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... was second generation into the Gemini, and we were patterning a lot of our hardware off the Mercury hardware. And Mercury was flying at the time we were developing the Gemini, so ... , and were somewhat unhappy that their hardware was not going to be the first hardware to do an American EVA. I said, "Well, your hardware is the first hardware to do an EVA. It ... was the human factor, or the habitability, I think it was called habitability hardware, and then the EVA hardware. Those were the two things that our group was in charge of. Clothing ...

... experienced people onto Apollo. The reports from Cape Canaveral Florida on the quality of the hardware that was being delivered—and I could see it myself, because I'd been spending ... 't flown this Command/Service Module yet. We didn't know whether that hardware was good hardware or bad hardware. We thought it was good. All the engine tests were wonderful. But we ... so good. The perfection we did it with, the tests run on the hardware, the success of the hardware couldn't have been done without that kind of commitment right down to ...

... it’s called an integration lab, because it brings both the hardware side and the software that’s running in the hardware, how it all plays together. Anyway, that’s a big ... . '''Blackburn:''' One of the big customers are all the subsystem and system managers of the hardware, like the data processing system, the communication people, the various systems that will come in ... company disappeared. When that starts to happen, it’s very hard to maintain the hardware, to test laboratory hardware. Again, this is generic, to all labs. So then you have to upgrade ...

... actually evolved this was we did everything on the simulation, and then as we got hardware, functioning hardware in test rigs, we would replace that part of the simulation, we'd run ... was, well, you know, are we going to be allowed to ever have hardware, or is the hardware just going to be designed by contractors or something like that. There was assurance ... …of the Gemini guidance and control system, where we were, what our hardware schedules and deliveries were, what our hardware status was, why it was, what it was, etc. …At that time ...

... opportunity of taking a concept that were viewgraphs and paper and turning it into hardware, and turning that hardware into an operational vehicle. I was able to do that. I was able ... them an awful lot of credit. And that had to all fit within their hardware. The major hardware there was the computer, was the inertial measurement unit, which is a combination of ... so if they needed to do a rescue? '''Cohen:''' Yes, I was. We implemented the hardware into that, yes. Requirements were established and then I was essentially building it, in that ...

... there, or meet with the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri, people, whoever had the hardware, and we’d do through the procedures for disposing of that through established channels for ... about the same thing happened between Apollo and Skylab, not as obvious because the same hardware was used, but the same sort of thing. '''Wright:''' Did you have any dealings at ... did. The down side was, we didn’t have hardware for Shuttle. We had hardware from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and we could show hardware, and we rely a lot on artifacts. So we ...

... and the Skylab. We used most of our Apollo hardware, as a spacecraft did, for those missions. We used the Apollo simulator hardware. Let me go back to something important, that is ... days, along with IBM and with the flight controllers' help, to incorporate the actual same hardware configured flight computers, tie them in directly to our simulator and the environment of the ... towards that and see what we would salvage from the Apollo program as far as hardware, simulation hardware, and how quickly we could get into some pretty good simulations of the Shuttle ...

... California and working with hardware. I missed working with hardware. I'd worked at Fairey Aviation in Hayes, Middlesex, England on hardware and at AVRO on a lot of hardware, so it was a ... NASA the manufacture and acceptance testing of each Space Shuttle Orbiter and all its related hardware, the mission kits and modification kits, the ground-support equipment, and other bits and pieces ... spacecraft, the unmanned spacecraft and then the manned spacecraft. So there was a lot of hardware. '''Bergen:''' How were you received by North American personnel as the NASA person? Maybe they ...

... the flight control team, the program office, the engineering teams that are responsible for the hardware, and in the case of STS-124, the Japanese flight control team and all the ... the case of the Shuttle flying up to Station—and all the hardware, whether it’s experiments or the assembly hardware. They need to really get their hands on that and understand ... mission. The crew will do standalone training with a specific system or specific piece of hardware. They’ll do team-based training with their robotics or Extravehicular Activity EVA , the spacewalk ...

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