Box 1
Container
Contains 29 Results:
Apollo 8: Unused obituary drafted by William Safire for Richard Nixon. Mission insignia
File — Box: 1
Identifier: 1
Dates:
1945-2011
Box 1
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Dr. Kenneth J. Hartman files are organized in three series. Series I: Subject Files (Boxes 1-3); Series II: Astronaut (biographical) Files (Boxes 3-4); and Series III: Astronauts? Wives and Women in Space (Boxes 4-5), concluding with miscellaneous materials in Box 5. Many of the file folders bear KJH annotations and have been retained. Nearly all photocopies and computer printouts have been annotated by KJH.
By 1962, Hartman was employed by North American Aviation, Inc., and became senior research engineer for crew performance and training in the manned space (Apollo) program. His assignment, he wrote, was to keep the design engineers from killing the astronauts with poorly or badly designed equipment and procedures. Most of his contributions to Human Factors Engineering were classified. The Apollo program came to an abrupt end in 1975.
KJH collected the present files long after retirement. Many were derived from articles, books, and web sites, with pages photocopied or...
Dates:
1945-2011
KJH college records (includes photographs of the Iowa campus in 1946-1947) and professional activities including formulas for quantifying variables that affect the sales of farm implement dealers (for John Deere) and a method of estimating chi square, 1946-1947
File — Box: 1
Identifier: 1
Dates:
1946-1947
KJH MA thesis, "A Study of Reliability in the Determination of Effort Rating." SUI, carbon copy, 1947
File — Box: 1
Identifier: 1
Dates:
1947
KJH essays. Background on his WWII service, particularly in Antwerp, Belgium in April 1944 when that city was under German V-1 and V-2 bombardment. Overview of his work with the early astronauts as Senior Engineer, Research, Crew Performance & Training, f, 1944
File — Box: 1
Identifier: 1
Dates:
1944
Astronauts: Summary biographical information from a variety of sources: Fallen. Notes on the deaths of astronauts. Summary sheet by KJH on Apollo 1 fire
File — Box: 1
Identifier: 1
Dates:
1945-2011