CONVAIR AEROSPACE DIVISION SPACE FUTURE The Convair Aerospace Division, supported by General Dynamics corporate management, is dedicated to developing a reusable launch vehicle the space shuttle booster. Our technical team has been working on this concept for the last 11 years in preparation for the time when the state-of-the-art was sufficiently advanced to permit developing a space shuttle that can significantly reduce the cost of transporting payloads to orbit. The Centaur technical team will continue to study the economical adaptation of Centaur to the Orbit-to-Orbit Shuttle, and if successful in our proposed Phase B study we will assist NASA in defining and developing the Research Applications Module. CONVAIR AEROSPACE DIVISION SPACE FUTURE DEDICATED TO / DEVELOP THE SPACE SHUTTLE BOOSTER - ECONOMICALLY AND RELIABLY / CONTINUE EVOLUTION OF CENTAUR FOR USE AS AN ORBIT-TO-ORBIT SHUTTLE ECONOMICALY AND RELIABLY / DEFINE AND DEVELOP A RESEARCH APPLICATIONS MODULE · FOR MULTI PURPOSE EXPERIMENTS GRUMMAN AEROSPACE CORPORATION Mr. Teague, Mr. Fulton, Gentlemen: It is a pleasure for Grumman to have the opportunity to sit with you again this year to discuss the Nation's space program as we see it. We are particularly pleased to have with us the new members of the Committee. We hope that before the day is out, we will be able to provide for them truly useful first hand information. I'd like to start with a few words of explanation concerning the Grumman organization. Figure No. 1 shows the structure of the Grumman Corporation and its several subsidiaries. We who are involved in the space effort are in Grumman Aerospace and this is essentially the organization which over the years has produced military and civil aircraft as well as the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory and the Lunar Module. A subsidiary which is new this year is Grumman Ecosystems which is a small organization devoted to the surveying and study of earth resources, applying aerospace technology, but operating at this time only with aircraft. Figure No. 2 shows the organization of Grumman Aerospace. I would like to call to your attention that since talking to you last time, Mr. Evans has moved to become Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Zarkowsky has assumed the office of President. For the remainder of the discussion, I will be speaking principally from the viewpoint of space programs. However, I would point out that these operations within Grumman Aerospace do involve a significant part of the other organizational groups shown on this figure. Figure 3 describes the grouping of responsibilities within the space programs organization. Dr. Tripp, whom you met before, has been Director of the Lunar Module Program for some time. In view of the declining activity on this program and in order to make most efficient use of our resources, we have, since talking to you last, also gave him responsibility for the OAO which is a program drawing to completion; the High Energy Astronomy Observatory, which is a program in the Phase B study phase; and the Large Space Telescope Program, which is a study group anticipating the initiation of Phase A studies. I would also like to introduce Larry Mead who has for the past fifteen months been in charge of the Grumman proposal and study efforts for the Earth-to-Orbit Shuttle. You might also note that this has involved an interesting amount of activity in the international field. I would like to have you meet two others who have been deeply involved in the Grumman Shuttle effort, Mr. Tom Kelly, who I think some of you will remember as a veteran of the Lunar Module Program and Mr. Fred Raymes, who has been in charge of the NASA funded Shuttle studies. We have a very small group studying potential space programs for the future under the direction of Mr. Howard Wright. |