Martin Sedlazek NASA collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
George Mason University
2400 Fenwick Library
Special Collections Research Center
Fenwick Library MS2FL
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Mieko Palazzo
Phone: (703) 993-2220
Fax: (703) 993-2669
Restrictions:

There are no access restrictions.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from the Martin Sedlazek NASA Collection must be obtained from Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Preferred citation:

Martin Sedlazek NASA Collection, C0293, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
6.0 linear feet (20 boxes)
Creator:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. and Sedlazek, Martin
Abstract:
The Martin Sedlazek NASA Collection includes educational and informational reports, white papers, memos, and press information from Martin Sedlazek's career in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including information on Saturn V, Apollo missions, and the Space Station.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Martin Sedlazek NASA Collection, C0293, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The Martin Sedlazek NASA Collection includes materials spanning from Sedlazek's 30-year career in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The collection consists of educational and informational reports, pamphlets, and booklets, white papers, memos, press information, photographs, and other documents. Most of the focus of the collections centers on materials pertaining to the Space Shuttle, the Space Station, Skylab, Saturn V, the Flight Telerobotic Servicer, and other documents such as briefings, letters, inter-administration and inter-department memoranda and reports, information on astronauts, international agreements, as well as plans and chronologies of NASA. The bulk of the collection originates from the mid 1960s through the 1970s.

Biographical / historical:

Martin F. Sedlazek held a 30-year tenure with the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) in both technical and administrative management positions that spanned the organization - from Headquarters in program policy-type positions (12 years) to the Field Center in hardware project management assignments (18 years). These included association with both manned and unmanned programs, such as Apollo and the Space Station, as well as the Delta Launch Vehicle and the PAM Project (a commercially developed upper stage used with the NASA shuttle and expendable launch vehicles to place satellites into geosynchronous orbit), respectively.

Coming to NASA with an electrical engineering background, Sedlazek contributed to many projects and efforts throughout his career there, and held responsibilities such as user integration, managing technical oversight of the PAM Project, managing of the resource elements of the Delta Launch Vehicle, and technical program control experience with the Apollo program. He also acted as Director of Resources Management in the Office of Applications for 6 years, and was responsible for R&D budget planning and execution, including OMB and Congressional budget process implementation, policy development, and administrative and personnel management. During this time as Director of Resources Management he also implemented a budget control system that made more effective use of under-utilized research funds.

Acquisition information:
Donated by Martin Sedlazek on October 24, 2016.
Processing information:

Processing completed by Amanda Brent in 2016. EAD markup completed by Amanda Brent in 2016.

Arrangement:

This collection was arranged in the original order it was received by the donor, with the exception of numbered materials arranged in numerical order when necessary.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard