2 Mai 1961 Jahr - Established

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NASA Associate Administrator Robert C. Seamans, Jr., established the Ad Hoc Task Group for a Manned Lunar Landing Study, to be chaired by William A. Fleming of NASA Headquarters . The study was expected to produce the following information:
• All tasks associated with the mission
• Interdependent time-phasing of the tasks
• Areas requiring considerable technological advancements from the current state of the art
• Tasks for which multiple approach solutions were advisable
• Important action and decision points in the mission plan
• A refined estimate by task and by fiscal year of the dollar resources required for the mission
• Refined estimates of in-house manpower requirements, by task and by fiscal year
• Tentative in-house and contractor task assignments accompanying the dollar and manpower resource requirements.
The study began on May 8 and the final report was submitted on June 16.
Guidelines served as a starting point for the study:
• The manned Iunar landing target date was 1967.
• Intermediate missions of multiman orbital satellites and manned circum-lunar missions were desirable at the earliest possible time.
• Man's mission on the moon as it affected the study wa s to be determined by the Ad Hoc Task Group-i.e ., the time to be spent on the lunar surface and the tasks to be performed while there.
• In establishing the mission plan, the use of the Saturn C-2 launch vehicle was to be evaluated as compared with an alternative launch vehicle having a higher thrust first stage and C-2 upper-stage components.
• The mission plan was to include parallel development of liquid and solid propulsion leading to a Nova vehicle [400,000 pounds in earth orbit] and should indicate when the decision should be made on the final Nova configuration.
• Nuclear-powered launch vehicles should not be considered for use in the first manned lunar landing mission.
• The flight test program should be laid out with enough launchings to meet the needs of the program considering the reliability requirements.
• Alternative approaches should be provided in critical areas-e.g., upper stages and mission modes.

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