assistant secretary of state, National Air and Space Museum director, and author, Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy, on October 31, 1930. He graduated from Saint Albans School in Washington, D.C., before attending the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), where he obtained a bachelor of science degree in 1952.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollins received an Air Force commission and, after pilot training, was assigned to Nellis Air Base for advanced training on the F-86 Sabrejet. Upon completion of training, he was assigned to the 21st Fighter- Bomber Wing, stationed in Victorville, California and, later, France. In 1961, Collins completed test pilot school and was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base, where he tested experimental fighter jets. (In the meantime, he had married Patricia Finnegan; the couple would have three children: Kathleen, Ann and Michael.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInterested in NASA's manned space program, Collins enrolled in the newly established Aerospace Pilot School in 1963. In October of that year, he was among the third group of astronauts selected by NASA. Collins served as a member of the backup crew for the Gemini 7 mission and as pilot of NASA's Gemini 10 mission (launched July 18, 1966) with commander John Young. Among the mission's noteworthy accomplishments were the establishment of a new orbital altitude record, a rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle, and two spacewalks conducted by Collins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDue to the rotational basis on which astronauts were assigned to Apollo missions, Collins was originally scheduled to be a member of the Apollo 8 flight crew. His need for back surgery, however, forced his re- assignment to a later mission. The postponement placed Collins on the crew of Apollo 11 (launched July 16, 1969), the first manned mission to land on the lunar surface. As the mission's command module pilot, Collins orbited the moon while commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin E. \"Buzz\" Aldrin descended to its surface.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn January 1970, Collins resigned from NASA and served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs before becoming the first director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in April 1971; he was promoted to undersecretary of the Smithsonian in April 1978. During this time, Collins began writing about his experiences in the space program, leading to his book \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCarrying the Fire\u003c/title\u003e(and a subsequent children's adaptation, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFlying to the Moon and Other Strange Places\u003c/title\u003e). His expertise and talents led to numerous requests for speaking engagements, articles and book reviews. In 1988, he published \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLiftoff!,\u003c/title\u003ea book on the history and future of space exploration; his \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMission to Mars\u003c/title\u003ewas published in 1990.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollins served on the boards of numerous organizations and corporations throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He became vice-president of field operations for the Vought Corporation in 1980, then resigned to head his own consulting firm, Michael Collins Associates, in 1985. He retired from the Air Force Reserve with the rank of major general in 1982.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCollins' awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom; the Collier, Harmon and Goddard trophies; the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; the Distinguished Flying Cross and many others. He has received awards from eleven other countries and honorary degrees from six colleges and universities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMichael Collins died on April 28, 2021.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Pilot, astronaut, U.S. assistant secretary of state, National Air and Space Museum director, and author, Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy, on October 31, 1930. He graduated from Saint Albans School in Washington, D.C., before attending the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), where he obtained a bachelor of science degree in 1952.","Collins received an Air Force commission and, after pilot training, was assigned to Nellis Air Base for advanced training on the F-86 Sabrejet. Upon completion of training, he was assigned to the 21st Fighter- Bomber Wing, stationed in Victorville, California and, later, France. In 1961, Collins completed test pilot school and was assigned to Edwards Air Force Base, where he tested experimental fighter jets. (In the meantime, he had married Patricia Finnegan; the couple would have three children: Kathleen, Ann and Michael.)","Interested in NASA's manned space program, Collins enrolled in the newly established Aerospace Pilot School in 1963. In October of that year, he was among the third group of astronauts selected by NASA. Collins served as a member of the backup crew for the Gemini 7 mission and as pilot of NASA's Gemini 10 mission (launched July 18, 1966) with commander John Young. Among the mission's noteworthy accomplishments were the establishment of a new orbital altitude record, a rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle, and two spacewalks conducted by Collins.","Due to the rotational basis on which astronauts were assigned to Apollo missions, Collins was originally scheduled to be a member of the Apollo 8 flight crew. His need for back surgery, however, forced his re- assignment to a later mission. The postponement placed Collins on the crew of Apollo 11 (launched July 16, 1969), the first manned mission to land on the lunar surface. As the mission's command module pilot, Collins orbited the moon while commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin E. \"Buzz\" Aldrin descended to its surface.","In January 1970, Collins resigned from NASA and served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs before becoming the first director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in April 1971; he was promoted to undersecretary of the Smithsonian in April 1978. During this time, Collins began writing about his experiences in the space program, leading to his book Carrying the Fire(and a subsequent children's adaptation, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places). His expertise and talents led to numerous requests for speaking engagements, articles and book reviews. In 1988, he published Liftoff!,a book on the history and future of space exploration; his Mission to Marswas published in 1990.","Collins served on the boards of numerous organizations and corporations throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He became vice-president of field operations for the Vought Corporation in 1980, then resigned to head his own consulting firm, Michael Collins Associates, in 1985. He retired from the Air Force Reserve with the rank of major general in 1982.","Collins' awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom; the Collier, Harmon and Goddard trophies; the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster; the Distinguished Flying Cross and many others. He has received awards from eleven other countries and honorary degrees from six colleges and universities.","Michael Collins died on April 28, 2021."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Michael Collins Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Michael Collins Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Michael Collins Papers, Ms1989-029, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Michael Collins Papers, Ms1989-029, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Michael Collins Papers commenced in July 2003 and was completed in September 2003. Preliminary processing had been performed during the early 1990s. Donations from 2005 and 2007 were processed, arranged, and described in November and December 2014.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Michael Collins Papers commenced in July 2003 and was completed in September 2003. Preliminary processing had been performed during the early 1990s. Donations from 2005 and 2007 were processed, arranged, and described in November and December 2014."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Michael Collins Papers document the life and career of Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), and author.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection comprises correspondence, notes, printed material, photographs, and audio recordings from Collins' Air Force career, training at the U. S. Test Pilot School and Experimental Flight Center, participation in NASA's Gemini and Apollo programs, and tenure at the State Department and NASM. The collection also includes materials associated with Collins' books \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCarrying the Fire\u003c/title\u003e, \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFlying to the Moon and Other Strange Places\u003c/title\u003e, and \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLiftoff!\u003c/title\u003e, as well as various articles and book reviews written by him. Collins' many public appearances are represented here with background materials, speech notes, texts, printed material, and photographs. The collection also contains a number of files, largely composed of correspondence, devoted to Collins' involvement with various boards and clubs. In addition, there are small sets of personal correspondence, biographical materials, and an assortment of honors and memorabilia.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Michael Collins Papers document the life and career of Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), and author.","The collection comprises correspondence, notes, printed material, photographs, and audio recordings from Collins' Air Force career, training at the U. S. Test Pilot School and Experimental Flight Center, participation in NASA's Gemini and Apollo programs, and tenure at the State Department and NASM. The collection also includes materials associated with Collins' books Carrying the Fire, Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places, and Liftoff!, as well as various articles and book reviews written by him. Collins' many public appearances are represented here with background materials, speech notes, texts, printed material, and photographs. The collection also contains a number of files, largely composed of correspondence, devoted to Collins' involvement with various boards and clubs. In addition, there are small sets of personal correspondence, biographical materials, and an assortment of honors and memorabilia."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following items were transferred to the Rare Book Collection:\n\u003clist\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAeronautics: The American Magazine of Aerial Locomotion,\u003c/title\u003e 8(5), November 1910.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\nHallion, Richard P., \"Girding for War: Perspectives on Research, Development, Acquisition, and the Decision-making Environment of the 1980's,\" Edwards Air Force Base, CA: History Office, Air Force Flight Test Center, 1985.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eJourney to Halley's Comet\u003c/title\u003e, [S.l.]: NASA, 1980.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eNational Security Strategy of the United States\u003c/title\u003e, Washington, D.C.: The White House, 1988.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eOrigin and Evolution of Life--Implications for the Planets: a Scientific Strategy for the 1980's\u003c/title\u003e, Washington, D. C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1981.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eOur First Quarter Century of Achievement... Just the Beginning\u003c/title\u003e [NASA 25th anniversary press kit], [S.l.]: NASA, 1983.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eReport to the President : Actions to Implement the Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident\u003c/title\u003e, [Washington, D.C.: U.S.G.P.O., 1986].\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTo the Moon : the Story in Sound\u003c/title\u003e [sound recordings with accompanying book], New York: Time Life Records, 1969.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eEthics of Change: Humanistic Values versus Technological Imperatives\u003c/title\u003e, New Smyrna Beach, FL: Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1988.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003e\n\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eViking Orbiter Views of Mars\u003c/title\u003e, Washington, DC: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1980.\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\u003c/p\u003e  "],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The following items were transferred to the Rare Book Collection:\n\n\nAeronautics: The American Magazine of Aerial Locomotion, 8(5), November 1910.\n\n\nHallion, Richard P., \"Girding for War: Perspectives on Research, Development, Acquisition, and the Decision-making Environment of the 1980's,\" Edwards Air Force Base, CA: History Office, Air Force Flight Test Center, 1985.\n\n\nJourney to Halley's Comet, [S.l.]: NASA, 1980.\n\n\nNational Security Strategy of the United States, Washington, D.C.: The White House, 1988.\n\n\nOrigin and Evolution of Life--Implications for the Planets: a Scientific Strategy for the 1980's, Washington, D. C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1981.\n\n\nOur First Quarter Century of Achievement... Just the Beginning [NASA 25th anniversary press kit], [S.l.]: NASA, 1983.\n\n\nReport to the President : Actions to Implement the Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, [Washington, D.C.: U.S.G.P.O., 1986].\n\n\nTo the Moon : the Story in Sound [sound recordings with accompanying book], New York: Time Life Records, 1969.\n\n\nEthics of Change: Humanistic Values versus Technological Imperatives, New Smyrna Beach, FL: Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1988.\n\n\nViking Orbiter Views of Mars, Washington, DC: NASA Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1980."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMuch of this collection is copyrighted. Copyright restrictions may apply. 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Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_b4ac0061c543215b078a4261c66f8cdd\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe collection includes the papers of Michael Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum and author, dating from 1907-2004. Materials include reports, instruction manuals, personal notes, printed materials, audio recordings, photographs, awards and memorabilia associated with Collins' Air Force, NASA, State Department and NASM careers. There are also papers and research relating to Collins' writings; materials from public speaking engagements and board and club memberships; and small sets of personal correspondence and biographical material.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The collection includes the papers of Michael Collins, pilot, astronaut, assistant secretary of state, director of the National Air and Space Museum and author, dating from 1907-2004. Materials include reports, instruction manuals, personal notes, printed materials, audio recordings, photographs, awards and memorabilia associated with Collins' Air Force, NASA, State Department and NASM careers. There are also papers and research relating to Collins' writings; materials from public speaking engagements and board and club memberships; and small sets of personal correspondence and biographical material."