Guide to the Robert P. Hogan Collection, 1969-1997
Guide prepared by Lynne S. Vieth
NASA Ames History Office
NASA Ames Research Center
Mail Stop 207-1
Moffett Field, California 94035
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Guide to the Robert P. Hogan Collection, 1969-1997
NASA Ames History Office
NASA Ames Research Center
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- NASA Ames History Office
- NASA Ames Research Center
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- Moffett Field, CA 94035
- Phone: (650) 604-1032
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- Collection processed by:
- Lynne S. Vieth
- Date Completed:
- April 2006
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Guide to the Robert P. Hogan Collection
Date (inclusive): 1969-1997
Collection Number: PP04.12
Creator:
Hogan, Robert P.
Extent:
Number of containers: 8
Volume: 3 cubic feet
Repository:
Ames Research Center,
Ames History Office
Moffett Field, California 94035
Abstract: The Robert P. Hogan Collection includes project proposals,
technical documents, reports, correspondence, publications, photographs, and other visual
media documenting Hogan’s contributions to the Pioneer Project and the Life Sciences
Directorate during his career at the NASA Ames Research Center. The collection is
chronologically arranged in two series that reflect these two phases of Hogan’s engineering
and administrative activities.
Language:
English
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright does not apply to United States government records. For non-government
material, researcher must contact the original creator.
Preferred Citation
NASA Ames History Office, NASA Ames Research Center. Moffett Field, California. PP04.12, Robert P. Hogan Collection 1969-1997,
[Container number] : [Folder number]. [Identification of item]. [Date, if available].
Separated Material
One book has been removed and placed in the NASA Ames History Office Reference
Collection: Souza, K., Hogan, R., & Ballard, R. (Eds.) (1995).
Life into space: Space life sciences experiments. NASA Ames
Research Center.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Robert P. Hogan in September 2004.
Biographical Note
Robert P. "Bob" Hogan was born October 16, 1939 in Huntington Park,
California near Los Angeles. While working full time for the Autonetics division of North
American Aviation, he received a BS in Electrical Engineering from West Coast University in
1965. In 1969, he went to work for Hughes Aircraft and received his Masters in Systems
Engineering from Cal-State Fullerton in 1970. He joined NASA Ames Research Center in 1970 as
an in-plant representative for the Pioneer 10/11 Project at TRW, Manhattan Beach.
During his assignment to the Pioneer Project led by Charlie Hall, Hogan provided support to
the 11 Principal Investigators during construction, integration, testing, and launching of
the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft on missions to Jupiter and Saturn. Following the launch of
Pioneer 11 in 1973, he relocated permanently to Moffett Field and served in the Pioneer
Operations branch during the Jupiter Encounters in 1973 and 1974. He served as Flight
Director for the Pioneer 11 Saturn Encounter in 1979.
In 1979, Hogan joined the Life Sciences Directorate and served as Deputy Division Chief for
Shuttle Payloads Office under Bill Berry. During the period 1985 to 1996, this office flew
over 40 payloads involving animal experiments on the Shuttle and the Spacelab Module. Hogan
was also assigned responsibility for the redesign of the Research Animal Holding Facility
(RAHF) and the General Purpose Work Station (GPWS) which flew successfully on three Spacelab
missions.
In 1996, Hogan was appointed Chief of the Space Projects Division and provided the manpower
for the development of the Space Station Biological Research Project (SSBRP) and the
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) as well as the Lunar Prospector
mission and the Kepler Discovery Mission scheduled for launch in 2007. The division managed
advanced project development for the Center and submitted numerous proposals.
The Space Projects Division was abolished in 2004 with the formation of the Code P Projects
Directorate. Hogan served as Chief Engineer for Code P until his retirement in January 2005.
Hogan has received numerous awards including the Exceptional Service Medal for the Pioneer
11 Saturn Encounter and the Outstanding Leadership Medal for the Spacelab Life Sciences One
Mission.
Hogan has been married for 48 years to his high school sweetheart, Judy, and has two
daughters and two grandsons.
Indexing Terms
The following terms may be used to index this collection.
Personal Name
Hogan, Robert P.
Corporate Name
Ames Research Center
Subjects
Pioneer Project
Pioneer (Space probes)
Space biology
Spacelab Program
Pioneer space probes
Pioneer 10 space probe
Pioneer 11 space probe
Pioneer Venus spacecraft
spaceborne experiments
spacecraft environments
Spacelab
space laboratories
Geographic Name
Moffett Field
(Calif.)
Scope and Content
The Robert P. Hogan Collection (3 cubic feet) includes technical documents, reports,
correspondence, publications, photographs, and other visual media documenting Hogan’s
contributions to the Pioneer Project and the Life Sciences Directorate during his career at
the NASA Ames Research Center. The collection is chronologically arranged in two series that
reflect the two phases of Hogan’s engineering and administrative activities between 1970 and
1996. Because Hogan served as Flight Director of the Pioneer 11 Saturn Encounter in 1979,
this milestone in his career is particularly well represented in Series I. Series II, which
comprises the bulk of the collection, primarily documents the successes and failures of the
Research Animal Holding Facility (RAHF) Project and the Rhesus Project in the Space Life
Sciences Program.
The first series, Pioneer Project, contains program overviews, ephemera, news items,
technical documents, slides, and photographs mainly documenting Hogan’s involvement in the
construction, integration, testing, and launching of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft
missions to Jupiter and Saturn. Pioneer 10 was launched on March 2, 1972 and Pioneer 11 on
April 5, 1973 with the groundbreaking goals of flying through the asteroid belt and
gathering data on Jupiter’s atmosphere, magnetosphere, magnetic fields, radiation belts,
moons, and the planet’s interior. Pioneer 11 was further designed to continue on to Saturn,
which it reached in 1979. The Pioneer 11 Saturn Encounter resulted in the first close-up
images of the planet’s mythic moons and rings, as well as in the exploration of its
magnetosphere and magnetic fields.
