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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pease, Robert]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In this interview, Bob Pease discusses the development, testing, and evolution of the Saturn J-2 rocket engine, focusing on the engineering challenges and lessons learned during the program. He explains the importance of designing the engine’s high-expansion nozzle to operate effectively at sea level for easier testing while still performing in the vacuum of space, and describes how altitude testing at facilities such as Santa Susanna and Tullahoma revealed differences in engine behavior and led to improvements. Pease details major development issues, including the ASI line fatigue failure, injector design decisions that led to the adoption of Rigi-Mesh technology, engine start problems, hydrogen turbopump challenges, and the need for modifications during concurrent development and production. He emphasizes that failures during testing were essential for improving reliability and that the J-2 program’s extensive qualification testing built confidence for future spaceflight systems. Pease also reflects on NASA’s collaboration with Rocketdyne and other organizations, the influence of leaders such as Wernher von Braun, and the management lessons from the J-2 program that informed later engine development efforts, including the Space Shuttle main engine.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pete Allen]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2024-09-06]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ohc_shi2_000030]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pete Rodriguez Part 1]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2024-06-07]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron&#039;s obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ohc_shi2_000048]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pete Rodriguez Part 2]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2024-08-23]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron&#039;s obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.]]></dcterms:rights>
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</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://oralhistory.uah.edu/items/show/335">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Petroff, P.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bob Ward interviews P. Petroff, asking about Wernher von Braun stories. Petroff relates a number of stories relating to von Braun&#039;s early life]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1999-06]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron&#039;s obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Petroff, Ralph]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Phone call between Bob Ward and Ralph Petroff. Ward asks Petroff about stories involving Wernher von Braun. Petroff&#039;s response is almost impossible to hear.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1999-05]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron&#039;s obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.]]></dcterms:rights>
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</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://oralhistory.uah.edu/items/show/354">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Petroff, Ralph]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Conversation with Ralph Petroff on his encounters with Wernher von Braun. Petroff recounts von Braun&#039;s somewhat mythic status as well as the strife in early NASA between the Germans and the Jews.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1999-06-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron&#039;s obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[spc_ward_000019_02]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Petroff, Ralph (Transcript)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Transcript with notes on a Conversation with Ralph Petroff on his encounters with Wernher von Braun. Petroff recounts von Braun&#039;s somewhat mythic status as well as the strife in early NASA between the Germans and the Jews.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1999-06-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron&#039;s obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Phillip Franklin]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Phillip Franklin was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He started his career at Southern Research Institute before he joined Thiokol in 1984. He worked in Independent Research and Development. He was a Propellant Research Chemist who worked in the Propulsion Group as a part of the Formulation Team. He admired the strong safety culture he observed at Thiokol during his tenure. He left the company in 1990.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2018-4]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron&#039;s obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.]]></dcterms:rights>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pickering, William]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Phone call between Dr. William Pickering and Bob Ward on encounters Pickering had with Wernher von Braun. Transcript starts at 04:00 of the audio.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1998-09-16]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron&#039;s obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.]]></dcterms:rights>
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