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... various components for the International Space Station, hundreds of people at Kennedy are coupling advanced hardware assembly systems with a new human-rated spacecraft designed for deep space travel.. It is ... contractor for the five-segment solid rocket boosters, ATK, has begun processing its first SLS hardware components in preparation for an initial qualification test in 2013. The SLS core stage, which ...

... time for the country and NASA as important achievements are made on the most advanced hardware ever designed for human spaceflight," said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the Human Exploration Operations ... -segment solid rocket boosters, ATK of Brigham City, Utah, has begun processing its first SLS hardware components in preparation for an initial qualification test in 2013. ''RELEASE: 12-212 NASA ADMINISTRATOR ...

... happens, though, you have a chunk of money, you know, so many million dollars. The hardware is going to cost the most of it, always does, about, rough numbers, 80 percent ... that has been brought back. It all makes sense. What happens in real life, the hardware end of the program runs into funding problems, and where do they get the money ... try and safeguard the science money from this big elephant that sucked up all the hardware money. Everybody did what they could with it. In a lot of ways, that sort ...

... missions, and so we were trying to figure out what to do with this hardware, how much hardware was there. We were working with Huntsville mostly, because most of the people here ... working with people there. We were trying to figure out how to use this Apollo hardware and do long-duration lights, study this Earth, study the sun, study the stars. People ... there in the painting and it was round, they could not do machinery—I mean hardware. It was like a mental block. It's like the person who can paint things ...

... want them to get their hands dirty, understand the hardware, bring it here and test it, and make sure that the hardware meets the design requirements that have been sent out to the contractor to develop. And only then will we certify that the hardware is ready to go and fly, fly a man." I might mention one other thing ... things that came about with test facilities. We ought to be able to examine the hardware and test it and make sure that it meets and is capable of meeting the ...

... a mess because they were using the drawings provided by the people who built the hardware. They were using from McDonnell-Douglas McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell-Douglas Corporation certain drawings ... a headset on, planning the operation. This time I was responsible for some flight hardware, very complex flight hardware, state-of-the-art material stuff, that wasn't working right and was ...

... were small rockets, but, nevertheless, I had had my hands in rocket fuel and the hardware, with that as a background, I was put into flight operations in the Mission Analysis ... there, but in those early days, sometimes the indicators failed more often than the real hardware did, which is a problem in that regard. '''Butler:''' Gives a little more respect, even ... was happening was—and it was generally the contractors who were responsible for delivering the hardware from one contractor to the next to the government. They were giving a guaranteed weight ...

... space program was the first time NACA was given the job of developing and procuring hardware. It was totally different. It was a completely totally different thing. Sputnik. "What was your ... me. The Navy had given them the system responsibility for the guidance system, not the hardware procurement, but the studies. Then they let contracts. The Navy let contracts to companies to ... Draper and the Doc agreed there would come a time when all of the inertial hardware, the gyros and accelerometers, would be turned over to AC Spark Plug Division (General Motors ...

... we had available to us. The computer advances in the U.S. in terms of hardware technology were very rapid and were responding to the needs of the aerospace industry. As ... some extent, of the software. Although the programming systems always lagged behind the hardware, I knew that the hardware, the actual equipment, computer equipment, could keep up with the demands, because you ...

... as a leader in spaceflight. Many new innovations in program management, space operations, and space hardware and software were developed methodically in the presence of enthusiasm and national competition. We Americans ... , however. Due to ensuing yearly budget cycle pressures and schedule pressures NASA concentrated on vehicle hardware and software development, leaving to the unspecified future any concentration on providing an efficient operational ...

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