Planning of Scientific and Technical Experiment Payloads for AAP

The purpose of this presentation is to cover the present status of our experiments program, including a discussion of how manned space-flight experimentation has evolved over the years, finally resulting into the concept of the Apollo Applications Program (AAP). Also, I propose to discuss some of the management problems which we face in organizing a major program of this type, together with some of the tentative solutions arrived at. I wish to emphasize the word "tentative, " because in view of the formative stage which the AAP is in at present, none of our solutions are frozen. I will avoid engineering details of the Apollo hardware, which have already been covered by Mr. Taylor and , also, I will avoid the specific details of bioscience experiments under consideration by NASA, a subject which will be discussed by Dr. Gerathewohl in a later paper.