Scope and Contents From the Collection: The majority of the collection consists of speeches ghostwritten by Jefferson Bates covering a variety of information such as Apollo Missions, NASA debriefs, and speeches given to college students. The Speeches are arranged chronologically and the general NASA materials are in alphabetical order materials much of the general NASA materials information about Skylab, NASA history, and Apollo mission information. There are also 39 pictures that range from airplanes to diagrams of different...

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This includes reports and correspondence to individuals and National Geographic Magazine.

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Includes a wide variety of history about the NASA program.

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Apollo 11 plaque and an award given to Bates from Southeast Missouri State University.

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Primarily speeches (typescripts, carbons, photocopies) by Bates, speechwriter for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from circa 1958 to circa 1980, and graduate of Southeast Missouri State University (1941). Also contains NASA publications and pamphlets, photographs, slides, Congressional reports, plaques and ephemera. Largely relates to the Apollo 8-17, Skylab 1-2, and Viking missions.