These 48 interviews at the United States Naval Observatory in cover the period between 1914 and 2005. Interviewees are either current or former employees of the various departments of the United States Naval Observatory or affiliates from other institutions such as the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Gǒdynamiques et Astronomiques of the Observatoire de la Ct̥e d'Azur, and the Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore College. Departments represented include the Astrometry and Astrophysics Division, Dual Rate Moon Program, Earth Orientation Division, Exploratory Development Section, Flagstaff Station, Nautical Almanac Office, Nautical Instrument Shop, Ritchey-Chretien Telescope, Six- and Seven-inch Transit Circle Divisions, Southern Hemisphere Station, and Time Service Division.

Interviewees include Harold D. Ables, Frank M. Bateson, Jack Belzer, William Browne, James W. Christy, Brenda G. Corbin, Thomas E. Corbin, H. E. Crull, Conard Dahn, Suzanne Db̌arbat, Steven J. Dick, Julena Duncombe, Raynor L. Duncombe, Joseph P. Egan, Alan D. Fiala, Henry F. Fliegel, Otto G. Franz, F. Stephen Gauss, John Scoville Hall, Robert S. Harrington, Ralph Freeman Haupt, Arthur A. Hoag, Edward S. Jackson, Fredrick Jerry Josties, George H. Kaplan, Jean Kovalevsky, William Markowitz, Dennis D. McCarthy, Alfred Mikesell, Robert J. Miller, Mihran Miranian, Douglas O'Handley, T. J. Rafferty, Ida E. Ray, R. W. Rhynsburger, Dennis Robinson, Elizabeth Roemer, David Kendall Scott, P. Kenneth Seidelmann, Paul Sollenberger, Stewart L. Sharpless, Clayton A. Smith, E. Myles Standish, Kaj Aage Strand, Peter van de Kamp, John Watkins, Gart Westerhout, Marvin e. Whitney, Gernot Winkler, Margaret Woodward, and Charles E. Worley.