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... I went down to Cape Canaveral with the first Mercury capsule that we built. Interesting story. Once the Atlas flies and you release the capsule, it reenters the atmosphere and we ... engineering and Chris Kraft became head of operations. It may have been a totally different story had it been the other way around. At the time we were investigating lenticular shapes ... . Just hushed up and kept on—you may not find many people tell you that story. '''Johnson:''' You mentioned working with the black world and DoD Department of Defense . What was ...

... engineer. Somebody handed me a book. I'll tell you an interesting story. You want to hear an interesting story? '''Rusnak:''' Sure. '''Fendell:''' You know what schematics are? '''Rusnak:''' Yes. '''Fendell:''' I ... room, working at what you were doing, intense and so on. Interesting story, I guess. '''Rusnak:''' It's a great story. '''Fendell:''' That originally was in Kranz's book, but it got ...

... and how rocks crystallize. I was really interested in that aspect of geology, the detective story part rather than—some people study phase diagrams or things like that. I just wasn ... for this mission. Can you tell us about that? '''Lofgren:''' Well, that’s another interesting story. I didn’t work in the prime science back room. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Oh, okay. '''Lofgren ... it doesn’t tell the full story by any stretch. For a lot of people, the full story would be boring. But I think the full story is a significant issue as well ...

... D. Kathy Sullivan, and Bruce McCandless II . And that in itself was another very interesting story, and preparation and expecting the unexpected, and having the unexpected happen, because could not have ... of Hubble, everything, its inner workings, everything about it, were Bruce McCandless, Kathy Sullivan, and Story Musgrave, because they had been with that program, that project, from its very inception, so ...

... called "Brick Bradford" that I used to read religiously. There were radio shows, series about stories from Randolph Field San Antonio, Texas , aviation cadets, and stuff like that. Of course, Charles ... of the instrumentation part or not, but he was involved. He would have some interesting stories for us, I imagine. '''Bergen:''' We were talking about LOR. '''Chilton:''' LOR. Okay. Eventually, Gilruth ...

... three weeks before launch, Chris Kraft calling us up to his office. He tells this story differently than I remember it, but that’s typical. My recollection of it is that ... were going to be weightless, and nobody had ever ridden a bike in weightlessness before, Story Musgrave helped us design a very elaborate harness to wear. It had a harness that ... shield. But something went awry during launch with the heat shield. The kind of rough stories you hear afterwards. Well, the designers of the heat shield didn’t talk to the ...

... issue of the American “pulp” (high acid content but cheaply produced) science fiction magazine ''Wonder Stories'', that mostly featured “interplanetary” tales, included his long letter that was all about the “German ... , Missiles'', p. 136; Günzel, pp. 37-38; Letter, Willy Ley, “The Reader Speaks” column, ''Wonder Stories'', Vol. II, September 1930, p. 370; Tanja Jelnina and Karlheinz Rohrwild, “Reflections of the Technical ...

... applied to building a permanent human culture. Imagine a gigantic building that is 10,000 stories (some 32 kilometers) high, representing 5 million years of hominoid evolution that has developed since ... space tourism business. Finally, Astronaut Dr. Bob Thirsk and Payload Specialist Dr. Larry DeLucas share stories of their missions. All these people who have made amazing advances in space are, in ...

... . Aside from the obvious technological anecdotes associated with the X-20 there are the human stories which involve characters like Dornberger, Sänger, the six pilots chosen to fly it (none of ... by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and the new administration of Lyndon Johnson. The Dyna-Soar story is a tale of high-stakes and high technology involving the leading players in the ... the World’s Fair still resides at the Oklahoma Omniplex. This book looks at the story of Dyna-Soar through the official documentation that flowed between the Air Force, NASA and ...

... that number of kilos of lead to balance out the Gemini. So those kind of stories are quite interesting. '''Wright:''' How did you collect all of the different artifacts and have ... , really ramrodding it, developed this series of exhibits called the compatibles, where we tell various stories using sort of a basic theme shell, but using different audiovisuals. We started traveling these ... otherwise. So I never really had a problem with it. You might get a different story from someone down the hall, but we worked quite well with our media counterparts. '''Starr ...

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