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Early German rocketry in mid-1930s, especially wind tunnel research. Role of technical universities in such research on V-2 Rocket systems. Life in days leading up to and after the end of WWII. Coming to America through Operation Paperclip.

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…

Mack Shettles describes the immense complexity of managing the Saturn V program, emphasizing that success depended as much on disciplined program management as on engineering. He explains how Dr. Arthur Rudolph's control room used standardized…

Manufacturing problems and achievements with Saturn, contractor and vendor relations.

Manufacturing problems and achievements with Saturn, contractor and vendor relations.

Experience in V-2 developemerit during WW II in Gernany. Role played by foreign workers at Peenemuende. Notes on interview, not interview.

Experiences with test stand construction and design at White Sands.

Audio is of a presentation to American Institue of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), not an interview.