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Project Apollo (U.S.)","Project Gemini (U.S.)"],"names_coll_ssim":["United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Project Apollo (U.S.)","Project Gemini (U.S.)","Collins, Michael, 1930-2021"],"persname_ssim":["Collins, Michael, 1930-2021"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration","Project Apollo (U.S.)","Project Gemini (U.S.)","Collins, Michael, 1930-2021"],"language_ssim":["Most of this collection is in English."],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":629,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-08-14T22:29:47.882Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viblbv_repositories_2_resources_1656"}},{"id":"viblbv_repositories_2_resources_2621","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Paul R. 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Hill Collection, 1936/1996","Ms.2010.068","Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)","Science and Technology","Aeronautical engineers","The collection is open for research.","The collection is arranged in six series. Where possible, collection materials have been kept in original groupings. Other items, such as publications and clippings, have been grouped and arranged chronologically. Undated material is arranged alphabetically, where possible.","Series I: Paul R. Hill Materials - This series contains personal materials of Paul R. Hill, including correspondence, work evaluations, and his talks and lecture notes. It also contains papers written by Paul R. Hill. \n     \nSeries II: Subject Files - The files in this series are in original groupings by Hill and cntain papers, notes, correspondence.","Series III: NASA Reports and Publications - This series contains official publications from NASA, memoranda, and meeting agendas from Hill's time at NACA/NASA.","Series IV: Other Papers and Publications - These files contain other publications that were part of the collection. Some of these publications were copies from other sources. The series is arranged chronologically.","Series V: Images - This series contains slides, slide negatives, drawings, photographs, and photograph negatives. \n  \nSeries VI: Clippings - This series contains clippings from various sources, separated by magazine or newspaper sources.","Paul R. Hill (1909-1990) was a renowned NASA engineer and UFO enthusiast. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 1936. After teaching at the Polytechnic College of Engineering in Oakland, California, Hill began his career with the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) in 1939, which became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958. He worked at NASA until 1970, where he published numerous scientific and technical reports.","Hill was also an adamant UFO enthusiast. Based on his own personal sightings in 1952, Mr. Hill tried to use his scientific and engineering knowledge to understand how UFOs worked and eventually built his own flying platform. His book on the topic, Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis, was published post-humously in 1995.","Mr. Hill was married to Frances Hoback Hill (d. 1999) and had one daughter, Julie M. Hill. Hill died in 1990 at the age of 81.","The guide to the Paul R. Hill Collection by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Paul R. Hill Collection commenced in 2010 and was completed in January 2011. Additional description was completed in August 2021.","The Paul R. Hill Collection contains material relating to the NACA/NASA/Langely career of Paul R. Hill from 1939-1970. Materials include books, papers, newspapers, lantern slides, NASA publications and memos, overhead sheets, and notes from presentations and talks.","Many photographs portray Hill's design for a personal flight device. Other drawings reflect planetary orbits or space station models. Presentation notes accompany a few slide folders.","The collection also consists of various publications and papers written by Hill and other authors. Many of these publications are declassified official NASA reports, and others are NASA publications from award ceremonies and department memorandums. Wherever possible, bibliographies at the folder-level are included in the \"Contents List\" below. Other publications include drafts of papers reviewed by Hill. A number of books were removed from the collection to be catalogued (see \"Separated Materials\" below).","Also included in this collection are personal papers of Paul R. Hill. Some of these items include his 1936 voter registration, work evaluations, and correspondence regarding his personal projects. Newspaper and magazine clippings kept by Hill are also included in the collection.","The following items have been removed and cataloged for the Special Collections Rare Book Collection:","A Class of Unified Explicit Methods for Steering Throttleable and Fixed-Thrust Rockets, 1964\nA Course in Electrical Engineering/Vol II: Alternating Currents, 1934\nA New Dimension: Wallops Island The First Fifteen Years, 1978\nA Short Table of Integrals, 1956\nA Superposition Principle for a System of Analytic Ordinary Differential Equations, 1963\nA Trajectory Optimization Technique Based on the Theory of Second Variation, 1964\nAccounting Principles, 1935\nAnalytical Mechanics for Engineers, 1933\nAir-Age Education Series: Science of Pre-Flight Aeronautics, 1944\nAirplane Dynamics, 1951\nAirplane Structures, Volume I, 1938\nAstronautics Magazine, September 1962 \nBacteriology Illustrated, 1965\nBacteriology: Principles and Practice, 1962\nComputation Curves for Compressible Fluid Problems, 1949\nDesign of Machine Elements, 1935\nDevelopment of Large Solid Propellant Boosters, 1962\nElementary Pile Theory, 1950\nElements of Chemistry, Volume II, 1853\nElements of the Differential and integral Calculus, 1929\nElements of Heat Power Engineering, 1915\nElements of Heat-Power Engineering, Part I: Thermodynamics and Prime Movers, 1926\nElements of Heat-Power Engineering, Part II: Steam-Generating Apparatus and Prime Movers, Fuels, Combustion, and Heat Transmission, 1933\nEngineering Applications of Fluid Mechanics, 1947\nExplosions and Combustion Processes in Gases, 1946\nGas Sterilants (Linde), n.d.\nGeometry of Engineering Drawing, 1926\nHistory of Wallops Station Part III Volume 1, 1971\nHistory of Wallops Station Part III Volume 2, 1971\nHydraulics: A Text on Practical Fluid Mechanics, 1937\nInternal-Combustion Engines, 1933\nKinetics of Machines, 1928\nLunar Flying Unit Status Review, 1968\nMagnethydrodynamics, 1957\nMathematical Theory of Rocket Flight, 1947\nMechanical Engineers' Handbook, 1941\nMillipore Bibliography, 1968\nModern Operational Mathematics in Engineering, 1944\nNACA Reunion II, 1982\nNASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968: A Historical Summary, 1971\nOn The Two Point Boundary Value Problem, with Application to Celestial Mechanics, 1964\nPocket companion: information and tables for engineers and designers and other data pertaining to structural steel, 1934\nPractical Exporting, 1949\nPrinciples and Practices of Electrical Engineering, 1933\nProgressive Plane Geometry, 1935\nResistance of Materials, 1925\nReusable Orbital Transport, 1965\nSampling Microbiological Aerosols, 1959\nScientific Results of the Viking Project, 1977\nSpaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center from Sputnik to Apollo, 1995\nSteam, Air, and Gas Power, 1933 \nSterilization with Ethylene Oxide Gas Mixtures, 1966\nThe Internal Combustion Engine, 1938\nTechnical Aerodynamics, 1935\nTechniques for Microbiological Analysis, 1967\nTheory of Modern Steel Structures, Volume I: Statically Determinate Structures, 1936\nThreshhold Limit Values for 1967, 1967\nTreatise on Hydraulics, 1934\nWinds of Change: Expanding the Frontiers of Flight, 1992","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","The Paul R. Hill Collection contains material relating to the NASA career of Paul R. Hill. Materials include books, papers, newspapers, lantern slides, NASA publications and memos, overhead sheets, and notes from presentations and talks.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Paul R. Hill Collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 2010 by Julie M. 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Many of these publications are declassified official NASA reports, and others are NASA publications from award ceremonies and department memorandums. Wherever possible, bibliographies at the folder-level are included in the \"Contents List\" below. Other publications include drafts of papers reviewed by Hill. A number of books were removed from the collection to be catalogued (see \"Separated Materials\" below).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso included in this collection are personal papers of Paul R. Hill. Some of these items include his 1936 voter registration, work evaluations, and correspondence regarding his personal projects. Newspaper and magazine clippings kept by Hill are also included in the collection. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Paul R. Hill Collection contains material relating to the NACA/NASA/Langely career of Paul R. Hill from 1939-1970. Materials include books, papers, newspapers, lantern slides, NASA publications and memos, overhead sheets, and notes from presentations and talks.","Many photographs portray Hill's design for a personal flight device. Other drawings reflect planetary orbits or space station models. Presentation notes accompany a few slide folders.","The collection also consists of various publications and papers written by Hill and other authors. Many of these publications are declassified official NASA reports, and others are NASA publications from award ceremonies and department memorandums. Wherever possible, bibliographies at the folder-level are included in the \"Contents List\" below. Other publications include drafts of papers reviewed by Hill. A number of books were removed from the collection to be catalogued (see \"Separated Materials\" below).","Also included in this collection are personal papers of Paul R. Hill. Some of these items include his 1936 voter registration, work evaluations, and correspondence regarding his personal projects. 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Hill Collection"],"title_tesim":["Paul R. Hill Collection"],"unitdate_ssm":["1936-1996"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1936-1996"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1936/1996"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Paul R. Hill Collection, 1936/1996"],"text":["Paul R. Hill Collection, 1936/1996","Ms.2010.068","Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)","Science and Technology","Aeronautical engineers","The collection is open for research.","The collection is arranged in six series. Where possible, collection materials have been kept in original groupings. Other items, such as publications and clippings, have been grouped and arranged chronologically. Undated material is arranged alphabetically, where possible.","Series I: Paul R. Hill Materials - This series contains personal materials of Paul R. Hill, including correspondence, work evaluations, and his talks and lecture notes. It also contains papers written by Paul R. Hill. \n     \nSeries II: Subject Files - The files in this series are in original groupings by Hill and cntain papers, notes, correspondence.","Series III: NASA Reports and Publications - This series contains official publications from NASA, memoranda, and meeting agendas from Hill's time at NACA/NASA.","Series IV: Other Papers and Publications - These files contain other publications that were part of the collection. Some of these publications were copies from other sources. The series is arranged chronologically.","Series V: Images - This series contains slides, slide negatives, drawings, photographs, and photograph negatives. \n  \nSeries VI: Clippings - This series contains clippings from various sources, separated by magazine or newspaper sources.","Paul R. Hill (1909-1990) was a renowned NASA engineer and UFO enthusiast. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 1936. After teaching at the Polytechnic College of Engineering in Oakland, California, Hill began his career with the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) in 1939, which became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958. He worked at NASA until 1970, where he published numerous scientific and technical reports.","Hill was also an adamant UFO enthusiast. Based on his own personal sightings in 1952, Mr. Hill tried to use his scientific and engineering knowledge to understand how UFOs worked and eventually built his own flying platform. His book on the topic, Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis, was published post-humously in 1995.","Mr. Hill was married to Frances Hoback Hill (d. 1999) and had one daughter, Julie M. Hill. Hill died in 1990 at the age of 81.","The guide to the Paul R. Hill Collection by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Paul R. Hill Collection commenced in 2010 and was completed in January 2011. Additional description was completed in August 2021.","The Paul R. Hill Collection contains material relating to the NACA/NASA/Langely career of Paul R. Hill from 1939-1970. Materials include books, papers, newspapers, lantern slides, NASA publications and memos, overhead sheets, and notes from presentations and talks.","Many photographs portray Hill's design for a personal flight device. Other drawings reflect planetary orbits or space station models. Presentation notes accompany a few slide folders.","The collection also consists of various publications and papers written by Hill and other authors. Many of these publications are declassified official NASA reports, and others are NASA publications from award ceremonies and department memorandums. Wherever possible, bibliographies at the folder-level are included in the \"Contents List\" below. Other publications include drafts of papers reviewed by Hill. A number of books were removed from the collection to be catalogued (see \"Separated Materials\" below).","Also included in this collection are personal papers of Paul R. Hill. Some of these items include his 1936 voter registration, work evaluations, and correspondence regarding his personal projects. Newspaper and magazine clippings kept by Hill are also included in the collection.","The following items have been removed and cataloged for the Special Collections Rare Book Collection:","A Class of Unified Explicit Methods for Steering Throttleable and Fixed-Thrust Rockets, 1964\nA Course in Electrical Engineering/Vol II: Alternating Currents, 1934\nA New Dimension: Wallops Island The First Fifteen Years, 1978\nA Short Table of Integrals, 1956\nA Superposition Principle for a System of Analytic Ordinary Differential Equations, 1963\nA Trajectory Optimization Technique Based on the Theory of Second Variation, 1964\nAccounting Principles, 1935\nAnalytical Mechanics for Engineers, 1933\nAir-Age Education Series: Science of Pre-Flight Aeronautics, 1944\nAirplane Dynamics, 1951\nAirplane Structures, Volume I, 1938\nAstronautics Magazine, September 1962 \nBacteriology Illustrated, 1965\nBacteriology: Principles and Practice, 1962\nComputation Curves for Compressible Fluid Problems, 1949\nDesign of Machine Elements, 1935\nDevelopment of Large Solid Propellant Boosters, 1962\nElementary Pile Theory, 1950\nElements of Chemistry, Volume II, 1853\nElements of the Differential and integral Calculus, 1929\nElements of Heat Power Engineering, 1915\nElements of Heat-Power Engineering, Part I: Thermodynamics and Prime Movers, 1926\nElements of Heat-Power Engineering, Part II: Steam-Generating Apparatus and Prime Movers, Fuels, Combustion, and Heat Transmission, 1933\nEngineering Applications of Fluid Mechanics, 1947\nExplosions and Combustion Processes in Gases, 1946\nGas Sterilants (Linde), n.d.