Post-Challenger Assessment of Space Shuttle Flight Rates and Utilization (1986)

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Appendix A Background l. April 2l, l986, Letter from Congressman Edward P. Bo Land 2. List of Briefers and Participants 3. Committee on NASA Scientific and Technological Program Reviews Membership 19

11 WMTTIN. tMtwsm • • MUM • C I WC f^VO Cj»^*o*»* • t *U ««•»••"< CMOJH Congress of the United /States flout if KipmtntKlDti Committee in 9ppropriattoni Washington, B£ 2*515 April 21, 1916 Honorable William E. Graham Acting Administrator National Aeronautics and Space Administration Washington, DC 20546 Dear Dr. Grahaai: I •• writing to request that NASA call upon the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on NASA Program Reviews, to examine the future implications and possible sceneries resulting from the tragic loss pf Challenger. Specifically, it is requested that the following information be provided by the NRC: 1. An assessment of the possible flight rate assuming a base • line of in 18-month delay in shuttle operations. The analysis should be based on the assumed flight rate and manifest most recently promulgated by NASA. 2. An assessment of the assumptions made in the above flight rate between payloads manifested on expendable launch vehicles and payloads manifested on the shuttle -- and whether such assumptions are reasonable. 3. An assessment of the impact on both flight rate and manifest of the existing three orbiter fleet with no fourth orbiter replacement. This assessment should include manifest requirements for both launch and 20

2l Honorable William E. Graham April 21, 1916 Fife Two 4. operation of a space station. The assessment should also be based on the assumption that the shuttle will fly at least one-third of the average number of commercial satellites launched over the manifest period. An estimate, based on available .data, of the various cost trade-offs of the above assumptions. I would appreciate your cooperation in forwarding this request and in assisting with the study. A report covering these issues should be available to the House Appropriations Committee by October 15, 1986. Jwarc lairman House Subcommittee on HUD- Independent Agencies

LIST OF bRIEFERS AND PARTICIPANTS NASA REPRESENTATIVES NASA Headquarters Jerry J. Fitts, Deputy Director, Customer Services, Office of Space Flight William Franklin, Technical Advisor, Launch and Landing Operations John P. Hodge, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Station Ron Kinsley, Program Manager, Shuttle Payloads Chester M. Lee, Director, Customer Services Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center A. A. Bishop, Deputy Manager, Mission Integration Office Gregory Harbauch, Manager, Schedules and Flow Management Office Elena M. Huffstetler, Manager, Flight Production Office Leonard S. Nicholson, Manager, STS Integration and Operations Officer John F. Kennedy Space Center R.. E. Heuser, Chief, Project Control and Contract Management Office Payload Projects Management and Operations Directorate Dick Lyon, Deputy Director, Payload Operations Russell Romanella, Technical Assistant, Payload Operations Robert B. Sieck, Director of Shuttle Operations Dick Thornburg, Manager, Shuttle Planning and Manifesting George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Jack M. Boze, Chief, Program Control Office, Office of Shuttle Projects Jim Kennedy, Chief, SSME Project Control 23

24 U.S. AIR FORCE Charles Cook, Deputy Assistant Secretary, USAF Space Transportation System OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET Jeff Struthers, Chief, Science and Space Programs Branch STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE OFFICE George Hess, Director, Survivability, Lethality, and Key Technologies Gordon Smith, Deputy Director INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES Arianespace Douglas Heydon, Executive Vice President and General Manager, U.S. Arianespace Diane Josephson, Director of Marketing, U.S. Arianespace Ford Aerospace Robert E. Berry, Vice President, Space Systems Operations General Dynamics William F. Rector, Vice President, Program Development Rudi Romero, Washington Office Hughes Communications Company John H. McElroy, Vice President for Technology Lockheed Space Operations Company and Subcontractors Carver G. Kennedy, Vice President, Space Programs, Morton Thiokol David L. Owen, Executive Vice President Herman E. Shipley, Director, Service Programs, Missiles, Space and Electronics Systems Group, Lockheed/Washington Office John Walker, Lockheed Wiley E. Williams, Vice President, Grumman Technical Services Division

25 Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace Richard Blakley, Manager, Program Development, Space Launch Systems Martin Marietta, External Tank Division Richard Davis, President, External Tank Project Thomas C. Wirth, Vice President, External Tank Project RCA Astro Electronics Jack Frohbieter, Division Vice President and General Manager Rockwell/Rocketdyne Robert Glaysher, Vice President for Shuttle Operations, Downey, California Leroy D. Solid, Director of Launch Operations, Kennedy Space Center, Florida Don L. Steelman, Director, Customer Representation, Washington, D.C.

COMMITTEE ON NASA SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRAM REVIEWS NORMAN HACKERMAN, Chairman, Scientific Advisory Board, .The Robert A. Welch Foundation, Houston, Texas, Chairman GEORGE W. CLARK, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachussetts EDGAR M. CORTRIGHT, Consultant, Yorktown, Virginia EUGENE E. COVERT, Professor of Aeronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts ALEXANDER H. FLAX, Home Secretary, National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C. THOMAS P. STAFFORD, Partner, Stafford, Burke and Hecker, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma JOHN W. TOWNSEND, JR., Senior Vice President, Planning and Operations, Fairchild Industries, Inc., Chantilly, Virginia JAMES A. VAN ALLEN, Retired head, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa ARDEN L. BEMENT, Vice President of Technical Resources, TRW, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, Ex Officio Member ROBERT H. KORKEGI, Director JoANN C. CLAYTON, Senior Staff Officer ANNA L. FARRAR, Administrative Assistant 27