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... us to do a little soul-searching on the future and talk about what’s going to happen in the future and why this is going to benefit Joe Six-Pack Taxpayer ... would be about $50,000 every three years, the Saturn and the Redstone and the Little Joe 2, and it’s beginning to show. I hear recently that it is now under ... ’s an artist, too. You probably know that. He picked up this young, little kid, little boy, girl, little girl, and had her in his arm, and Tom Stafford said, “Where’s my ...

... the deployment position and we’re watching it, and it slowly moved a little bit, stopped, moved a little bit, stopped, and then it went whistles , and it deployed. I went, “Whew ... actually flew—I mean, we took—this is a bought-off-the-shelf black little flashlight with this little extension with a mirror on the end of it, and we adapted it ... free-flight model tests and full-scale model tests. In that case it was a Little Joe rocket off Wallops Island, and then, of course, you have the actual mission to confirm ...

... the Mercury Program and we did, you know, the earlier kinds of testing with Little Joes and Big Joes and those kinds of things, they took some of those kinds of concepts and ... . And they started doing a lot of that work over at Wallops, because on the Little Joe project and some of those other—we were going to instrument up the chimpanzees and ... the Mercury, the Mercury Redstone, you know the suborbital-type flights, and some of the Little Joes and those, where I would do a lot of the tracking. Because I'd been ...

... . Between Joe and I, we were running to the phone all day, calling people to get answers, and I felt so inadequate. As a result, we started working on a little project ... he and I had gone over and we'd built ourselves a little cooling system for the spacesuit, using Little Joe heat exchangers and Mercury suit fans. In fact, I went down to ... the way over, I had remembered that that heat exchanger that we got out of Little Joe had some magnesium in it, and I thought, oh, word. Magnesium burns like a torch ...

... towards it. It was a very good environment. Now, the fourth group came on a little bit later, but they were critical to actually implementing this worldwide network and staffing it ... I didn’t have too much to do with. There was small launch vehicle called Little Joe, that was launched at Wallops Island a number of times with various configurations of Mercury ... to Houston. Did that seem like a logical move? '''Aldrich:''' At first it seemed a little strange, because that was the centroid of everything we were doing. To me, technically it ...

... to the water. Then later on, when they began to fire, it got into the Little Joe series. By then we had all sorts of camera installations on the ground. We had ... it. All that testing was done on the ground. Now they were getting to the Little Joe into the flight tests. This was all very interesting, too. Again, we used the same ... of putting a man in space. While all this testing was going on with the Little Joe series, there were several young engineers that I became very friendly with, who were—at ...

... launched Little Joe II booster rocket with dummy payload simulating size and weight of Apollo command module and escape tower in flight, test at White Sands Missile Range , N.M. The Little Joe II ... ground command signal. This was first launching of Little Joe II LJ-II and was a flight quali­fication test to verify performance of Little Joe II LJII before using it to test Apollo ...

... . And it was an interesting problem when we finally figured out what was happening. And Little Joe, a development booster at White Sands Test Facility, Las Cruces, New Mexico , it took off ... prefer it that way. In the same way, I got very little involved in Skylab. When I say very little involved, there were always exercises that you could get picked on for ... , the life support systems previously had been entirely divorced from the avionics, except for a little bit of instrumentation that was passed on. Now we have the central computer involved in ...

... we were doing out at the US Army White Sands Missile Range New Mexico . The Little Joe II launch vehicle you see there at Rocket Park at JSC was one of the ... Boilerplate 22 Mission A-003 . That launch was one where the big fin on the Little Joe II rocket failed in a hard over position, so the faster the rocket went up ... Russians and your thoughts of this partnership? '''Johnson:''' Back in 1973, maybe even beginning a little bit in ’72, NASA had already as an agency decided to jointly work with the ...

... also the unmanned, like the Enos chimpanzee, Mercury-Atlas 5 mission and Sam Rhesus monkey, Little Joe 2 . So we did our computations then on one of the—oh, to go back ... was worked out through the jointly chaired Flight Mechanics Panel. You want to take a little break? '''Wright:''' Sure, be glad to. pause '''Wright:''' So many times today people send e ... payloads, the security measures were very constraining. All the local meetings were held in a little vault room that was specially shielded and equipped over in Building 1. You went in ...

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