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... of those. I think Gilruth could see that, and he insisted that George be made the Program Manager, and George at that point was the Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center ... Module and the Lunar Module in Earth orbit, proving their operability with each other. Whenever George had a problem, he gave it to me. He had already given me the software ... . Within the industry we had people like that too. We had Dale D. Myers and George W. Jeffs running the North American Company. They had a bunch of great people involved ...

... said, "I'd like to transfer." Incidentally, I'd become relatively close with George Abbey at that time, and George said, "Pete, if you want to come back to Johnson, we'd ... . Other outstanding individuals, I guess, would be the question. '''Clements:''' I worked with George Abbey quite a lot. George and I had a little competition going in the sense that he was ... nothing to say," and sat down. Laughter But that kind of rapport went on with George. George was with us eating crabs on the back porch of our house in Houston many ...

... people who were in their social group, which included Joe H. Engle, Air Force pilot, George Abbey, head of Flight Crew Operations, Jay Honeycutt, Deputy Chief of Flight Crew Operations, they ... to see people in a more relaxed environment. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' So when George Abbey called, what was your reaction? '''Hauck:''' George called—I was in Whidbey Island—and he said, “Hey, Rick ... . It was wonderful. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Can you tell us about that day? '''Hauck:''' Well, George, I think—George probably called each one of us separately and said, “Can you come over to ...

... and what wasn't… Oh, that went around and around, and finally, it ended up, George M. Low said, "Okay…it's Building 45 the Mission Evaluation Team’s responsibility . We ... going to the Moon… however . I remember one time there was one big meeting and George Low was in there, and the administrator was down, and they were talking about one ... came from. '''Butler:''' I believe it might have been George Low. '''Arabian:''' George Low, maybe, yes. George Low, it could have been. Yes, George Low, by the way, of all the people that I ...

... those people were not thinking about Apollo, they were flying Mercury, they were flying Gemini. George E. Mueller, who at that time I guess his title was Associate Administrator for Manned ... exciting because the computer kept giving alarms. And even today George Mueller—George Mueller and I are great friends—even today George Mueller thinks that was a computer error, and the last time ...

... to the Titan II and then to the Apollo, the Saturn V Program down at George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville Alabama . '''Harwood:''' Did you have any expertise in that ... stand out about any of the other folks you mentioned, like George Low? I mean, any little anecdotes? '''Borman:''' Well, George Low was a brilliant guy. And the one thing that all ... tried to talk him out of doing something? That you spoke you mind to George Low and—? '''Borman:''' George Low and I were pretty much on the same page. I don’t ...

... Headquarters-field center relationship, one of the reasons, those two guys, Low came from NASA, George Low. He was NASA, I think Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center), Cleveland, Ohio ... terms of representing the program, America, their performance. Everything worked fine. That mission, I think George Low, the gentleman I had talked to you about earlier, had a lot to do ... engineer. Had a personality about like Genghis Khan or somebody, you know. George Abbey was our directorate chief. God, George Abbey was mad at us every day. So we started this program ...

... 't have afforded to go to college. C. Howard Robins Jr. , Bill Tolson phonetic , George Young, George Weyer phonetic , a whole bunch of the guys were at Langley that were a part ... be JSC Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas facility number two. We ought to name it George Low Engineering Laboratory or something like that," to become a funding item under the stream ... , after Joe Joseph F. Shea had the problems, you know, with the fire and everything. George Low had taken over the Apollo Program. And, of course, Chris' destination was always Mars ...

... his own way. '''Gregory:''' Yes, and I'm not sure that people would even compare George Washington Sherman Abbey with any of those guys. '''Butler:''' Laughter Right. Going back again to ... easy to work with, and you can't say that about everybody, Bob Gilruth and George. Unfortunately, George left us rather early and that was tough. Guys like Joe Joseph F. Shea ... is the influence that they would have on relationships is guys like Bob Gilruth and George Low and Deke, Tom Stafford , Al. '''Butler:''' Well, it certainly took a lot of people ...

... the part of Congress and the national establishment after the Russians had done extravehicular activity. George Low said, "Well, I think we can do that," but it was kept very much ... suppose that would be hard. Personally I think probably the day that I, according to George Low, changed his mind about continuing biomedical telemetry in the manned flight program. That was ... -brainer. But things were going the other way for quite a while. '''Butler:''' Talking about George Low, and you've mentioned Dr. Berry and several of the other individuals that you ...

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