\nGeometry of Engineering Drawing, 1926\nHistory of Wallops Station Part III Volume 1, 1971\nHistory of Wallops Station Part III Volume 2, 1971\nHydraulics: A Text on Practical Fluid Mechanics, 1937\nInternal-Combustion Engines, 1933\nKinetics of Machines, 1928\nLunar Flying Unit Status Review, 1968\nMagnethydrodynamics, 1957\nMathematical Theory of Rocket Flight, 1947\nMechanical Engineers' Handbook, 1941\nMillipore Bibliography, 1968\nModern Operational Mathematics in Engineering, 1944\nNACA Reunion II, 1982\nNASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968: A Historical Summary, 1971\nOn The Two Point Boundary Value Problem, with Application to Celestial Mechanics, 1964\nPocket companion: information and tables for engineers and designers and other data pertaining to structural steel, 1934\nPractical Exporting, 1949\nPrinciples and Practices of Electrical Engineering, 1933\nProgressive Plane Geometry, 1935\nResistance of Materials, 1925\nReusable Orbital Transport, 1965\nSampling Microbiological Aerosols, 1959\nScientific Results of the Viking Project, 1977\nSpaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center from Sputnik to Apollo, 1995\nSteam, Air, and Gas Power, 1933 \nSterilization with Ethylene Oxide Gas Mixtures, 1966\nThe Internal Combustion Engine, 1938\nTechnical Aerodynamics, 1935\nTechniques for Microbiological Analysis, 1967\nTheory of Modern Steel Structures, Volume I: Statically Determinate Structures, 1936\nThreshhold Limit Values for 1967, 1967\nTreatise on Hydraulics, 1934\nWinds of Change: Expanding the Frontiers of Flight, 1992","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. 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Hill. \n     \nSeries II: Subject Files - The files in this series are in original groupings by Hill and cntain papers, notes, correspondence.","Series III: NASA Reports and Publications - This series contains official publications from NASA, memoranda, and meeting agendas from Hill's time at NACA/NASA.","Series IV: Other Papers and Publications - These files contain other publications that were part of the collection. Some of these publications were copies from other sources. The series is arranged chronologically.","Series V: Images - This series contains slides, slide negatives, drawings, photographs, and photograph negatives. \n  \nSeries VI: Clippings - This series contains clippings from various sources, separated by magazine or newspaper sources."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePaul R. Hill (1909-1990) was a renowned NASA engineer and UFO enthusiast. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 1936. After teaching at the Polytechnic College of Engineering in Oakland, California, Hill began his career with the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA) in 1939, which became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958. He worked at NASA until 1970, where he published numerous scientific and technical reports. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill was also an adamant UFO enthusiast. Based on his own personal sightings in 1952, Mr. Hill tried to use his scientific and engineering knowledge to understand how UFOs worked and eventually built his own flying platform. His book on the topic, \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eUnconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis\u003c/emph\u003e, was published post-humously in 1995. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill was married to Frances Hoback Hill (d. 1999) and had one daughter, Julie M. Hill. 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His book on the topic, Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis, was published post-humously in 1995.","Mr. Hill was married to Frances Hoback Hill (d. 1999) and had one daughter, Julie M. Hill. Hill died in 1990 at the age of 81."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Paul R. Hill Collection by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Paul R. Hill Collection by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Paul R. Hill Collection, Ms2010-068, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Paul R. Hill Collection, Ms2010-068, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe processing, arrangement, and description of the Paul R. Hill Collection commenced in 2010 and was completed in January 2011. Additional description was completed in August 2021.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["The processing, arrangement, and description of the Paul R. Hill Collection commenced in 2010 and was completed in January 2011. Additional description was completed in August 2021."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Paul R. Hill Collection contains material relating to the NACA/NASA/Langely career of Paul R. Hill from 1939-1970. Materials include books, papers, newspapers, lantern slides, NASA publications and memos, overhead sheets, and notes from presentations and talks. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany photographs portray Hill's design for a personal flight device. Other drawings reflect planetary orbits or space station models. Presentation notes accompany a few slide folders.  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also consists of various publications and papers written by Hill and other authors. Many of these publications are declassified official NASA reports, and others are NASA publications from award ceremonies and department memorandums. Wherever possible, bibliographies at the folder-level are included in the \"Contents List\" below. Other publications include drafts of papers reviewed by Hill. A number of books were removed from the collection to be catalogued (see \"Separated Materials\" below).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso included in this collection are personal papers of Paul R. Hill. Some of these items include his 1936 voter registration, work evaluations, and correspondence regarding his personal projects. Newspaper and magazine clippings kept by Hill are also included in the collection. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Paul R. Hill Collection contains material relating to the NACA/NASA/Langely career of Paul R. Hill from 1939-1970. Materials include books, papers, newspapers, lantern slides, NASA publications and memos, overhead sheets, and notes from presentations and talks.","Many photographs portray Hill's design for a personal flight device. Other drawings reflect planetary orbits or space station models. Presentation notes accompany a few slide folders.","The collection also consists of various publications and papers written by Hill and other authors. Many of these publications are declassified official NASA reports, and others are NASA publications from award ceremonies and department memorandums. Wherever possible, bibliographies at the folder-level are included in the \"Contents List\" below. Other publications include drafts of papers reviewed by Hill. A number of books were removed from the collection to be catalogued (see \"Separated Materials\" below).","Also included in this collection are personal papers of Paul R. Hill. Some of these items include his 1936 voter registration, work evaluations, and correspondence regarding his personal projects. Newspaper and magazine clippings kept by Hill are also included in the collection."],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["The following items have been removed and cataloged for the Special Collections Rare Book Collection:","A Class of Unified Explicit Methods for Steering Throttleable and Fixed-Thrust Rockets, 1964\nA Course in Electrical Engineering/Vol II: Alternating Currents, 1934\nA New Dimension: Wallops Island The First Fifteen Years, 1978\nA Short Table of Integrals, 1956\nA Superposition Principle for a System of Analytic Ordinary Differential Equations, 1963\nA Trajectory Optimization Technique Based on the Theory of Second Variation, 1964\nAccounting Principles, 1935\nAnalytical Mechanics for Engineers, 1933\nAir-Age Education Series: Science of Pre-Flight Aeronautics, 1944\nAirplane Dynamics, 1951\nAirplane Structures, Volume I, 1938\nAstronautics Magazine, September 1962 \nBacteriology Illustrated, 1965\nBacteriology: Principles and Practice, 1962\nComputation Curves for Compressible Fluid Problems, 1949\nDesign of Machine Elements, 1935\nDevelopment of Large Solid Propellant Boosters, 1962\nElementary Pile Theory, 1950\nElements of Chemistry, Volume II, 1853\nElements of the Differential and integral Calculus, 1929\nElements of Heat Power Engineering, 1915\nElements of Heat-Power Engineering, Part I: Thermodynamics and Prime Movers, 1926\nElements of Heat-Power Engineering, Part II: Steam-Generating Apparatus and Prime Movers, Fuels, Combustion, and Heat Transmission, 1933\nEngineering Applications of Fluid Mechanics, 1947\nExplosions and Combustion Processes in Gases, 1946\nGas Sterilants (Linde), n.d.\nGeometry of Engineering Drawing, 1926\nHistory of Wallops Station Part III Volume 1, 1971\nHistory of Wallops Station Part III Volume 2, 1971\nHydraulics: A Text on Practical Fluid Mechanics, 1937\nInternal-Combustion Engines, 1933\nKinetics of Machines, 1928\nLunar Flying Unit Status Review, 1968\nMagnethydrodynamics, 1957\nMathematical Theory of Rocket Flight, 1947\nMechanical Engineers' Handbook, 1941\nMillipore Bibliography, 1968\nModern Operational Mathematics in Engineering, 1944\nNACA Reunion II, 1982\nNASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968: A Historical Summary, 1971\nOn The Two Point Boundary Value Problem, with Application to Celestial Mechanics, 1964\nPocket companion: information and tables for engineers and designers and other data pertaining to structural steel, 1934\nPractical Exporting, 1949\nPrinciples and Practices of Electrical Engineering, 1933\nProgressive Plane Geometry, 1935\nResistance of Materials, 1925\nReusable Orbital Transport, 1965\nSampling Microbiological Aerosols, 1959\nScientific Results of the Viking Project, 1977\nSpaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center from Sputnik to Apollo, 1995\nSteam, Air, and Gas Power, 1933 \nSterilization with Ethylene Oxide Gas Mixtures, 1966\nThe Internal Combustion Engine, 1938\nTechnical Aerodynamics, 1935\nTechniques for Microbiological Analysis, 1967\nTheory of Modern Steel Structures, Volume I: Statically Determinate Structures, 1936\nThreshhold Limit Values for 1967, 1967\nTreatise on Hydraulics, 1934\nWinds of Change: Expanding the Frontiers of Flight, 1992"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_a70d5b68f1eff076e1abc527d5ec7f68\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe Paul R. Hill Collection contains material relating to the NASA career of Paul R. Hill. Materials include books, papers, newspapers, lantern slides, NASA publications and memos, overhead sheets, and notes from presentations and talks.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["The Paul R. Hill Collection contains material relating to the NASA career of Paul R. Hill. Materials include books, papers, newspapers, lantern slides, NASA publications and memos, overhead sheets, and notes from presentations and talks."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics","United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration"],"names_coll_ssim":["United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics","United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration"],"persname_ssim":["Hill, Paul R., 1909-1990"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics","United States. 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This includes materials such as Taylor's Aviation Cadet Training Rejection, an honorable discharge certificate, and a later letter explaining that he may be eligible for army duty. Other materials include a flight chart of Central America and a certificate of recognition for completion of the Gulf Sea Frontier Transport Pilot Course.","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. 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Gilruth (1913-2000) was an aerospace engineer and NACA/NASA administrator.  He received his B.S. in aeronautical engineering from the University of Minnesota (1935), as well as his M.S. (1936). Gilruth was also a flight research engineer for Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1937-1945).  From 1945 to 1950, he worked as chief of the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division, and assistant director (1950-58). He headed the Space Task Group for NASA (1958-61), and was charged with directing Project Mercury.  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He headed the Space Task Group for NASA (1958-61), and was charged with directing Project Mercury.  From 1961 to 1972, he was the first director of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston.","The NASA website has a number of more extensive resources on Gilruth's work, including interviews and press releases, discoverable by searching the site for \"Gilruth.\""],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Robert R. Gilruth Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Robert R. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. 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His papers consist of correspondence, notes, drafts of publications, files relating to students and courses, and reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences. Other highlights include Herrick's consulting files for projects such as NASA's Project Mercury, the film \"\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" (1951), and private industry. 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Items in Box 74 are restricted for use until 75 years after date of creation.","Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online.","Astrodynamics","The Betulia Files contain materials relating to the asteroid (1580) Betulia, named for Samuel Herrick's wife, Betulia Toro Herrick. This includes an article, calculations, correspondence, ephemerides, numerical integration, observations, elements, oppositions, and representations.\n    \n    The Icarus Files contain materials relating to the near-Earth object (1566) Icarus, including ephemerides, residuals, correspondence, history and facts, observations, orbit graphs, and publications.\n    \n    The Geographos Files contain materials relating to the asteroid (1620) Geographos, including early Encke orbit files, elements, ellipse graphs, ephemerides, general information, publicity, variation of parameters, and possible exploration.\n    The Jupiter IX and Jupiter XII Files contain materials relating to Jupiter IX (an irregular satellite of Jupiter now known as Sinope) and Jupiter XII (an irregular moon of Jupiter now known as Ananke). This includes Cowell integrations, ephemeris, graphs, basic calculations, history, general information, variation of constants, observations and representations, and publicity.