I.

Unmanned Lunar Exploration and the Need for a Lunar Orbiter.

- The call for a program of exploration.

- Mustering for the challenge of space.

II.

Toward a Lightweight Lunar Orbiter.

- The Surveyor program.

- Early Apollo impact on lunar orbiter planning.

- The Centaur rocket program.

- The search for a lightweight orbiter.

- OSS-OMSF cooperative planning.

- The Scherer group's report.

- Problems at JPL.

- Langley enters the picture.

- Establishing management arrangements.

- Langley develops the request for proposal document.

- Stipulations of the request for proposal document.

III.

Beginning the Lunar Orbiter Program.

- Congress questions NASA on orbiter.

- The lunar orbiter project office is established.

- Preparing for contract bids.

- The Langley source evaluation board.

- The lunar orbiter proposals.

- The Boeing lunar orbiter proposal.

- The Eastman Kodak photographic system.

- Selecting the lunar orbiter contractor.

IV.

NASA and Boeing Negotiate a Contract.

- Early Boeing preparations.

- NASA preparations for contract negotiations.

- Congressional criticism of contractor choice.

- No duplication of effort.

- NASA solely responsible for photographic data.

- Langley-JPL working relations.

V.

Implementing the Program.

- Early funding considerations.

- Boeing negotiations with subcontractors.

- NASA cost-reduction efforts.

VI.

The Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft.

- A general description.

- Early design, fabrication, and testing problems.

VII.

Building the Spacecraft: Problems and Resolutions.

- Experiments for lunar orbiter.

- Other potential experiments.

- Preliminary mission planning activities.

- Testing procedures and program reviews.

- Problem areas: Last quarter 1964 to first half 1965.

VIII.

Lunar Orbiter Mission Objectives and Apollo Requirements.

- OSSA and OMSF Planning Activities.

- Developing mission designs.

- The ad hoc Surveyor/Orbiter utilization committee (SOUC).

- Presentation of mission A.

- Funding and technical problems - 1965.

- The status of the Boeing contract.

- Spacecraft compatibility with launch and tracking facilities.

- Flight recording equipment.

- A change in delivery incentive.

IX.

Missions I, II, and III: Apollo-Site Search and Verification.

- Preparations for the first launch.

- The first launch.

- Results of the first mission.

- Prelude to mission II.

- The plan for mission II.

- The second mission.

- The third orbiter mission.

X.

Missions IV and V: The Lunar Surface Explored.

- Preparing for the fourth mission.

- The fourth orbiter mission.

- Preparations for the fifth mission.

- Lunar orbiter V mission objectives.

- The final mission.

- The end of the operational phase.

XI.

Conclusions: Lunar Orbiter's Contribution to Space Exploration.

- A sixth orbiter mission?

- Apollo mission planning and lunar orbiter data.

- Results of non-photographic lunar orbiter experiments.

- A meaning for the lunar orbiter achievements.

XII.

Lunar Orbiter Photography.