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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thiel, Adolf K.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Bob Ward attempts to reach Dr. Adolf Thiel to ask about Wernher von Braun stories.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1998-09]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thiel, Adolf K. (Transcript)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Notes on a Phone Conversation with Dr. Adolf Thiel about Dr. Wernher von Braun and their time working together at Peenemünde and in the United States.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1998-10-01]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Thomson, Jerry]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Jerry Thomson recounts the evolution of the J-2 engine injector, explaining how early coaxial injector research at NASA Lewis Research Center influenced Pratt &amp; Whitney’s successful RL-10 injector design, which was then adapted and further refined by Rocketdyne during J-2 development. Although Rocketdyne initially pursued a simpler flat-face injector due to manufacturing concerns, persistent problems with face heating, wall overheating, and combustion instability ultimately led the company to adopt and improve the rigid porous mesh coaxial injector concept. Thomson emphasizes that this success resulted from combining Lewis research, RL-10 experience, and Rocketdyne’s engineering refinements rather than any single innovation. He also discusses the broader technical challenges of the Saturn propulsion program, including the F-1 engine’s severe combustion instability, whose solution required a nationwide collaboration involving NASA, Rocketdyne, universities, and industry. Through iterative changes—including injector baffles, modified spray patterns, altered fuel response characteristics, and elimination of fuel-rich pockets—the team developed stability techniques that became the standard for future liquid rocket engines. Thomson concludes by recalling later investigations into the J-2 augmented spark igniter (ASI) line failure after Apollo 6, describing the intensive multi-organization effort that identified environmental fatigue as the root cause, successfully recreated the failure on the ground, and resolved a problem critical to keeping the Apollo schedule on track.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1971-08-23]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tim Vaughn]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2026-03-20]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ohc_shi2_000096]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Todd May]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2024-12-13]]></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[Toftoy, Hazel]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Experiences in the early days of Gen. Toftoy&#039;s career in Huntsville from his wife. How he fought to keep the Army missile programs, how Toftoy almost resigned, Toftoy&#039;s involvement in the creation of Redstone Arsenal, and the transition from Army to NASA. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1972]]></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[Toftoy, Hazel  (Transcript)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Experiences in the early days of Gen. Toftoy&#039;s career in Huntsville.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1972]]></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[Tom Bryant]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Tom Bryant was born in SW Missouri. He came to Huntsville in 1963 via a CO-OP program. He graduated from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1966 with a degree in Engineering. His first job was with LTV working on the US Army&#039;s Lance Missile. He then took a job with Rocketdyne which was working on the F-1 engine for Apollo. In 1974, he started at Thiokol working on Solid Rocket Boosters. He worked on a variety of programs including projects for the US Air Force, GPS Satellites, the private industry Conestoga rocket, the MAXUS microgravity rocket, the US Army&#039;s Maverick and Hellfire Missiles, and he was Project Engineer on the AIM-9L Sidewinder missile. The SRBs he worked on flew on various Delta and Atlas rocket flights.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2017-9]]></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[Tom Channell]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2025-07-18]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Tom Dollman]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections, Huntsville, Alabama]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2025-03-28]]></dcterms:date>
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