\n    \n    Items not included in the above files consist of materials relating to other minor planets and objects, such as Lanzia, the Swift comet, and the Wilson object. This includes graphs and calculations, articles, observations, general information, history, ephemerides, opposition graphs, formulae, and procedures. Also included are Minor Planet Center Notices 151 through 2800, and 3535 through 3602.","Samuel Herrick, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics, was born in Madison County, Virginia, in 1911. He received a B. S. in Mathematics from Williams College in 1932 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1936. Most of his teaching career was spent at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Herrick served as an instructor in the Astronomy Department from 1937 to 1942; as an assistant professor from 1942 to 1947; as an associate professor from 1947 to 1952; and as a professor from 1952 to 1962. He was the Hunsaker Professor of Astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 1961-1962 and was made a professor in the Astronomy and Engineering Departments at UCLA in 1962. Herrick died in 1974.","Herrick's work applied the classic disciplines of celestial mechanics and mathematics to the special problems of space trajectory research. His studies of the celestial mechanics aspects of space navigation date from 1931, when he received advice and encouragement from R. H. Goddard. As early as 1936, he formulated a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems destined to become real problems only two decades later. In 1946, Herrick instituted a course in Rocket Navigation, the world's first university course designed specifically for astronautics. In 1957, he founded the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA to facilitate communication among scientists engaged in rocket research.","Herrick's publications number over two hundred items, culminating in his comprehensive two-volume work on Astrodynamics, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. His principal contributions to scientific theory are in the areas of orbit determination and ephemeris integration; universal variables; perturbation theory and variation of parameters; differential correction and least squares; space navigation; and sea and air navigation. Further information on Herrick and his accomplishments can be found in the biographical files in Box 1 of the collection.","The guide to the Samuel Herrick Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","Minimal description was completed prior to 1998.","Additional processing, arrangement and description of the Samuel Herrick Papers was completed as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) in 2024.","This collection is made up of the personal and professional papers of Samuel Herrick (1911-1974), astronomer and founder of the field of astrodynamics. It contains personal materials such as biographical and bibliographical information, correspondence, and personal subject files. This collection also contains materials that document Herrick's career in astronomy, beginning with his B.S. in Mathematics from Williams College and including his time teaching at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Among these are notes, drafts of publications, files relating to astrodynamics courses, computer printouts, manuscript calculations, and reprints of the works on others in astronomy and the space sciences. These include notable materials such as correspondence with R. H. Goddard, a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems, the founding of the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA, consulting files for NASA's Project Mercury and the film \"The Day the Earth Stood Still,\" and a comprehensive two-volume work on Astrodynamics, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. Materials are largely textual, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, publications, and others. This collection also includes glass plates, Fortran computer printouts, and some drawings.","Series I. Biographical Information, 1949-1973. This series is made up of materials relating to Herrick's life, such as biographical sketches of Herrick, biographical directory files, complete and partial bibliographies, and a personal reading log. These include information about his life, professional activities, honors and memeberships in societies, publications, and citations.","Series II. Academic Files, 1930-1974. This series contains materials related to Herrick's academic activities. This includes files and notes from his time as a student at Williams College, correspondence with faculty, files from his time with UCLA, course notes and materials from courses he taught, and student dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams.","Sub-Series A. Academic Activities and Affairs, 1935-1973, includes academic affairs files (1930-1970), UCLA Astronomy Dept.; Guggenheim fellowship (1945-1951); UCLA files; Hunsaker professorship at MIT (1961-1962); reviews of others' works; Los Angeles Advisory Committee (1964-1968); and participation in \"Los Angeles in Paris\" trip (1967-1968).","Sub-Series B. Correspondence, 1931-1972, consists of academic correspondence, including correspondence with R. H. Goddard.","Sub-Series C. Course Materials, 1948-1974. This sub-series includes course notes, outlines, and exams for space navigation (1955) and astrodynamics courses.","Sub-Series D. S.H. Students' Dissertations, Theses, and Comprehensive Exams, 1965-1973, includes drafts and completed versions of dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams from students Herrick taught.","Sub-Series E. Williams College, 1930-1969. This sub-series includes Williams College course notes; S.H. thesis and papers; and William College Correspondence.","Series III. Correspondence, 1930-1973. This series contains correspondence between Herrick and others ranging from 1930 to 1973.","Series IV. Consulting, 1940-1966. This series includes contracts and consultations, such as Ohio State Mapping Lab, Lockheed, North American Aviation, Army Air Force, NSF Grant G976, Western Data Processing Center, and 20th Century Fox [Consulting for \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\"]. It also includes materials such as monthly reports, proposals, and logs.","Series V. Presentations and Lectures, 1955-1964. This series consists of notes, outlines, slides, and other materials related to talks, presentations, and lectures given by Herrick. This includes talks and presentations given for organizations such as AIAA and IAU, covering topics such as differential correction, variation of parameters, planetary motions, and asteroids.","Series VI. Professional Societies, 1925-1973. This series includes materials related to professional societies in the space sciences, including, but not limited to: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Academy of Mechanics, American Academy of Sciences, American Rocket Society, British Interplanetary Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Materials include membership information, board of directors files, awards, annual meeting and conference notes, committees, reports, and journals.","Series VII. Publications, including Reprints and Drafts, 1932-1973. This series includes drafts and reprints of Herrick's many works, notably Astrodynamics, published in 1971-1972. The series also contains correspondence about Herrick's publications or his reviews of work published by others. There are also reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences.","Series VIII. Manuscript Calculations, 1948-1972. This series consists of calculations used in Herrick's studies of minor planets and objects. It includes materials such as shock waves of Icarus calculations, Project 15, minor planets and objects, perturbations, geophysical constraints and correction methods, collection of formulae, and ephemeral calculations.","Series IX. Computer Printouts, 1965-1973. This series includes early SH printouts, calculations, and Fortran computer runs such as Betulia ephemeris, Icarus ephemerides, Geographos, planetary coordinates, and two-body problems. Much of the computer printouts were created by Gary R. Smith, who received his Ph.D. in astrodynamics at UCLA in 1972 from Herrick.","Series X. Card Files, n.d. This series contains 4 sets card files with names and addresses of Herrick's contacts and bibliographies for celestial mechanics and astrodynamics.","Series XI. Subject Files, 1924-1981. This series includes Herrick's files on a variety of subjects. These materials reflect his professional and personal interests, including early computers, minor planets, space exploration, and piano music. Notable materials include Aeronutronic Systems Division-Ford files, Technical Study #3, mathematics publications, Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports, files on Betulia, Icarus, Geographos, and Jupiter IX and XII, Minor Planet Center Notices, and notes on navigation.","Series XII. Drawings and Calculations, 1949, n.d. This series consists of oversize drawings and calculations, including rectilinear tables, the nonimal system, and navigational drawings.","The following publications have been separated to the Rare Book Collection:","Harbold, Norris B. The Log of Air Navigation. San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1970.","Mechanics.Edited by N.C. Lind. Compiled and produced by American Academy of Mechanics, 1970.","Mechanics.Edited by N.C. Lind. Compiled and produced by American Academy of Mechanics, 1971.","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","Samuel Herrick was an astronomer who specialized in celestial mechanics, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics. His papers consist of correspondence, notes, drafts of publications, files relating to students and courses, and reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences. Other highlights include Herrick's consulting files for projects such as NASA's Project Mercury, the film \"\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" (1951), and private industry. This collection is part of the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech.","Please note: This collection is in off-site storage and requires 2-3 days notice for retrieval. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Herrick, Samuel, 1911-1974","Most of the materials in this collection are in English. Some materials in Series VI. Professional Societies, Series VII. Publications, and Series XI. Subject Files are in French, German, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, or Japanese."],"collection_title_tesim":["Samuel Herrick Papers, 1930/1974"],"collection_ssim":["Samuel Herrick Papers, 1930/1974"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Ms.1978.002","/repositories/2/resources/1323"],"unitid_tesim":["Ms.1978.002","/repositories/2/resources/1323"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University"],"creator_ssm":["Herrick, Samuel, 1911-1974"],"creator_ssim":["Herrick, Samuel, 1911-1974"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Herrick, Samuel, 1911-1974"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech"],"creators_ssim":["Herrick, Samuel, 1911-1974","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech"],"access_terms_ssm":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Samuel Herrick Papers were donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 1978."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Astronomy","Science and Technology","Astrodynamics","Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)","Astronomers","Aerospace engineers"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Astronomy","Science and Technology","Astrodynamics","Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)","Astronomers","Aerospace engineers"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["ca. 85 Cubic Feet 74 boxes, 1 oversize folder"],"extent_tesim":["ca. 85 Cubic Feet 74 boxes, 1 oversize folder"],"date_range_isim":[1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1938,1939,1940,1941,1942,1943,1944,1945,1946,1947,1948,1949,1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is open for research with the exception of Box 74, which is restricted for use. Items in Box 74 are restricted for use until 75 years after date of creation.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The collection is open for research with the exception of Box 74, which is restricted for use. Items in Box 74 are restricted for use until 75 years after date of creation."],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/collections/show/325\"\u003eSome of this collection has been digitized and is available online.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e  "],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Existence and Location of Copies"],"altformavail_tesim":["Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAstrodynamics\u003c/title\u003e. It also includes errata, vellums, research reports, and bibliography materials.\n\nSub-Series D. SH Numbered Publications (also see listing in Box 1), 1932-1972. This sub-series is made up of Herrick's publications numbers 1 through 233. They are numbered in accordance with his bibliography (located in Box 1) and include drafts and reprints of his work, as well as correspondence relating to it. Topics include orbit methods, comet observations, position determination, celestial navigation, planetary grids, ephemeris of minor planets and objects, rocket trajectories, space travel, lunar exploration, astronomical values, and advancements in astrodynamics. \n\nSub-Series E. Drafts of Articles and Book Chapters, 1944-1971, includes additional notes and drafts of articles and book chapters, such as Herrick's Contribution to CRC \"Handbook of Tables for Mathematics,\" 1965-1966, Gibb's Contribution to Orbit Theory, and Herrick's review of Einstein books. It also contains correspondence related to Herrick's drafts and publications.\n\nSeries VIII. Manuscript Calculations, 1948-1973. This series largely maintains the order it was received. Materials relating to Halley's Comet and (1566) Icarus have been grouped together for ease of use. \n\nSeries IX. Computer Printouts, 1965-1973\n\nSeries X. Card Files, n.d. This series has been separated into four parts to maintain the original order and separation of materials. \n\nSeries XI. Subject Files, 1924-1981. With the exception of general subject files, this series has been further divided into the following sub-series:\n\nSub-Series A. Aeronutronics Systems Division (ASD), 1956-1960, includes numbered files on various technical and organization matters, proposals, and projects. They are part of Herrick's series of Aeronutronic Systems Division-Ford files. Topics include, but are not limited to, a project planning committee, orbits for Vargo-Boeing, Navy direction presentation, and geodetic position determination.\n\nSub-Series B. Computers and Electronic Calculations, 1947-1967, includes manuals on early computers such as EDVAC and ZEPHYR, Monroe calculator, SWAC memoranda, coding sheets, differential analyzer operation and problems, and Technical Study #3.\n\nSub-Series C. Mathematics, 1931-1975, consists of materials relating to mathematical techniques, including Chebyshev polynomials, Hansen's method of general perturbations, numerical analysis and integration, data smoothing, theoretical mechanics, Encke's method, astronomical and gravitational constants, and universal variables. \n\nSub-Series D. Minor Planets and Objects, 1929-1983, has been divided further. Materials in this sub-series and its divisions have been alphabetized.\n\n","\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eThe Betulia Files contain materials relating to the asteroid (1580) Betulia, named for Samuel Herrick's wife, Betulia Toro Herrick. This includes an article, calculations, correspondence, ephemerides, numerical integration, observations, elements, oppositions, and representations.\u003c/li\u003e\n    \n    \u003cli\u003eThe Icarus Files contain materials relating to the near-Earth object (1566) Icarus, including ephemerides, residuals, correspondence, history and facts, observations, orbit graphs, and publications.\u003c/li\u003e\n    \n    \u003cli\u003eThe Geographos Files contain materials relating to the asteroid (1620) Geographos, including early Encke orbit files, elements, ellipse graphs, ephemerides, general information, publicity, variation of parameters, and possible exploration.\u003c/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eThe Jupiter IX and Jupiter XII Files contain materials relating to Jupiter IX (an irregular satellite of Jupiter now known as Sinope) and Jupiter XII (an irregular moon of Jupiter now known as Ananke). This includes Cowell integrations, ephemeris, graphs, basic calculations, history, general information, variation of constants, observations and representations, and publicity.\u003c/li\u003e\n    \n    \u003cli\u003eItems not included in the above files consist of materials relating to other minor planets and objects, such as Lanzia, the Swift comet, and the Wilson object. This includes graphs and calculations, articles, observations, general information, history, ephemerides, opposition graphs, formulae, and procedures. Also included are Minor Planet Center Notices 151 through 2800, and 3535 through 3602. \u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\nSub-Series E. Space Exploration, 1924-1975. This sub-series is made up of materials relating to space exploration, including space travel and navigation. This includes foreign journal articles on orbit determination, meeting minutes of NASA Earth model (1961), notes on \"fly-by\" orbits, artificial satellites, space colonies, UCLA moon base study, grid navigation, navigation methods, Project Mercury, precision satellite orbit correction, and planetary position data requirements for space vehicle trajectory computations.\n\nSeries XII. Drawings and Calculations, 1949, n.d.  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Astrodynamics","The Betulia Files contain materials relating to the asteroid (1580) Betulia, named for Samuel Herrick's wife, Betulia Toro Herrick. This includes an article, calculations, correspondence, ephemerides, numerical integration, observations, elements, oppositions, and representations.