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... . Again, at…university I took engineering. I somewhat wanted to take engineering physics. I started taking mechanical engineering, and I wrote a thesis. I think my mechanical engineering thesis was magnetic amplifiers, which was ... the concepts …Really all we were doing was a little bit more like catalog engineering. You take these engineering assembl ed systems out of some design components that had come out of ...

... was too academic for me, and that I really wanted to be an engineer. I shifted into the mechanical engineering program at the University of Southern California. I played one year of ... interested in the idea of beginning to ply my trade as an engineer in the commercial world, as a professional engineer. So when I left NASA, I joined a company in Houston ... H. “Jack” Schmitt. I'm leaving somebody out. We also got a lot of engineers, former NASA engineers, who worked with us. Milt Milton L. Windler worked with us, Gordon Ferguson, Glen ...

... changed and put down fighter pilot, but anyway, they sent me to twin-engine school, as opposed to single-engine school, at Freeman Field. April 15th of 19 '44, I became a ... group, too, because they wanted to, of course, have the integration responsibility and the system engineering and everything. They wanted everything, whereas on the Polaris, the Navy had gone to one ... was XF5U-1 , didn't have any—it was like a pancake. It had two engines, reciprocating engines 2 Pratt & Whitney twin WASPs 1350 hp buried in wing driving 2 propellers out ...

... for a year. So I said, “Okay, I’ll go work in Engineering.” And after the year in Engineering, I worked in crew systems. I had a great time. I worked life ... duties so that you could do those jobs well? '''Cleave:''' I was an engineer. I am an engineer. So I ended up working with the guys in crew systems and thermal when ... control team. '''Cleave:''' I don’t know. I think of them as being engineers. Laughter They are engineers. The guys from the life-support group I was talking about, they’re in ...

... probably that I'd like to be an engineer, and if I was going to be an engineer, I might as well be an aeronautical engineer. So that's the size of it ... . At that time I was involved partly as a flight test engineer and partly in project engineering. Of course, flight test engineering was exciting and fun and so forth. I had been away ... it's important to realize is your own tendency to focus too narrowly, because in engineering you can have multiple solutions to the same design problem. They're all equally effective ...

... was right on the top, okay. The ascent engine is right down the center, and under that is the descent engine. Luckily, the engines weren’t in there. That pin came out, went ... Guppy, the big Guppy, and doesn’t have any engines on it because NASA owns the engines. We’ve always owned the engines for that Guppy. So I got to Marquardt and I ... GSE ground support equipment for me. Ed, I think, is an electrical engineer, too. I’m an RF engineer, electrical engineer, but RF. Anyway, we were talking about this thing. I said, “Why ...

... into the schools. What I tried to do was encourage all young kids to be engineers. Engineering is the foundation of the modern world, and I personally believe it’s not only ... around us and cameras and cell phones and refrigerators and electricity and flight—but because engineers or engineering are also responsible for the way we communicate, I think it’s one of ... . So when we got our briefing on the main engines, we got it from either the Managing Engineer or the Lead Engineer or the Design Engineer. It hadn’t filtered down through two or ...

... 250 miles or so, and then we pointed the SPS Service Propulsion System engine down and burned that engine straight down to increase the entry speed. So we were actually above orbital ... almost six months to get any procedures in there. The LM engine, for a docked burn, they would start the engine at 10 percent, and they would throttle it up, and they ... measures for that? '''Deiterich:''' The separation maneuver itself, Ivy F. Hooks was in E&D Engineering and Development , and she was in charge of the—she had a separation panel, and ...

... that, I had, in my engineering stuff, I had taken over the lunar module engine oversight. The descent stage engine was doing really well, but the ascent engine was in trouble. This was like ... were trying to qualify it, and they were having some instability in the engine. And that’s a critical engine. I mean, if it didn’t work, you were going to either ... rate and also getting them going up again. '''Duke:''' Exactly. '''Ward:''' You wanted the descent engine to have enough propellant to do that. '''Duke:''' Right. So there was a little margin ...

... the parachute swing and the wave angles and so forth. I got some dynamics engineers from our Engineering and Development here to see looking at the data, and they agreed that we ... you can imagine. Again, the thing was suspended in free flight by a jet engine. If the engine failed, the thing fell out of the sky very rapidly. The pilot had an ... and landing. I had some very interesting times working on that problem with the engineers at JSC, the engineers at Rockwell, and again, very capable people out at the NASA Flight Research ...

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