NASA Lunar and Planetary Missions Board Series

This series includes materials related to Findlay's service as Chair of NASA's Lunar and Planetary Missions Board (LPMB). The LPMB was formed in 1967, and was composed of a multi-disciplinary group of experts whose charge was to advise NASA on the planning and conduct of all missions to the Moon and planets, including the manned Apollo missions to the Moon. The LPMB met almost monthly between March 1967 and August 1970. In October 1971 correspondence, Findlay, in his capacity as chair, thanks all board members for their service, since the "LPMB and its various panels have now given place to the new NASA advisory structure, so that our work together has ended." The collection includes meeting minutes; general correspondence and papers; correspondence and papers related to the Lunar, Mars, Mercury, Outer Planets, and Venus Panels of the LPMB; correspondence and papers of the NASA Planetary Working Group; and contractual agreements between NASA and Associated Universities Inc. for NRAO staff support to the LPMB. Also included in this series are materials related to Findlay's participation, as chair of the LPMB, in the meetings of NASA's Science and Technology Advisory Council, 1968-1970. Findlay continued to gather material related to LPMB issues and to the cancellation of the Viking program, and presented a very brief history of the Board and its activities at a 1981 NASA meeting. The series includes material from 1965-1981.

Papers of John W. Findlay

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1981

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