\n    \n    The Icarus Files contain materials relating to the near-Earth object (1566) Icarus, including ephemerides, residuals, correspondence, history and facts, observations, orbit graphs, and publications.\n    \n    The Geographos Files contain materials relating to the asteroid (1620) Geographos, including early Encke orbit files, elements, ellipse graphs, ephemerides, general information, publicity, variation of parameters, and possible exploration.\n    The Jupiter IX and Jupiter XII Files contain materials relating to Jupiter IX (an irregular satellite of Jupiter now known as Sinope) and Jupiter XII (an irregular moon of Jupiter now known as Ananke). This includes Cowell integrations, ephemeris, graphs, basic calculations, history, general information, variation of constants, observations and representations, and publicity.\n    \n    Items not included in the above files consist of materials relating to other minor planets and objects, such as Lanzia, the Swift comet, and the Wilson object. This includes graphs and calculations, articles, observations, general information, history, ephemerides, opposition graphs, formulae, and procedures. Also included are Minor Planet Center Notices 151 through 2800, and 3535 through 3602."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSamuel Herrick, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics, was born in Madison County, Virginia, in 1911. He received a B. S. in Mathematics from Williams College in 1932 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1936. Most of his teaching career was spent at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Herrick served as an instructor in the Astronomy Department from 1937 to 1942; as an assistant professor from 1942 to 1947; as an associate professor from 1947 to 1952; and as a professor from 1952 to 1962. He was the Hunsaker Professor of Astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 1961-1962 and was made a professor in the Astronomy and Engineering Departments at UCLA in 1962. Herrick died in 1974. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHerrick's work applied the classic disciplines of celestial mechanics and mathematics to the special problems of space trajectory research. His studies of the celestial mechanics aspects of space navigation date from 1931, when he received advice and encouragement from R. H. Goddard. As early as 1936, he formulated a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems destined to become real problems only two decades later. In 1946, Herrick instituted a course in Rocket Navigation, the world's first university course designed specifically for astronautics. In 1957, he founded the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA to facilitate communication among scientists engaged in rocket research. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHerrick's publications number over two hundred items, culminating in his comprehensive two-volume work on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAstrodynamics\u003c/title\u003e, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. His principal contributions to scientific theory are in the areas of orbit determination and ephemeris integration; universal variables; perturbation theory and variation of parameters; differential correction and least squares; space navigation; and sea and air navigation. Further information on Herrick and his accomplishments can be found in the biographical files in Box 1 of the collection. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Note"],"bioghist_tesim":["Samuel Herrick, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics, was born in Madison County, Virginia, in 1911. He received a B. S. in Mathematics from Williams College in 1932 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1936. Most of his teaching career was spent at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Herrick served as an instructor in the Astronomy Department from 1937 to 1942; as an assistant professor from 1942 to 1947; as an associate professor from 1947 to 1952; and as a professor from 1952 to 1962. He was the Hunsaker Professor of Astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 1961-1962 and was made a professor in the Astronomy and Engineering Departments at UCLA in 1962. Herrick died in 1974.","Herrick's work applied the classic disciplines of celestial mechanics and mathematics to the special problems of space trajectory research. His studies of the celestial mechanics aspects of space navigation date from 1931, when he received advice and encouragement from R. H. Goddard. As early as 1936, he formulated a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems destined to become real problems only two decades later. In 1946, Herrick instituted a course in Rocket Navigation, the world's first university course designed specifically for astronautics. In 1957, he founded the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA to facilitate communication among scientists engaged in rocket research.","Herrick's publications number over two hundred items, culminating in his comprehensive two-volume work on Astrodynamics, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. His principal contributions to scientific theory are in the areas of orbit determination and ephemeris integration; universal variables; perturbation theory and variation of parameters; differential correction and least squares; space navigation; and sea and air navigation. Further information on Herrick and his accomplishments can be found in the biographical files in Box 1 of the collection."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Samuel Herrick Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Samuel Herrick Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Samuel Herrick Papers, Ms1978-002, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Samuel Herrick Papers, Ms1978-002, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMinimal description was completed prior to 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional processing, arrangement and description of the Samuel Herrick Papers was completed as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.archives.gov/nhprc\"\u003eNational Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)\u003c/a\u003e in 2024. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["Minimal description was completed prior to 1998.","Additional processing, arrangement and description of the Samuel Herrick Papers was completed as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) in 2024."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is made up of the personal and professional papers of Samuel Herrick (1911-1974), astronomer and founder of the field of astrodynamics. It contains personal materials such as biographical and bibliographical information, correspondence, and personal subject files. This collection also contains materials that document Herrick's career in astronomy, beginning with his B.S. in Mathematics from Williams College and including his time teaching at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Among these are notes, drafts of publications, files relating to astrodynamics courses, computer printouts, manuscript calculations, and reprints of the works on others in astronomy and the space sciences. These include notable materials such as correspondence with R. H. Goddard, a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems, the founding of the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA, consulting files for NASA's Project Mercury and the film \"The Day the Earth Stood Still,\" and a comprehensive two-volume work on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAstrodynamics\u003c/title\u003e, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. Materials are largely textual, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, publications, and others. This collection also includes glass plates, Fortran computer printouts, and some drawings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries I. Biographical Information, 1949-1973. This series is made up of materials relating to Herrick's life, such as biographical sketches of Herrick, biographical directory files, complete and partial bibliographies, and a personal reading log. These include information about his life, professional activities, honors and memeberships in societies, publications, and citations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Academic Files, 1930-1974. This series contains materials related to Herrick's academic activities. This includes files and notes from his time as a student at Williams College, correspondence with faculty, files from his time with UCLA, course notes and materials from courses he taught, and student dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A. Academic Activities and Affairs, 1935-1973, includes academic affairs files (1930-1970), UCLA Astronomy Dept.; Guggenheim fellowship (1945-1951); UCLA files; Hunsaker professorship at MIT (1961-1962); reviews of others' works; Los Angeles Advisory Committee (1964-1968); and participation in \"Los Angeles in Paris\" trip (1967-1968).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B. Correspondence, 1931-1972, consists of academic correspondence, including correspondence with R. H. Goddard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series C. Course Materials, 1948-1974. This sub-series includes course notes, outlines, and exams for space navigation (1955) and astrodynamics courses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series D. S.H. Students' Dissertations, Theses, and Comprehensive Exams, 1965-1973, includes drafts and completed versions of dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams from students Herrick taught.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series E. Williams College, 1930-1969. This sub-series includes Williams College course notes; S.H. thesis and papers; and William College Correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Correspondence, 1930-1973. This series contains correspondence between Herrick and others ranging from 1930 to 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV. Consulting, 1940-1966. This series includes contracts and consultations, such as Ohio State Mapping Lab, Lockheed, North American Aviation, Army Air Force, NSF Grant G976, Western Data Processing Center, and 20th Century Fox [Consulting for \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\"]. It also includes materials such as monthly reports, proposals, and logs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries V. Presentations and Lectures, 1955-1964. This series consists of notes, outlines, slides, and other materials related to talks, presentations, and lectures given by Herrick. This includes talks and presentations given for organizations such as AIAA and IAU, covering topics such as differential correction, variation of parameters, planetary motions, and asteroids.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI. Professional Societies, 1925-1973. This series includes materials related to professional societies in the space sciences, including, but not limited to: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Academy of Mechanics, American Academy of Sciences, American Rocket Society, British Interplanetary Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Materials include membership information, board of directors files, awards, annual meeting and conference notes, committees, reports, and journals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII. Publications, including Reprints and Drafts, 1932-1973. This series includes drafts and reprints of Herrick's many works, notably \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAstrodynamics\u003c/title\u003e, published in 1971-1972. The series also contains correspondence about Herrick's publications or his reviews of work published by others. There are also reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII. Manuscript Calculations, 1948-1972. This series consists of calculations used in Herrick's studies of minor planets and objects. It includes materials such as shock waves of Icarus calculations, Project 15, minor planets and objects, perturbations, geophysical constraints and correction methods, collection of formulae, and ephemeral calculations. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IX. Computer Printouts, 1965-1973. This series includes early SH printouts, calculations, and Fortran computer runs such as Betulia ephemeris, Icarus ephemerides, Geographos, planetary coordinates, and two-body problems. Much of the computer printouts were created by Gary R. Smith, who received his Ph.D. in astrodynamics at UCLA in 1972 from Herrick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries X. Card Files, n.d. This series contains 4 sets card files with names and addresses of Herrick's contacts and bibliographies for celestial mechanics and astrodynamics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XI. Subject Files, 1924-1981. This series includes Herrick's files on a variety of subjects. These materials reflect his professional and personal interests, including early computers, minor planets, space exploration, and piano music. Notable materials include Aeronutronic Systems Division-Ford files, Technical Study #3, mathematics publications, Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports, files on Betulia, Icarus, Geographos, and Jupiter IX and XII, Minor Planet Center Notices, and notes on navigation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XII. Drawings and Calculations, 1949, n.d. This series consists of oversize drawings and calculations, including rectilinear tables, the nonimal system, and navigational drawings.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection is made up of the personal and professional papers of Samuel Herrick (1911-1974), astronomer and founder of the field of astrodynamics. It contains personal materials such as biographical and bibliographical information, correspondence, and personal subject files. This collection also contains materials that document Herrick's career in astronomy, beginning with his B.S. in Mathematics from Williams College and including his time teaching at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Among these are notes, drafts of publications, files relating to astrodynamics courses, computer printouts, manuscript calculations, and reprints of the works on others in astronomy and the space sciences. These include notable materials such as correspondence with R. H. Goddard, a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems, the founding of the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA, consulting files for NASA's Project Mercury and the film \"The Day the Earth Stood Still,\" and a comprehensive two-volume work on Astrodynamics, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. Materials are largely textual, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, publications, and others. This collection also includes glass plates, Fortran computer printouts, and some drawings.","Series I. Biographical Information, 1949-1973. This series is made up of materials relating to Herrick's life, such as biographical sketches of Herrick, biographical directory files, complete and partial bibliographies, and a personal reading log. These include information about his life, professional activities, honors and memeberships in societies, publications, and citations.","Series II. Academic Files, 1930-1974. This series contains materials related to Herrick's academic activities. This includes files and notes from his time as a student at Williams College, correspondence with faculty, files from his time with UCLA, course notes and materials from courses he taught, and student dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams.","Sub-Series A. Academic Activities and Affairs, 1935-1973, includes academic affairs files (1930-1970), UCLA Astronomy Dept.; Guggenheim fellowship (1945-1951); UCLA files; Hunsaker professorship at MIT (1961-1962); reviews of others' works; Los Angeles Advisory Committee (1964-1968); and participation in \"Los Angeles in Paris\" trip (1967-1968).","Sub-Series B. Correspondence, 1931-1972, consists of academic correspondence, including correspondence with R. H. Goddard.","Sub-Series C. Course Materials, 1948-1974. This sub-series includes course notes, outlines, and