Search wiki using Sphinx

Jump to: navigation, search

... in the pressure suit. I had my neck crunched down. I never got up. I sat in a chair and they took me to altitude and then brought it down, and ... Space Suit Division, people that came out of—Ted Edward L. Hays and Jim James V. Correale and some of those that were in crew systems had come from the Air ... — was not cargo integration. He was the Shuttle operations and payloads. So I kind of sat in his office complex and got him engineering support from the thermal people and structures ...

... enlisted professional-type recruiters. Whereas the Navy team that came were actual pilots, and they sat down and they told you flying stories and laid out what it was all about ... and picked up these four satellites. We had one for Mexico, one for the Arab Sat Consortium, one for AT&T, and then we had Spartan, which was run out of ... able to grab is easier, instead of joining it that way, which was called a V-bar, or velocity bar, rendezvous, we flew up over the top of it, came down ...

... had nothing to do. Nobody was there to tell us what to do. We just sat around and listened on the loop and followed the mission and got very excited about ... ever came to a powered flight abort. It was a terrible disaster. The whole Saturn V stack got hit by lightning twice, just after liftoff. Do you know about this? '''Butler ... saw him when he walked in with the flight director, all excited and everything. He sat down at the console and he had a speaking part in it. '''Butler:''' That's ...

... not sure how the crews were selected. I got a inkling that Deke and Al sat down and said, “Okay, who’s going to be the next commander?” And, “Okay, it ... , Moffett Field, California a couple of times to try to, “Can you fly the Saturn V in orbit manually?” And so they had—Ames had a program and some sort of simulator that—Stu and I went out there and we could fly the Saturn V into orbit from the pad. And— '''Ward:''' This was using the guidance system— '''Duke:''' The ...

... was almost dark in there—and locked the door and the sergeant left. And I sat there and I said, “Something has happened. Somebody didn’t tell that lieutenant.” And I sat there for about a half an hour, and then suddenly all the lights went on ... headed, nonstop, to Houston. Dr. Paine and myself relaxed and laid back with glasses of V-8 juice, and he turned to me and asked me, “Is this the first recovery ...

... commander, Roman took the center seat. Frank (flight engineer one) sat in the left seat and I (flight engineer two) sat in the right. The crew compartment of the Soyuz vehicle is ... an hour. The deorbit burn decreased our velocity by 115 meters per second – a small ΔV compared to our total orbital velocity of 8,000 meters per second. The more important ...

... gone out to Canada and were working at AVRO, or A.V. Roe, as it was in those days, A.V. Roe to start with and then it became AVRO, AVRO Canada ... to run the Mission Control Center, the critical parts of it, and the fly wheel sat on the end of that motor/generator combination just to provide momentum. If the power ... the Mars missions. So that was one of the facets. The use of the Saturn V, Saturn IV-B upper-stage, as a space lab, we got involved in all those ...

... . I’m the only one that said, “Okay,” and I took it home. I just sat there and read the damn book at the kitchen table. First of all, it’s ... then other things were happening that were really heartening to us. Like the first Saturn V; Apollo 4, and then Apollo 6. Apollo 5, the LM Lunar Module they lost in ... got through with that. Those guys were really working on those. There was 15 Saturn V rockets built along with another called F1. Today, we’ve got two left. The Saturn ...

... return them. ''(W Post, 9/21/68, A7; W Star, 9/21/68, A2)'' Saturn V launch vehicle has passed Design Certification Review con­ducted over communication facilities linking NASA and ... exces­sive oscillations, during second Saturn V flight and anomalies experi­enced by J-2 engines on upper stages. Solutions had been tested to sat­isfaction. Major efforts on both items would ...

... there in various fields of aviation. During the war Sänger and his wife Irene Bredt sat down and wrote a four hundred page report which outlined the concept for the armed ... for proposals and just happened to be conducting their own research in the field. A.V.Roe in Canada were already immersed in their Arrow interceptor program and were looking ahead ... projects were continued, including the pilot controlled booster which was finally used on the Saturn V . Some of the aerodynamic work ended up being used later in an unmanned program called ...

Powered by Sphinx