| Space Medicine in Project Mercury |
Appendix B |
Aeromedical Monitoring Personnel
SUMMARY OF MONITOR PLAN
1. The following assumptions are made:
(a) Department of Defense physicians will be used.
(b) Personnel to be trained and assigned on a TDY basis.
(c) When possible, station assignment will be close to duty station.
(d) Provision will be made to train additional DOD personnel to provide a pool
of trained monitors for later operations and to provide a reserve for Mercury
operations.
(e) Advanced residents in aviation medicine would be a good source of extra
personnel.
(f) STG-NASA reserves right to review and interview qualifications of personnel
to be assigned in direct support of Mercury.
(g) STG-NASA will be responsible for monitor training.
(h) Where possible Mercury personnel will be used to accomplish other national
objectives as a by-product.
(i) Approximate total time for monitor training--4-6 weeks over a period of
about 10 months.
2. For certain key monitor positions in Project Mercury, Space Task Group
medical
personnel will be used. Included in this list should be:
USAF (MC)
Lt. Col. Stanley C. White--STG
Lt. Col. William K. Douglas--STG
Lt. Col. James P. Henry--STG
Lt. Col. Rufus R. Hessberg—Holloman AFB, N. Mex.—project officer for
STG animal research program
Col. George M. Knauf—AFMTC—whose close work in support of Mercury will
have given him the detailed knowledge of the project necessary for a key
monitor
USA (MC)
Capt. William S. Augerson--STG
3. Suggested monitors are as follows on the chart: (see chart1, page 1 or chart 1, page 2)
4. Additional consultants and monitors regarded as desirable:
| Station |
Name |
Location |
Background & Comments |
Corpus Christi |
Dr. Larry Lamb |
------------ |
Cardiologist, USAF-SAM. |
| Baja California |
Maj. Per Lanjoen |
------------ |
Cardiologist, Wm. Beaumont Army Hospital |
| Hawaii
| Col. Sandifer |
------------ |
Chief of Cardiology, Tripler Army Hospital
| Canary Islands |
Maj. Clyde Kratochvil,
USAF |
------------ |
ARDC Liason Office Europe;
Ph.D. in physiology,
SAM
researcher, flight surgeon |
| Bermuda (or elsewhere)
| Maj. Charles Berry
USAF-SGO |
------------ |
Flight surgeon, space medicine researcher, boards in aviation
medicine. |
|
Lt. Col. William Turner,
USAF |
------------ |
Flight surgeon, boards in aviation
medicine, WADC researcher. |
AEROMEDICAL MONITORS ORIGINALLY APPOINTED
1. Capt. Carl E. Pruett, USN (MC)
2. Col. Vance H. Marchbanks, USAF (MC)
3. Capt. Edward L. Beckman, USN (MC)
4. Lt. Col. Edwin L. Overholt, USA (MC)
5. Lt. Col. Charles A. Berry, USAF (MC)
6. Lt. Col. William R. Turner, USAF (MC)
7. Lt. Col. Jacques L. Sherman, USA (MC)
8. Thomas R. Davis, M.D.
9. Lt. Comdr. Frank H. Austin, USN (MC)
10. Maj. John C. Lawson, USA (MC)
11. Lt. Comdr. John J. Gordon, USN (MC)
12. Maj. William H. Hall, USA (MC)
13. Maj. Harry R. Bratt, USAF (MC)
14. Maj. Fritz M. G. Holstrom, USAF (MC)
15. Lt. Comdr. Glenn S. Kelly, USN (MC)
16. Maj. George B. Smith, USAF (MC)
17. Maj. Robert H. Moser, USA (MC)
18. Maj. Robert R. Burwell, USAF (MC)
19. Maj. Willard R. Hawkins, USAF (MC)
20. Maj. Julian E. Ward, USAF (MC)
21. Maj. C. H. Kratochvil, USAF (MC)
22. Lt. Edmund P. Jacobs, USN (MC)
AEROMEDICAL CONSULTANTS ORIGINALLY APPOINTED
1. Col. Harold Ellingson, USAF (MC)
2. Lawrence E. Lamb, M. D.
3. Col. Samuel M. Sandifer, USA (MC)
4. Maj. James C. Syner, USA (MC)
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