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... were at Edwards—either in Test Pilot School or had just graduated—that got picked. Joe H. Engle. He was probably the most experienced of us, of the bunch, because he ... '''Duke:''' Yeah. '''Ward:''' —scientific equipment on your flight. And the lunar rover was an amazing little— '''Duke:''' An incredible machine. '''Ward:''' —invention all by itself. '''Duke:''' Yeah. It was an incredible ...

... the engine that we were supposed to… We had to use some little engines, … we put eight of the little engines, … they'd … used on the X-1… W e put them ... Piland was interim program manager, and I think after him was Joe Joseph F. Shea. I worked with Joe Shea very well. Joe Shea passed away, I understand, just recently. I'm not ... of that booster, and it went into orbit with its propulsion system. That become a little too expensive for the government and NASA, because by the time you developed effectively two ...

... that headrests are installed, parachutes are in the right seats, the thermoelectric cooling units, the little liquid cooling units, are securely mounted. Just anything that's associated with the suit, double ... their pillows, so that every time they opened a drawer or something, there was a little paper roach somewhere. They would stick them on their door outside their room, keeping count ... , because we have the history. Fortunately, the three of us that were here, four counting Joe Schmitt, this is what we wanted to do for a career. We stayed with it ...

... -Patterson Air Force Base to complete my dissertation. I worked with Dr. Wilbur Hankey, Dr. Joe Shang and Major Scott McRae in the Aerodynamics and Airframe Branch of the Air Force ... aerodynamic characteristics of the Space Shuttle during my visit to Houston; however, I found very little time for that. It was a great experience, and I was hopeful that I would ... pounds. It was going to be the heaviest Space Shuttle flight to date, with very little weight growth margin. One of the challenges for the flight was to develop the procedures ...

... airplane with Truly. I think I got ten approaches with Truly and ten approaches with Joe Engle. This was in the tail-cone-off configuration, which meant if came down at ... closer with the pilots in developing the guidelines and the procedures? '''Deiterich:''' Probably a little closer. Probably a little closer. Yes, well, it turns out that, back in Apollo, most of the ... center of gravity was by putting in stuff. So we actually started that whole little program in that little section, and now they use it to control some of the experiments in ...

... over India to broadcast health-type messages down to the little villages, and in cooperation with the Indian government, they put little receivers and television sets in the public square. So we ... the Apollo Program Manager, Sam Samuel C. Phillips, and the Project Manager, George Low, after Joe Shea, and the Gilruths and the von Brauns, and George's deputy was a high ... around and verify the constituents that we found with the Viking a little further away, maybe it did a little better job of identifying the mineralogic—in other words, this rock is ...

... complicated project, and what we should do before we did that was build a little device, a little one-man device which would just investigate the qualities and requirements of flying in ... would be due to the alignment… (the drift) of our navigation system. A lot of little things like that which were extremely important and painfully tedious, but absolutely necessary. '''Brinkley:''' How ... most anticipated event, maybe even ever. A heavyweight boxing champion going into Muhammad Ali versus Joe Frazier, there's a lot of pressure on those guys and a lot of buildup ...

... enjoyed was Charles M. Schulz and Peanuts cartoon , because Snoopy had climbed atop his wonderful little doghouse and had become the astronaut going to the Moon. At the time I was ... had to be neat. Hopefully it was cool for them. '''Coplin:''' Yes, they had their little portable air conditioners. '''Wright:''' Maybe you needed one. '''Coplin:''' I remember having heels on. I ... interested in flying Skylab, and he was named commander of the first Skylab crew, with Joe Joseph P. Kerwin, science pilot, and Paul J. Weitz, PJ. I quickly got into the ...

... Campbell, Kentucky. We were out at PE physical education class, and our teacher had a little transistor radio. We were listening to Alan B. Shepard’s first flight. That was when ... mission specialists in the group who had absolutely no aviation experience. They put together the little course and taught us how to do navigating and talking on the radios. The pilots ... that the guys would say. For example, my crewmates would tease me—less so probably Joe and Dale, more Dave probably. Every time we would do a transatlantic abort, they would ...

... space hazards outside the atmosphere. Apart from radiation, which everybody knew about, they knew very little about the meteoroid population. That was definitely going to be an unknown. One of my ... working with orbital debris over there. Another thing was working with Dennis E. Fielder and Joe Loftus on whatever projects they were coming up with, some of which was, it seems ... over my old guns. They were in charge, but she had a little corner where we started with a little gun. So she started work on that again, and when I joined ...

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