The second series, Space Life Sciences Program, contains mainly project proposals, reports,
correspondence, memoranda, photographs, and technical drawings pertaining to Hogan’s
involvement between 1985 and 1996 in three interrelated areas of biomedical research
regarding the effects of space travel on animals and plants: the Research Animal Holding
Facility (RAHF) Project; the Rhesus Project; and Spacelab missions SL-3 and SLS-1.
Arrangement of the Robert P. Hogan Collection
The papers are arranged into two series:
- I. Pioneer Project, 1969-1997 (19 folders, 3 log books).
- II. Space Life Sciences Program, 1985-1996 (34 folders).
Boxes 1-3, 8.
PP04.12-1
I. Pioneer Project
1969-1997.
Scope and Content Note
This series is arranged into two subseries documenting Hogan’s successive assignments
during the ten years he served as the NASA Ames representative at TRW Defense and Space
Systems Group, a member of the operations branch during the Pioneer 10 and 11 Jupiter
Encounters, and ultimately Flight Director for the Pioneer 11 Saturn Encounter.
The first subseries consists of one folder of miscellaneous documents and photographs
providing program overviews of the Pioneer Project.
The second subseries focuses on various aspects of Pioneer 10 and 11 in several
formats, from the ephemera, news clippings, and newsreels testifying to the scientific
success and public popularity of these missions to the slides and photographs depicting
novel images of the planets Jupiter and Saturn. Of particular note are the documents and
photographs that provide detailed information on the planning and preparation of the
dedicated team that made the Pioneer 11 Saturn Encounter possible.
Boxes 4-7.
PP04.12-2
II. Space Life Sciences Program
1985-1996.
Scope and Content Note
This series is arranged into three subseries documenting Hogan’s involvement as Chief
of the Research Animal Holding Facility (RAHF) Project Office and Deputy Chief of the
Space Life Sciences Payloads Office (SLSPO) in the research, construction, testing, and
deployment of RAHFs on successive shuttle missions.
The first subseries documents the phases of the RAHF Project, from the establishment of
design requirements for the responsible use of animal subjects in space research to the
preliminary design review and ultimately the critical design review, which addressed the
RAHF malfunctions occurring during the STS-51B/Spacelab-3 mission in 1985.
The second subseries documents the Rhesus Project (also known as the LPF or Large
Primate Facility Project), a joint undertaking between the NASA Ames Research Center
(ARC) and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) of France. The project plans,
supporting project data, Rhesus Research Facility (RRF) requirements, termination plan,
and final report trace this joint effort to study the biomedical changes in rhesus
monkeys during spaceflight.
The third subseries primarily concerns two Spacelab Missions, the STS-51B/Spacelab-3 on
board the Space Shuttle Challenger in April-May 1985 and the STS-40/Spacelab Life
Sciences-1 on board the Space Shuttle Columbia in June 1991. Of note are the follow-up
reports, reviews, and memoranda thoroughly documenting the successes and failures of the
first RAHF installed in Spacelab-3, as well as the in-flight photographs of the seven
astronauts performing their experiments in the SLS-1.
Box 1, Folder 1
Project Overviews
1973-1980
Box 1, Folder 2
Scrapbook Items
1972-1974
Box 1, Folder 5
Pioneer 11 Newsreels
29 August 1979
Box 2, Folder 1
Technical Documents
1969-1981
Box 2, Folder 2
Lou Dickerson F/G Handbook
1970-1972
Box 2, Folder 3
Pioneer F/G Log Books [housed in flat box #8]
1971-1973
Box 2, Folder 4
Pioneer Talk Slides
1974-1975
Box 2, Folder 6
Pioneer 10/11 Slides and Notes
1973-1978
Box 2, Folder 7
Pioneer 11--Saturn Encounter
1979
Box 2, Folder 8
Pioneer 11--Sequence of Events/Tracking Plans
1979
Box 3, Folder 1
Pioneer 10/11 Photos
1973-1974 [printed 1978]
Box 3, Folder 2-3
Pioneer 11/Saturn Photos
1979
Box 3, Folder 4-5
Pioneer 11/Saturn Proofs
1979
Box 3, Folder 6
Pioneer 11 Polaroids
probably 1979
II. Space Life Sciences Program
Box 4, Folder 1-6
Preliminary Design Review
1985-1986
Box 4, Folder 7
Review Items Dispositions
1985
Box 4, Folder 8
Review Items Dispositions
1986
Box 5, Folder 1
Review Items Dispositions
1986
Box 5, Folder 2-4
Critical Design Review
11-12 December 1986
Box 5, Folder 5-8
Reference Documents
1985-1987
Box 5, Folder 9
Plans and Requirements
1985-1988
Box 6, Folder 2
LMSC Airflow Videotape
May 1988
Box 6, Folder 4
NASA / CNES Plans
1985-1990
Box 6, Folder 5
Research Announcement
1988
Box 6, Folder 6-9
Rhesus Project Data
1989-1992
Box 7, Folder 1
Rhesus Project Data
1989-1992
Box 7, Folder 2
Termination Plan
1993-1994
Box 7, Folder 4
SLS Presentation Aids
approximately 1982-1995
Box 7, Folder 5-7
Follow-Up Documentation
1985-1993
Box 7, Folder 8
SLS-1 Crew Briefings
1988
