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Melvin N. Gough Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-057
Abstract
The Melvin N. Gough collection spans from 1919 to 1971 and includes a wide variety of materials reflecting Gough's career as a test pilot, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) administrator, and flight safety investigator. Types of materials include NACA and Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) reports and documents, articles, correspondence, notes and speeches, and newspaper and magazine clippings.
Dates:
1919 - 1971
Christopher C. Kraft Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1985-001
Abstract
The collection consists of approximately 28 cu. ft. of manuscripts, particularly NACA and NASA reports and documents, meeting notes and agendas, and research materials. A later donation contains the manuscript for 2001 Kraft's autobiography.
Dates:
1941 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1982
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- Gilruth, Robert R. (Robert Rowe), 1913- 1
- Gough, Melvin N. (Melvin Neilson), 1906-1994 1
- Langley Aeronautical Laboratory 1
- Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (1973-) 1
- Manned Spacecraft Center (1961-1973) (U.S.) 1
- Project Apollo (U.S.) 1
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- Soule, Hartley A. (Hartley Aiken), 1904-1988 1
- United States. Civil Aeronautics Board 1
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970) 1
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