exams for space navigation (1955) and astrodynamics courses.","Sub-Series D. S.H. Students' Dissertations, Theses, and Comprehensive Exams, 1965-1973, includes drafts and completed versions of dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams from students Herrick taught.","Sub-Series E. Williams College, 1930-1969. This sub-series includes Williams College course notes; S.H. thesis and papers; and William College Correspondence.","Series III. Correspondence, 1930-1973. This series contains correspondence between Herrick and others ranging from 1930 to 1973.","Series IV. Consulting, 1940-1966. This series includes contracts and consultations, such as Ohio State Mapping Lab, Lockheed, North American Aviation, Army Air Force, NSF Grant G976, Western Data Processing Center, and 20th Century Fox [Consulting for \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\"]. It also includes materials such as monthly reports, proposals, and logs.","Series V. Presentations and Lectures, 1955-1964. This series consists of notes, outlines, slides, and other materials related to talks, presentations, and lectures given by Herrick. This includes talks and presentations given for organizations such as AIAA and IAU, covering topics such as differential correction, variation of parameters, planetary motions, and asteroids.","Series VI. Professional Societies, 1925-1973. This series includes materials related to professional societies in the space sciences, including, but not limited to: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Academy of Mechanics, American Academy of Sciences, American Rocket Society, British Interplanetary Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Materials include membership information, board of directors files, awards, annual meeting and conference notes, committees, reports, and journals.","Series VII. Publications, including Reprints and Drafts, 1932-1973. This series includes drafts and reprints of Herrick's many works, notably Astrodynamics, published in 1971-1972. The series also contains correspondence about Herrick's publications or his reviews of work published by others. There are also reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences.","Series VIII. Manuscript Calculations, 1948-1972. This series consists of calculations used in Herrick's studies of minor planets and objects. It includes materials such as shock waves of Icarus calculations, Project 15, minor planets and objects, perturbations, geophysical constraints and correction methods, collection of formulae, and ephemeral calculations.","Series IX. Computer Printouts, 1965-1973. This series includes early SH printouts, calculations, and Fortran computer runs such as Betulia ephemeris, Icarus ephemerides, Geographos, planetary coordinates, and two-body problems. Much of the computer printouts were created by Gary R. Smith, who received his Ph.D. in astrodynamics at UCLA in 1972 from Herrick.","Series X. Card Files, n.d. This series contains 4 sets card files with names and addresses of Herrick's contacts and bibliographies for celestial mechanics and astrodynamics.","Series XI. Subject Files, 1924-1981. This series includes Herrick's files on a variety of subjects. These materials reflect his professional and personal interests, including early computers, minor planets, space exploration, and piano music. Notable materials include Aeronutronic Systems Division-Ford files, Technical Study #3, mathematics publications, Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports, files on Betulia, Icarus, Geographos, and Jupiter IX and XII, Minor Planet Center Notices, and notes on navigation.","Series XII. Drawings and Calculations, 1949, n.d. This series consists of oversize drawings and calculations, including rectilinear tables, the nonimal system, and navigational drawings."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following publications have been separated to the Rare Book Collection:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarbold, Norris B. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Log of Air Navigation\u003c/title\u003e. San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1970.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMechanics\u003c/title\u003e.Edited by N.C. Lind. 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His papers consist of correspondence, notes, drafts of publications, files relating to students and courses, and reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences. Other highlights include Herrick's consulting files for projects such as NASA's Project Mercury, the film \"\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" (1951), and private industry. This collection is part of the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Samuel Herrick was an astronomer who specialized in celestial mechanics, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics. His papers consist of correspondence, notes, drafts of publications, files relating to students and courses, and reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences. Other highlights include Herrick's consulting files for projects such as NASA's Project Mercury, the film \"\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" (1951), and private industry. This collection is part of the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_4fc81cde4ab25c82e0187aaee248b2b7\" label=\"Physical Access\"\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePlease note:\u003c/emph\u003e This collection is in off-site storage and requires 2-3 days notice for retrieval. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.\u003c/physloc\u003e\n    "],"physloc_tesim":["Please note: This collection is in off-site storage and requires 2-3 days notice for retrieval. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech"],"persname_ssim":["Herrick, Samuel, 1911-1974"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Herrick, Samuel, 1911-1974"],"language_ssim":["Most of the materials in this collection are in English. Some materials in Series VI. 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Items in Box 74 are restricted for use until 75 years after date of creation.","Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online.","Astrodynamics","The Betulia Files contain materials relating to the asteroid (1580) Betulia, named for Samuel Herrick's wife, Betulia Toro Herrick. This includes an article, calculations, correspondence, ephemerides, numerical integration, observations, elements, oppositions, and representations.\n    \n    The Icarus Files contain materials relating to the near-Earth object (1566) Icarus, including ephemerides, residuals, correspondence, history and facts, observations, orbit graphs, and publications.\n    \n    The Geographos Files contain materials relating to the asteroid (1620) Geographos, including early Encke orbit files, elements, ellipse graphs, ephemerides, general information, publicity, variation of parameters, and possible exploration.\n    The Jupiter IX and Jupiter XII Files contain materials relating to Jupiter IX (an irregular satellite of Jupiter now known as Sinope) and Jupiter XII (an irregular moon of Jupiter now known as Ananke). This includes Cowell integrations, ephemeris, graphs, basic calculations, history, general information, variation of constants, observations and representations, and publicity.\n    \n    Items not included in the above files consist of materials relating to other minor planets and objects, such as Lanzia, the Swift comet, and the Wilson object. This includes graphs and calculations, articles, observations, general information, history, ephemerides, opposition graphs, formulae, and procedures. Also included are Minor Planet Center Notices 151 through 2800, and 3535 through 3602.","Samuel Herrick, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics, was born in Madison County, Virginia, in 1911. He received a B. S. in Mathematics from Williams College in 1932 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1936. Most of his teaching career was spent at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Herrick served as an instructor in the Astronomy Department from 1937 to 1942; as an assistant professor from 1942 to 1947; as an associate professor from 1947 to 1952; and as a professor from 1952 to 1962. He was the Hunsaker Professor of Astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 1961-1962 and was made a professor in the Astronomy and Engineering Departments at UCLA in 1962. Herrick died in 1974.","Herrick's work applied the classic disciplines of celestial mechanics and mathematics to the special problems of space trajectory research. His studies of the celestial mechanics aspects of space navigation date from 1931, when he received advice and encouragement from R. H. Goddard. As early as 1936, he formulated a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems destined to become real problems only two decades later. In 1946, Herrick instituted a course in Rocket Navigation, the world's first university course designed specifically for astronautics. In 1957, he founded the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA to facilitate communication among scientists engaged in rocket research.","Herrick's publications number over two hundred items, culminating in his comprehensive two-volume work on Astrodynamics, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. His principal contributions to scientific theory are in the areas of orbit determination and ephemeris integration; universal variables; perturbation theory and variation of parameters; differential correction and least squares; space navigation; and sea and air navigation. Further information on Herrick and his accomplishments can be found in the biographical files in Box 1 of the collection.","The guide to the Samuel Herrick Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","Minimal description was completed prior to 1998.","Additional processing, arrangement and description of the Samuel Herrick Papers was completed as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) in 2024.","This collection is made up of the personal and professional papers of Samuel Herrick (1911-1974), astronomer and founder of the field of astrodynamics. It contains personal materials such as biographical and bibliographical information, correspondence, and personal subject files. This collection also contains materials that document Herrick's career in astronomy, beginning with his B.S. in Mathematics from Williams College and including his time teaching at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Among these are notes, drafts of publications, files relating to astrodynamics courses, computer printouts, manuscript calculations, and reprints of the works on others in astronomy and the space sciences. These include notable materials such as correspondence with R. H. Goddard, a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems, the founding of the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA, consulting files for NASA's Project Mercury and the film \"The Day the Earth Stood Still,\" and a comprehensive two-volume work on Astrodynamics, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. Materials are largely textual, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, publications, and others. This collection also includes glass plates, Fortran computer printouts, and some drawings.","Series I. Biographical Information, 1949-1973. This series is made up of materials relating to Herrick's life, such as biographical sketches of Herrick, biographical directory files, complete and partial bibliographies, and a personal reading log. These include information about his life, professional activities, honors and memeberships in societies, publications, and citations.","Series II. Academic Files, 1930-1974. This series contains materials related to Herrick's academic activities. This includes files and notes from his time as a student at Williams College, correspondence with faculty, files from his time with UCLA, course notes and materials from courses he taught, and student dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams.","Sub-Series A. Academic Activities and Affairs, 1935-1973, includes academic affairs files (1930-1970), UCLA Astronomy Dept.; Guggenheim fellowship (1945-1951); UCLA files; Hunsaker professorship at MIT (1961-1962); reviews of others' works; Los Angeles Advisory Committee (1964-1968); and participation in \"Los Angeles in Paris\" trip (1967-1968).","Sub-Series B. Correspondence, 1931-1972, consists of academic correspondence, including correspondence with R. H. Goddard.","Sub-Series C. Course Materials, 1948-1974. This sub-series includes course notes, outlines, and exams for space navigation (1955) and astrodynamics courses.","Sub-Series D. S.H. Students' Dissertations, Theses, and Comprehensive Exams, 1965-1973, includes drafts and completed versions of dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams from students Herrick taught.","Sub-Series E. Williams College, 1930-1969. This sub-series includes Williams College course notes; S.H. thesis and papers; and William College Correspondence.","Series III. Correspondence, 1930-1973. This series contains correspondence between Herrick and others ranging from 1930 to 1973.","Series IV. Consulting, 1940-1966. This series includes contracts and consultations, such as Ohio State Mapping Lab, Lockheed, North American Aviation, Army Air Force, NSF Grant G976, Western Data Processing Center, and 20th Century Fox [Consulting for \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\"]. It also includes materials such as monthly reports, proposals, and logs.","Series V. Presentations and Lectures, 1955-1964. This series consists of notes, outlines, slides, and other materials related to talks, presentations, and lectures given by Herrick. This includes talks and presentations given for organizations such as AIAA and IAU, covering topics such as differential correction, variation of parameters, planetary motions, and asteroids.","Series VI. Professional Societies, 1925-1973. This series includes materials related to professional societies in the space sciences, including, but not limited to: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Academy of Mechanics, American Academy of Sciences, American Rocket Society, British Interplanetary Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Materials include membership information, board of directors files, awards, annual meeting and conference notes, committees, reports, and journals.","Series VII. Publications, including Reprints and Drafts, 1932-1973. This series includes drafts and reprints of Herrick's many works, notably Astrodynamics, published in 1971-1972. The series also contains correspondence about Herrick's publications or his reviews of work published by others. There are also reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences.","Series VIII. Manuscript Calculations, 1948-1972. This series consists of calculations used in Herrick's studies of minor planets and objects. It includes materials such as shock waves of Icarus calculations, Project 15, minor planets and objects, perturbations, geophysical constraints and correction methods, collection of formulae, and ephemeral calculations.","Series IX. Computer Printouts, 1965-1973. This series includes early SH printouts, calculations, and Fortran computer runs such as Betulia ephemeris, Icarus ephemerides, Geographos, planetary coordinates, and two-body problems. Much of the computer printouts were created by Gary R. Smith, who received his Ph.D. in astrodynamics at UCLA in 1972 from Herrick.","Series X. Card Files, n.d. This series contains 4 sets card files with names and addresses of Herrick's contacts and bibliographies for celestial mechanics and astrodynamics.","Series XI. Subject Files, 1924-1981. This series includes Herrick's files on a variety of subjects. These materials reflect his professional and personal interests, including early computers, minor planets, space exploration, and piano music. Notable materials include Aeronutronic Systems Division-Ford files, Technical Study #3, mathematics publications, Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports, files on Betulia, Icarus, Geographos, and Jupiter IX and XII, Minor Planet Center Notices, and notes on navigation.","Series XII. Drawings and Calculations, 1949, n.d. This series consists of oversize drawings and calculations, including rectilinear tables, the nonimal system, and navigational drawings.","The following publications have been separated to the Rare Book Collection:","Harbold, Norris B. The Log of Air Navigation. San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1970.","Mechanics.Edited by N.C. Lind. Compiled and produced by American Academy of Mechanics, 1970.","Mechanics.Edited by N.C. Lind. Compiled and produced by American Academy of Mechanics, 1971.","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","Samuel Herrick was an astronomer who specialized in celestial mechanics, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics. His papers consist of correspondence, notes, drafts of publications, files relating to students and courses, and reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences. Other highlights include Herrick's consulting files for projects such as NASA's Project Mercury, the film \"\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" (1951), and private industry. This collection is part of the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech.","Please note: This collection is in off-site storage and requires 2-3 days notice for retrieval. