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NASA Archives Program 

Robert C. Seamans, Jr. Collection 

Series Title: Seamans, Robert C., Jr. 

Extent: 3 feet, 5 inches 

Box Count: 10.1 boxes 

Inclusive dates: 1955 – 2010 

Location: 10/3/5 – 10/3/6

Transfer #: 

Accession Number: 

Disposition Authority:

Media Type: Textual, photographic, and electronic 

Access Restrictions 

None. 

Use Restrictions 

Most government records are in the public domain, however, this series includes commercial 

materials, such as newspaper clippings, that may be subject to copyright restrictions. 

Researchers should contact the copyright holder for information. 

Copy Status: Research, Use and Preservation 

Preferred Citation

 

Robert C. Seamans, Jr. Collection, NASA Headquarters Historical Reference Collection.

Series Description 

This series consists of files of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 

Associate Administrator (1960-1965) and Deputy Administrator (1965-1968) Robert C. 

Seamans, Jr. Specifically, this series contains material from both tenures including 

correspondence files; oral histories; meetings files; speeches; congressional briefings; Apollo 

program; interagency relations between NASA and the Department of Defense (DoD); Gemini 

program; and Seamans’ later role as Secretary of the Air Force.
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General Notes 

Robert Seamans’ personal papers are held by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. 

Speeches held by the HRC have been digitized and placed on the public DMS. Seamans’ oral 

histories held in the HRC have been digitized and are currently available upon request. 

Keywords: Office of the Administrator; space policy; Department of Defense (DoD); 

interagency cooperation; space exploration; Apollo program; program management; space 

applications; personnel management; Gemini program; Secretary of the Air Force; Apollo 

Applications Program (AAP); communications satellites; computers; contract management; 

international cooperation; NASA budget FY1963-1967; international cooperation; NASA 

organization; manned space flight; Comsat Corporation; Saturn launch vehicles; Goddard Space 

Flight Center (GSFC); space sciences; Electronics Research Center (ERC); nuclear power; 

NASA-contractor cost reduction program; Eugene M. Emme; James E. Webb; John F. Kennedy; 

Walter F. Boone; Earl D. Hilburn; George E. Mueller; Hugh L. Dryden; T. Keith Glennan; D. 

Brainerd Holmes; John M. Logsdon; Homer E. Newell; Frederick I. Ordway, III; and William D. 

Putnam. 

Box and folder list 

Box 1 

Photographs 

Biography 

Exit Interviews

Post-NASA 1

Box 2

Post-NASA 2

Personal Papers 

Appointment – 1960 

Manned Lunar Landing Decision, January – May 1961 and After 

Appointment as Deputy Administrator Dec. 11, 1965 

Logsdon Interview – Lunar Landing Decision, 1961 

JFK Library Interview – Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr. Assoc. Admin. 

Mercury Interview Notes – 9-1-65 

Gemini Interview – Seamans, 1966 May 26 

Seamans Interview 6 December 1966 Decision Case-Studies 

Interview July 20, 1967 – Gemini 7/6 Secretariat

Interview w/Don Neff, Time, Inc., (2/12/69) 

1969 June 24 Sherrod Interview Life Contract, Apollo 1 Fire 

1969 July 11 – “LOR” Intervew 

Chronological Reading File – (7) June – Dec 1960 

Chronological Reading File – (10) Jan. – June 1961 

Chronological Reading File – (13) – July – December 1961 

Box 3 

U.S. Air Force Oral History Program Interview 

Resignation Effective January 5, 1968 
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Chronological Reading File – (18) – Jan – June 1962

Chronological Reading File – (9) – July – December 1962

Chronological Reading File – (30) – Jan – June 1963

Box 4

National Space Program – “White Paper” (drafts, etc. June 1963) – unclassified

Chronological Reading File – (11) – July – December 1963

Chronological Reading File – (12) – Jan – June 1964

Chronological Reading File – (13) – July – December 1964

Chronological Reading File – (14) January & February 1965

Chronological Reading File – (15) March & April 1965

Chronological Reading File – (16) – May & June 1965

AD – Chron 1/1/67 – 6/30/67

Box 5

AD – Chron. – Seamans – 7/1/67 – 1/5/68

1st Annual Goddard Lecture of the National Space Club – March 15, 1966 – Wash., D.C.

April 1, 1966, Frontiers of Space Symposium, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

IEEE Aerospace Systems Conference, Seattle, Wash, July 12, 1966

Federal Executive Board, Seattle, Wash. July 12, 1966

July 14, 1966, World Affairs Council, Los Angeles, California

September 8, 1966, AIAA/IES/ATM Space Simulation & Aerodynamics Deceleration Systems 

Conf., Houston, Texas

The National Space Program – A Progress Report (12-4-62)

October 5, 1966, LRC Inspection

New York Board of Trade NYC – October 27, 1966

November 2, 1966, Aerospace Res. Appl. Center, Indiana U., Bloomington

Seamans before Committee on Science & Astro. H. of R. March 1, 1967

Committee on Science and Astro. – H. of R. March 2, 1967

March 17, 1967 dedication at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia

Before Comm on Science & Astro., H. of R. (April 10, 1967)

Before Senate Comm on Aero & Sp. Sci – April 18, 1967

Before Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Senate) April 13, 1967

May 1, 1967, American Astronautical Society, Dallas, Texas

May 5, 1967 GWU/FBA Inst. On Govt. Contracts, Washington, D.C.

Before House Subcomm on NASA Oversight – May 10, 1967

May 12, 1967, dedication of Aerospace Lab. New York University

Apollo Accident 204 1/27/67 to May, 1967

2ND INT. Buoy Technology Symposium – Washington, D.C. – September 19, 1967

September 29, 1967 1st Ann. William Randolph Lovelace Lecture

October 5, 1967 News Conference, Washington, D.C.

Box 6

October 24, 1967, Aero Club, Washington, D.C.

Subcommittee on Oceanography, Com. On Merchant Marine & Fisheries, H.R., December 11, 1967

Remarks, NASA Dinner, April 10, 1968

March 21, 1969, Air Force Association, Houston, Texas

1969 May 15 Armed Forces Day Lun. New Orleans, La
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1969 June 17 Am. Astro. Soc. Denver, Col. Planning for Strategic Deterrence in the 70s

1968, August, The Management of a National Space Program, Vienna – UN

1969 Sept. Air Force/Space Digest Balance: The Key to National Security

1969 Minta-Martin Lecture

1969 Sept. 17 Press Conference, Space Task Group statement

1969, Sept. 23, USAF Mgt. Awards Luncheon, Washington, DC

1969 Oct. 23 AIAA Honors Night Banquet, Anaheim, Calif.

1969, Sept. – Oct. Ordnance

1970 Sept. 2 – Post Apollo Planning Interview by John Logsdon

1970 November, Air Force Magazine

1970, March 11, Senate Armed Services Committee, FY71, Presentation

1971 April 20 National Space Club

1971 May 12 San Antonio, Texas Chamber of Commerce “SPUTNIK”

1972 July 18 Aero Cub of Washington, D.C.

1975 10 Nov National Academy of Engineering, D.C.

1978 – “Energy’s Challenge to Aerospace” – Seamans & Ordway

1977 – “The Apollo Tradition” – Seamans & Ordway

Seaman’s “Aiming at Targets”

Correspondence – 1967

Chron File 7/65 – 8/65

Box 7

Chronological Reading File (18) September & October 1965

Chronological Reading File (19) November to December 1965

Public Relations – Dec 1965-1966

Public Relations/Articles – May 1965 – Dec 1966

Public Relations/Articles – Jan 6, 1967 thru Jan 1968

Public Relations/Recommendations – Jan 66 – Jan 67

Education – January 1966 – Feb 1968

Committees – October 1966

Meetings Social/Speak – Aug 1965 – Dec 1965

Meetings Social/Speak – Jan 66 – Dec 66

Meetings – Social/Speak – January 1967 – Dec 1967

Box 8

Selective Correspondence – 1966

Correspondence – 1966

Chron File – January 1966

Chron Files – March 1966

Chron File – April 1966

Chron Files – May 1966

Chron File – June 1966

Box 9

Chron Files – July 1966

Chron Files – August 1966

Chron Files – September 1966

Chron Files – November 1966
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Chron Files – December 1966

Correspondence – 1968

List of Speeches

Richmond Chamber of Commerce (1-12-61)

Role of Higher Education in Space Age (3-8-61)

April, 1961 – Testimony – House Comm Sci & Astro.

April 20, 1961, Am. Soc. of Newspaper Editors, Washington, DC

April 28, 1961, Engineering Show, Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

American Rocket Society, Boston – May 3, 1961

May 16, 1961, Rockefeller Seminar, Williamsburg, Virginia

August 10, 1961, VPI Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia

August 29, 1961 – Aerospace Corporation – Los Angeles, California

October 18, 1961 – Sixteenth Engineering Conf. of the Technical Assn. of Pulp and Paper Industry

“Nat’l Space Program” (12-11-61)

1961 December 15, Industrial College of the Armed Forces

Box 10

“Nat’l Space Program” (1-18-62)

Feb. 27, 1962 – Testimony – House Space Committee

March 8, 1962 – Reliability in Systems IAS Propulsion Meeting

Subcomm No. 1 of House Comm on Science and Astronautics (3-28-62)

News Conference on S-51 27 April 1962

May 24, 1962 – International Cooperation – American Ordnance Assn. – San Francisco, California

June 8, 1962 – The Iowa State Bar Association – Cedar Rapids, Iowa

June 16, 1962, Commencement, Wentworth Institute, Boston

1962 Senate

State. To Comm. on Aeronautical and Space Sci’s Senate

July 17, 1962 – Rocket Society – Cleveland, Ohio

September 20, 1962 – I.A.S. Technical Manpower Utilization Conference

October 1, 1962 – Annual Dinner of the United Hospital Fund of New York

November 13, 1962 – New England Regional Conf. on Science, Technology and Space – Boston, 

Massachusetts

The National Space Program – A Progress Report

S. Com. on Military Ops. – 8/29/62

The National Space Program – Progress and Opportunities (10 Jan. 1963)

2nd NASA-Industry Program Plans Conf., Washington, D.C. Feb. 11-12, 1963

Committee on Science and Astronautics (2-25-63)

Committee on Science and Astronautics (3-5-63)

Subcomm. On Applications and Tracking House – 19 March 1963

Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight (3-21-63)

Subcom. on Space Science and Adv. Research and Technology (4-1-63)

Subcommittee on Applications & Tracking & Data (4-2-63)

Subcommittee on Applications & Tracking & Data (4-9-63)

Amer. Soc. of Newspaper Editors Apr. 20, 1963

Comm. on Aeronautical & Space Sci. Senate – 24 April 1963

On record interview, May 20, 1963 w/Hines, Deakin, Kentera, and terHorst

No Scientist Monopoly by NASA – May 25, 1963
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Box 11

Side Benefits to Be Many May 26, 1963

Subcomm on Legislation – Joint Comm. on Atomic Energy – 16 October 1963

Chamber of Commerce Albuquerque, New Mexico – November 19, 1963

Committee on Science and Astronautics HR 2/5/64

Statement before Senate Committee on Aeronautics & Space Sciences – March 5, 1964

Government and Industry – 5-1-64

May 6, 1964, AM, Astronautical Soc., New York

Role of Space ion Expansion of Human Knowledge – 6-30-64

Veterans of Foreign Wars – Cleveland, Ohio August 24, 1964

October 8, 1964, Apollo Luncheon, Soc. of Automotive Engineers, Los Angeles, California

January 5, 1965, NATO Defense College, Paris, France

NASA FY1966 Budget Briefing – January 23, 1965

Comm. on Science & Astronautics – House of Representatives – 1965

Senate Comm. on Aero & Space Sciences Mar. 8, 1965

March 29, 1965, remarks at Mayor Wagner’s reception in NYC

Comm. on Aero & Space Sciences – U.S. Senate – March 30, 1965

April 25, 1965, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.

May 19, 1965 International Telemetering Conference, Washington, D.C.

September 29, 1965, Mortgage Bankers Assoc. of America, Chicago, Ill.

November 3, 1965 Res. & Dev. Symposium, Nat. Sec. Industrial Assoc.

November 17, 1965, National Space Club, Washington, D.C.

AIAA Honors Convocation – January 25, 1966, N.Y., N.Y.

House of Representatives – Feb. 18, 1966

U.S. Senate – Feb. 28, 1966