Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Biographical Note
Indexing Terms
Scope and Content
Arrangement of the Robert P. Hogan Collection
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).