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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shettles, Mack (Part 1)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Michael Shettles describes how NASA’s Saturn V program relied on innovative management and communication systems to coordinate the highly complex effort of building and launching the rocket. He explains that Marshall Space Flight Center developed an advanced teleconference network that connected NASA Headquarters, Marshall, Kennedy Space Center, Houston, and other locations, allowing engineers, managers, contractors, and specialists to participate equally in real-time discussions without extensive travel. Shettles emphasizes that the Saturn V program fostered a participative management style in which any engineer could raise technical concerns, regardless of rank, while meeting chairs ensured orderly discussion. He also discusses the use of document management systems, specifications, and visual charts to clarify reporting relationships, establish document precedence, track schedules, monitor component qualification, and identify problem areas across all stages of the program. These management tools enabled leaders such as Arthur Rudolph to oversee millions of individual parts without losing sight of critical issues, while &quot;tiger teams&quot; were assembled to resolve major development problems, particularly on the troubled S-II stage. Shettles concludes that the Saturn V management approach was unique because it integrated multiple contractors, NASA centers, functional organizations, and hardware elements into a single coordinated program, a level of organizational complexity he believed was unlike any other aerospace project of its time.]]></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[Sieber, Werner]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Early German rocketry in mid-1930s, especialy wind tunnel research. Role of technical unversities in such research. Engineering problems met and solutions on the V-2. Life in days immediately after end of WW II.]]></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[Sloop, John L.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1971-12-02]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sloop, John L.  (Transcript)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1971-12-02]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sneed, Bill]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Sneed, Bill  (Transcript)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Steihoff, Ernst]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[V-2 development in war time Germany. Participation in British Operation Backfire and American Operation Paperclip after WW II.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1971-08-19]]></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[Steihoff, Ernst  (Transcript)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[V-2 development in war time Germany. Participation in British Operation Backfire and American Operation Paperclip after WW II.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1971-08-19]]></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[Stewart, Donald (Part 1)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In this interview, Donald Stewart recounts the early development of Jack Conroy’s Pregnant Guppy aircraft and its critical role in NASA’s Saturn program. He explains how the concept evolved from modifying surplus Boeing Stratocruisers into oversized cargo aircraft capable of transporting rocket stages, and describes his own involvement beginning in 1961 with wind tunnel testing, engineering oversight, and coordination between NASA, the FAA, and Conroy’s team. Stewart recalls Conroy’s financial struggles, including flying the unfinished aircraft to Huntsville in 1962 with temporary wooden bracing to demonstrate its capabilities to Wernher von Braun and other Marshall Space Flight Center leaders, whose skepticism turned to support after a successful demonstration flight. He details the extensive challenges of obtaining FAA certification, preventing engineering shortcuts, conducting flight tests at Edwards Air Force Base, and overcoming resistance from NASA Headquarters, which initially opposed investing in air transportation. Stewart also highlights the contributions of key Marshall personnel such as Karl Heimburg, Julian Hamilton, and Jack Balch, describes how the Guppy’s success accelerated Saturn stage delivery by reducing transit times from weeks to hours, and notes that engineering data from the program later informed the U.S. Department of Defense’s development of the C-5A transport aircraft.]]></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[Stewart, Donald (Part 2)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[In this portion of the interview, Donald Stewart recounts a series of technical challenges, humorous incidents, and engineering decisions surrounding the development and operation of the Pregnant Guppy and Super Guppy transport aircraft for NASA’s Saturn program. He describes memorable flight test episodes—including a water ballast mishap that was mistaken for wing flutter, demanding FAA certification maneuvers, and debates over engineering choices such as replacing nylon with Teflon for cargo pallet bearings. Stewart also discusses transporting Saturn S-IV stages, emergency landings at military bases, structural testing, and the evolution of oversized cargo aircraft concepts. He credits Jack Conroy’s persistence, along with support from Karl Heimberg and Wernher von Braun, for overcoming widespread skepticism and bureaucratic resistance to the Guppy program. The interview concludes with Stewart reflecting on the Super Guppy’s design improvements, certification challenges, operational capabilities, later commercial uses, and Conroy’s lasting influence on specialized cargo aviation despite financial and organizational obstacles.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
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