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives for more information.","Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech","Herrick, Samuel, 1911-1974","Most of the materials in this collection are in English. Some materials in Series VI. Professional Societies, Series VII. Publications, and Series XI. 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This sub-series is made up of Herrick's publications numbers 1 through 233. They are numbered in accordance with his bibliography (located in Box 1) and include drafts and reprints of his work, as well as correspondence relating to it. Topics include orbit methods, comet observations, position determination, celestial navigation, planetary grids, ephemeris of minor planets and objects, rocket trajectories, space travel, lunar exploration, astronomical values, and advancements in astrodynamics. \n\nSub-Series E. Drafts of Articles and Book Chapters, 1944-1971, includes additional notes and drafts of articles and book chapters, such as Herrick's Contribution to CRC \"Handbook of Tables for Mathematics,\" 1965-1966, Gibb's Contribution to Orbit Theory, and Herrick's review of Einstein books. It also contains correspondence related to Herrick's drafts and publications.\n\nSeries VIII. Manuscript Calculations, 1948-1973. This series largely maintains the order it was received. Materials relating to Halley's Comet and (1566) Icarus have been grouped together for ease of use. \n\nSeries IX. Computer Printouts, 1965-1973\n\nSeries X. Card Files, n.d. This series has been separated into four parts to maintain the original order and separation of materials. \n\nSeries XI. Subject Files, 1924-1981. With the exception of general subject files, this series has been further divided into the following sub-series:\n\nSub-Series A. Aeronutronics Systems Division (ASD), 1956-1960, includes numbered files on various technical and organization matters, proposals, and projects. They are part of Herrick's series of Aeronutronic Systems Division-Ford files. Topics include, but are not limited to, a project planning committee, orbits for Vargo-Boeing, Navy direction presentation, and geodetic position determination.\n\nSub-Series B. 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This includes foreign journal articles on orbit determination, meeting minutes of NASA Earth model (1961), notes on \"fly-by\" orbits, artificial satellites, space colonies, UCLA moon base study, grid navigation, navigation methods, Project Mercury, precision satellite orbit correction, and planetary position data requirements for space vehicle trajectory computations.\n\nSeries XII. Drawings and Calculations, 1949, n.d.  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Astrodynamics","The Betulia Files contain materials relating to the asteroid (1580) Betulia, named for Samuel Herrick's wife, Betulia Toro Herrick. 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In 1946, Herrick instituted a course in Rocket Navigation, the world's first university course designed specifically for astronautics. In 1957, he founded the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA to facilitate communication among scientists engaged in rocket research. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHerrick's publications number over two hundred items, culminating in his comprehensive two-volume work on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAstrodynamics\u003c/title\u003e, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. His principal contributions to scientific theory are in the areas of orbit determination and ephemeris integration; universal variables; perturbation theory and variation of parameters; differential correction and least squares; space navigation; and sea and air navigation. 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Herrick died in 1974.","Herrick's work applied the classic disciplines of celestial mechanics and mathematics to the special problems of space trajectory research. His studies of the celestial mechanics aspects of space navigation date from 1931, when he received advice and encouragement from R. H. Goddard. As early as 1936, he formulated a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems destined to become real problems only two decades later. In 1946, Herrick instituted a course in Rocket Navigation, the world's first university course designed specifically for astronautics. In 1957, he founded the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA to facilitate communication among scientists engaged in rocket research.","Herrick's publications number over two hundred items, culminating in his comprehensive two-volume work on Astrodynamics, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. His principal contributions to scientific theory are in the areas of orbit determination and ephemeris integration; universal variables; perturbation theory and variation of parameters; differential correction and least squares; space navigation; and sea and air navigation. Further information on Herrick and his accomplishments can be found in the biographical files in Box 1 of the collection."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Samuel Herrick Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (\u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\"\u003ehttps://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/\u003c/a\u003e).\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["Rights Statement for Archival Description"],"odd_tesim":["The guide to the Samuel Herrick Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eResearchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Samuel Herrick Papers, Ms1978-002, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Samuel Herrick Papers, Ms1978-002, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMinimal description was completed prior to 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional processing, arrangement and description of the Samuel Herrick Papers was completed as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.archives.gov/nhprc\"\u003eNational Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)\u003c/a\u003e in 2024. \u003c/p\u003e  "],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["Minimal description was completed prior to 1998.","Additional processing, arrangement and description of the Samuel Herrick Papers was completed as part of the project, \"Piercing the Veil: Creating Access to the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech,\" funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) in 2024."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is made up of the personal and professional papers of Samuel Herrick (1911-1974), astronomer and founder of the field of astrodynamics. It contains personal materials such as biographical and bibliographical information, correspondence, and personal subject files. This collection also contains materials that document Herrick's career in astronomy, beginning with his B.S. in Mathematics from Williams College and including his time teaching at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Among these are notes, drafts of publications, files relating to astrodynamics courses, computer printouts, manuscript calculations, and reprints of the works on others in astronomy and the space sciences. These include notable materials such as correspondence with R. H. Goddard, a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems, the founding of the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA, consulting files for NASA's Project Mercury and the film \"The Day the Earth Stood Still,\" and a comprehensive two-volume work on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAstrodynamics\u003c/title\u003e, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. Materials are largely textual, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, publications, and others. This collection also includes glass plates, Fortran computer printouts, and some drawings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries I. Biographical Information, 1949-1973. This series is made up of materials relating to Herrick's life, such as biographical sketches of Herrick, biographical directory files, complete and partial bibliographies, and a personal reading log. These include information about his life, professional activities, honors and memeberships in societies, publications, and citations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries II. Academic Files, 1930-1974. This series contains materials related to Herrick's academic activities. This includes files and notes from his time as a student at Williams College, correspondence with faculty, files from his time with UCLA, course notes and materials from courses he taught, and student dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series A. Academic Activities and Affairs, 1935-1973, includes academic affairs files (1930-1970), UCLA Astronomy Dept.; Guggenheim fellowship (1945-1951); UCLA files; Hunsaker professorship at MIT (1961-1962); reviews of others' works; Los Angeles Advisory Committee (1964-1968); and participation in \"Los Angeles in Paris\" trip (1967-1968).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series B. Correspondence, 1931-1972, consists of academic correspondence, including correspondence with R. H. Goddard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series C. Course Materials, 1948-1974. This sub-series includes course notes, outlines, and exams for space navigation (1955) and astrodynamics courses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series D. S.H. Students' Dissertations, Theses, and Comprehensive Exams, 1965-1973, includes drafts and completed versions of dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams from students Herrick taught.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSub-Series E. Williams College, 1930-1969. This sub-series includes Williams College course notes; S.H. thesis and papers; and William College Correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries III. Correspondence, 1930-1973. This series contains correspondence between Herrick and others ranging from 1930 to 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV. Consulting, 1940-1966. This series includes contracts and consultations, such as Ohio State Mapping Lab, Lockheed, North American Aviation, Army Air Force, NSF Grant G976, Western Data Processing Center, and 20th Century Fox [Consulting for \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\"]. It also includes materials such as monthly reports, proposals, and logs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries V. Presentations and Lectures, 1955-1964. This series consists of notes, outlines, slides, and other materials related to talks, presentations, and lectures given by Herrick. This includes talks and presentations given for organizations such as AIAA and IAU, covering topics such as differential correction, variation of parameters, planetary motions, and asteroids.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VI. Professional Societies, 1925-1973. This series includes materials related to professional societies in the space sciences, including, but not limited to: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Academy of Mechanics, American Academy of Sciences, American Rocket Society, British Interplanetary Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Materials include membership information, board of directors files, awards, annual meeting and conference notes, committees, reports, and journals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VII. Publications, including Reprints and Drafts, 1932-1973. This series includes drafts and reprints of Herrick's many works, notably \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eAstrodynamics\u003c/title\u003e, published in 1971-1972. The series also contains correspondence about Herrick's publications or his reviews of work published by others. There are also reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries VIII. Manuscript Calculations, 1948-1972. This series consists of calculations used in Herrick's studies of minor planets and objects. It includes materials such as shock waves of Icarus calculations, Project 15, minor planets and objects, perturbations, geophysical constraints and correction methods, collection of formulae, and ephemeral calculations. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries IX. Computer Printouts, 1965-1973. This series includes early SH printouts, calculations, and Fortran computer runs such as Betulia ephemeris, Icarus ephemerides, Geographos, planetary coordinates, and two-body problems. Much of the computer printouts were created by Gary R. Smith, who received his Ph.D. in astrodynamics at UCLA in 1972 from Herrick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries X. Card Files, n.d. This series contains 4 sets card files with names and addresses of Herrick's contacts and bibliographies for celestial mechanics and astrodynamics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XI. Subject Files, 1924-1981. This series includes Herrick's files on a variety of subjects. These materials reflect his professional and personal interests, including early computers, minor planets, space exploration, and piano music. Notable materials include Aeronutronic Systems Division-Ford files, Technical Study #3, mathematics publications, Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports, files on Betulia, Icarus, Geographos, and Jupiter IX and XII, Minor Planet Center Notices, and notes on navigation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeries XII. Drawings and Calculations, 1949, n.d. This series consists of oversize drawings and calculations, including rectilinear tables, the nonimal system, and navigational drawings.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection is made up of the personal and professional papers of Samuel Herrick (1911-1974), astronomer and founder of the field of astrodynamics. It contains personal materials such as biographical and bibliographical information, correspondence, and personal subject files. This collection also contains materials that document Herrick's career in astronomy, beginning with his B.S. in Mathematics from Williams College and including his time teaching at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Among these are notes, drafts of publications, files relating to astrodynamics courses, computer printouts, manuscript calculations, and reprints of the works on others in astronomy and the space sciences. These include notable materials such as correspondence with R. H. Goddard, a development program for the utilization of celestial mechanics in the solution of space navigation problems, the founding of the Astrodynamics Colloquium at UCLA, consulting files for NASA's Project Mercury and the film \"The Day the Earth Stood Still,\" and a comprehensive two-volume work on Astrodynamics, published by Van Nostrand in 1971-1972. Materials are largely textual, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, publications, and others. This collection also includes glass plates, Fortran computer printouts, and some drawings.","Series I. Biographical Information, 1949-1973. This series is made up of materials relating to Herrick's life, such as biographical sketches of Herrick, biographical directory files, complete and partial bibliographies, and a personal reading log. These include information about his life, professional activities, honors and memeberships in societies, publications, and citations.","Series II. Academic Files, 1930-1974. This series contains materials related to Herrick's academic activities. This includes files and notes from his time as a student at Williams College, correspondence with faculty, files from his time with UCLA, course notes and materials from courses he taught, and student dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams.","Sub-Series A. Academic Activities and Affairs, 1935-1973, includes academic affairs files (1930-1970), UCLA Astronomy Dept.; Guggenheim fellowship (1945-1951); UCLA files; Hunsaker professorship at MIT (1961-1962); reviews of others' works; Los Angeles Advisory Committee (1964-1968); and participation in \"Los Angeles in Paris\" trip (1967-1968).","Sub-Series B. Correspondence, 1931-1972, consists of academic correspondence, including correspondence with R. H. Goddard.","Sub-Series C. Course Materials, 1948-1974. This sub-series includes course notes, outlines, and exams for space navigation (1955) and astrodynamics courses.","Sub-Series D. S.H. Students' Dissertations, Theses, and Comprehensive Exams, 1965-1973, includes drafts and completed versions of dissertations, theses, and comprehensive exams from students Herrick taught.","Sub-Series E. Williams College, 1930-1969. This sub-series includes Williams College course notes; S.H. thesis and papers; and William College Correspondence.","Series III. Correspondence, 1930-1973. This series contains correspondence between Herrick and others ranging from 1930 to 1973.","Series IV. Consulting, 1940-1966. This series includes contracts and consultations, such as Ohio State Mapping Lab, Lockheed, North American Aviation, Army Air Force, NSF Grant G976, Western Data Processing Center, and 20th Century Fox [Consulting for \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\"]. It also includes materials such as monthly reports, proposals, and logs.","Series V. Presentations and Lectures, 1955-1964. This series consists of notes, outlines, slides, and other materials related to talks, presentations, and lectures given by Herrick. This includes talks and presentations given for organizations such as AIAA and IAU, covering topics such as differential correction, variation of parameters, planetary motions, and asteroids.","Series VI. Professional Societies, 1925-1973. This series includes materials related to professional societies in the space sciences, including, but not limited to: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Academy of Mechanics, American Academy of Sciences, American Rocket Society, British Interplanetary Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Materials include membership information, board of directors files, awards, annual meeting and conference notes, committees, reports, and journals.","Series VII. Publications, including Reprints and Drafts, 1932-1973. This series includes drafts and reprints of Herrick's many works, notably Astrodynamics, published in 1971-1972. The series also contains correspondence about Herrick's publications or his reviews of work published by others. There are also reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences.","Series VIII. Manuscript Calculations, 1948-1972. This series consists of calculations used in Herrick's studies of minor planets and objects. It includes materials such as shock waves of Icarus calculations, Project 15, minor planets and objects, perturbations, geophysical constraints and correction methods, collection of formulae, and ephemeral calculations.","Series IX. Computer Printouts, 1965-1973. This series includes early SH printouts, calculations, and Fortran computer runs such as Betulia ephemeris, Icarus ephemerides, Geographos, planetary coordinates, and two-body problems. Much of the computer printouts were created by Gary R. Smith, who received his Ph.D. in astrodynamics at UCLA in 1972 from Herrick.","Series X. Card Files, n.d. This series contains 4 sets card files with names and addresses of Herrick's contacts and bibliographies for celestial mechanics and astrodynamics.","Series XI. Subject Files, 1924-1981. This series includes Herrick's files on a variety of subjects. These materials reflect his professional and personal interests, including early computers, minor planets, space exploration, and piano music. Notable materials include Aeronutronic Systems Division-Ford files, Technical Study #3, mathematics publications, Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports, files on Betulia, Icarus, Geographos, and Jupiter IX and XII, Minor Planet Center Notices, and notes on navigation.","Series XII. Drawings and Calculations, 1949, n.d. This series consists of oversize drawings and calculations, including rectilinear tables, the nonimal system, and navigational drawings."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following publications have been separated to the Rare Book Collection:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHarbold, Norris B. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eThe Log of Air Navigation\u003c/title\u003e. San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1970.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eMechanics\u003c/title\u003e.Edited by N.C. Lind. 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Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuareproduction\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuareproduction\u003c/a\u003e. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/scuapublication\"\u003ehttp://bit.ly/scuapublication\u003c/a\u003e. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.","Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_acc4d01cb676f92a1d153a36c3fb189e\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eSamuel Herrick was an astronomer who specialized in celestial mechanics, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics. His papers consist of correspondence, notes, drafts of publications, files relating to students and courses, and reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences. Other highlights include Herrick's consulting files for projects such as NASA's Project Mercury, the film \"\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" (1951), and private industry. This collection is part of the Archives of American Aerospace Exploration at Virginia Tech.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Samuel Herrick was an astronomer who specialized in celestial mechanics, generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodynamics. His papers consist of correspondence, notes, drafts of publications, files relating to students and courses, and reprints of the works of others in astronomy and space sciences. Other highlights include Herrick's consulting files for projects such as NASA's Project Mercury, the film \"\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" (1951), and private industry. 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Page Papers, 1936/1983","Ms.1983.002","Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)","Astronomy","Science and Technology","Astronomers","The collection is open for research.","Thornton Leigh Page, son of Leigh and Mary Thornton Page, was born in New Haven, Connecticut on August 13, 1913. The younger Page attended school in New Haven (where his father served on the faculty of Yale University) before earning a bachelor's degree in physics from Yale in 1934, and being named a Rhodes Scholar. Page studied astrophysics at Oxford and completed a thesis on the spectra of planetary nebulae. He was elected to fellowship by the Royal Astronomical Society and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1938. That same year, Page married Helen Ashbee in Kent, England; the couple soon moved to Chicago, where Page had been hired as an instructor in astronomy. The Pages would have one child before divorcing in 1945.","Just prior to World War II, Page joined the Naval Ordnance Lab in Washington, DC, working on magnetic mines and countermeasures. He was later transferred to London and Hawaii, where he was working during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Page was enrolled as a lieutenant (junior grade) in the U. S. Naval Reserves and assigned to Pearl Harbor, serving in the minelaying operations-research group. Following the war, he was assigned to mine removal in the Inland Sea.","Page returned to the University of Chicago in 1946 and married Lou Williams, a geologist, in 1948. The couple would have two children. Page worked in the McDonald Obervatory, obtaining spectra of double galaxies. The results of his work contributed to early theories of dark matter. Page was promoted to assistant professor in 1947, but left the University of Chicago to accept appointment as deputy director of the U. S. Army's Operations Research Office. In 1958, he became head of Wesleyan University's astronomy department.","A 1961 automobile accident left Page blinded in one eye and led to a five-month hospital recovery. The Pages took extended leave and moved to California, where they co-edited the eight-volume Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy. Page worked on a number of projects in the following years: working on the space-tracking program at Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory, upgrading the reflector of Argentina's Cordoba Observatory, and lecturing to astronauts on astronomy at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center. He served as co-investigator of Apollo XVI's S201 experiment on far-ultraviolet observations.","Page resigned from Wesleyan in 1971, remaining in Houston to work in the Naval Research Laboratory. He retired in 1976 but continued to work, completing various public information works for NASA, teaching astronomy at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, and organizing a long-running Brown Bag Seminar at Johnston Space Center. Thornton L. Page died in Houston, Texas on January 2, 1996.","The guide to the Thornton L. Page Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Thornton L. Page Papers commenced and was completed in  June 2013.","This collection contains the papers of astronomer Thornton L. Page. Included in a biographical file is an autobiographical sketch; a memoir from a 1983 Rhodes Scholar Reunion in Oxford, England; a letter to The New Yorker; and a photograph of Page. The greater part of the collection is comprised of published versions (in the form of offprints and detachments) of various articles authored or co-authored by Page, relating to astronomy and general science topics, particularly education in the sciences. The collection also contains typescript drafts of several articles by Page and the texts of a few of his speeches.","The following monographs were removed from the collection to be added to the Rare Book Collection:","Page, Lou Williams and Thornton Page. Biology in Zero-G. Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlet 7. Washington, DC: NASA, 1977. (Call number: SCUA Large Tl788.4 P34.)","---. Cosmic Ray Dosage. Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlet 6. Washington, DC: NASA, 1977. (Call number: SCUA Large Tl788.4 P34.)","---. The Flight. Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlet 1. Washington, DC: NASA, 1977. (Call number: SCUA Large Tl788.4 P34.)","---. Gravitational Field. Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlet 4. Washington, DC: NASA, 1977. (Call number: SCUA Large Tl788.4 P34.)","---. Sun, Stars, In Between. Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlet 3. Washington, DC: NASA, 1977. (Call number: SCUA Large Tl788.4 P34.)","---. X-Rays, Gamma-Rays. Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlet 2. Washington, DC: NASA, 1977. (Call number: SCUA Large Tl788.4 P34.)","---. Zero-G Technology. Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlet 8. Washington, DC: NASA, 1977. (Call number: SCUA Large Tl788.4 P34.)","Page, Thornton and Lou Williams Page, eds. The Origin of the Solar System: Genesis of the Sun and Planets, and Life on Other Worlds. Macmillan Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy 3. New York: Macmillan, 1966. (Call number: SCUA Large QB501 S56.)","---. Space Science and Astronomy: Escape from Earth. Macmillan Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy 9. New York: Macmillan, 1976. (Call number: SCUA Large QB51 S68.)","---. Stars and Clouds of the Milky Way Galaxy: the Structure and Motion of Our Galaxy. Macmillan Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy 7. New York: Macmillan, 1968. (Call number: SCUA Large QB819 P27.)","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.","This collection consists of the papers of astronomer Thornton L. 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He was later transferred to London and Hawaii, where he was working during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Page was enrolled as a lieutenant (junior grade) in the U. S. Naval Reserves and assigned to Pearl Harbor, serving in the minelaying operations-research group. Following the war, he was assigned to mine removal in the Inland Sea.","Page returned to the University of Chicago in 1946 and married Lou Williams, a geologist, in 1948. The couple would have two children. Page worked in the McDonald Obervatory, obtaining spectra of double galaxies. The results of his work contributed to early theories of dark matter. Page was promoted to assistant professor in 1947, but left the University of Chicago to accept appointment as deputy director of the U. S. Army's Operations Research Office. In 1958, he became head of Wesleyan University's astronomy department.","A 1961 automobile accident left Page blinded in one eye and led to a five-month hospital recovery. The Pages took extended leave and moved to California, where they co-edited the eight-volume Sky and Telescope Library of Astronomy. Page worked on a number of projects in the following years: working on the space-tracking program at Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory, upgrading the reflector of Argentina's Cordoba Observatory, and lecturing to astronauts on astronomy at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center. He served as co-investigator of Apollo XVI's S201 experiment on far-ultraviolet observations.","Page resigned from Wesleyan in 1971, remaining in Houston to work in the Naval Research Laboratory. He retired in 1976 but continued to work, completing various public information works for NASA, teaching astronomy at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, and organizing a long-running Brown Bag Seminar at Johnston Space Center. Thornton L. Page died in Houston, Texas on January 2, 1996."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Thornton L. 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The greater part of the collection is comprised of published versions (in the form of offprints and detachments) of various articles authored or co-authored by Page, relating to astronomy and general science topics, particularly education in the sciences. The collection also contains typescript drafts of several articles by Page and the texts of a few of his speeches."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe following monographs were removed from the collection to be added to the Rare Book Collection:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePage, Lou Williams and Thornton Page. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eBiology in Zero-G\u003c/title\u003e. Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlet 7. Washington, DC: NASA, 1977. (Call number: SCUA Large Tl788.4 P34.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e---. \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eCosmic Ray Dosage\u003c/title\u003e. Apollo-Soyuz Pamphlet 6. Washington, DC: NASA, 1977. 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