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... small organization. There were five people, I think, counting Dr. Berry, in the original medical operations office. '''Butler:''' None of the astronauts had flown yet at this point, is that correct ... be useful to the people who had the ultimate responsibility for their selection in flight operations, engineering departments in NASA, as folks who were medically acceptable without question, you know, there ...

... guess the other thing was, there were two different thruster systems. One was proportional control, operated by levers, which opened a proportional valve and controlled the propellant. The idea was, the ... their responsible organizations to defend their system. When you start a test in a complex operation like that and something goes wrong, sometimes it's immediately obvious what goes wrong and ...

... communicator, I was kind of invited into the Mercury Program to help provide the communications operational support. They had a console called the Network Status Monitor which, interestingly enough, sat adjacent ... , and we kind of interfaced with NASA. NASA has subsequently provided a man representing the operations people, Bob Harrington, and a fellow representing the instrumentation people, and that was Jim Satterfield ... everyone does, incidentally. It's not a question of the right way of operating or the wrong way of operating. It's everybody has their own technique, and I wasn't going ...

... allowing NASA to pioneer the technology and then move on while another organization builds the operational infrastructure is not new. It has already been successfully demonstrated with the communication satellite revolution ... the specific costs and benefits of using the LDC instead of NASA to build and operate lunar infrastructure? '''References''' Aldridge Commission (2004) President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space ...

... astronauts sacrificed. In pioneering any technology, risks must be taken whether they are financial, technological, operational, legal, societal, or human. These questions are profound in their ethical, social, moral and technological ... " concept and subsequent achievement has brought us yet another historical opportunity in the design, produce, operate and managing the future generations of space vehicles. Meanwhile, how those technologies are developed, utilized ...

... engineering practices, and with the objectives of flexible and cost-time efficient operations. We can also glean design and operational information from our past successes and failures with space and terrestrial robots ... communications links will need to be multiplied by at least two orders of magnitude. Modern operational concepts require significant bandwidths and multipoint communication capabilities. The exploration communications architecture has requirements for ...

... were three things that really were worrisome. Number one, if you aborted somebody during this operation and you blew the altitude chamber all the way down to the ground, you broke ... to you now. I want every window to have an inspection before every operation and an inspection after every operation, and I want you to look at the slightest difference, and anything ... Boosters . We could do that with an ET External Tank .” So the OMRS system, the Operational Maintenance Requirements documentation. He’s the guy that started that because of some concern back ...

... . This is where the years of interaction really helped immensely. Because my THOR, your Thermal Operations and Resource Officer, Victor C. Herod, had spent years working with his counterparts in Japan ... see. That was really the premiere for the Japanese, for their real-time flight control operations. First time they’d had flight directors. Watching their team execute and perform under pressure ...

... that experience gave me such an awareness of what goes on with mission operations; the planning, the real-time operations themselves, the console work, the pyramid of support people that sit at ... first Spacelab mission, where we had what came to be called the POCC, the Payload Operations Control Center, which was in another room somewhere. They had their own communications with the ... that announcement, and that was the thing that formally declared that the Space Shuttle was operational. That was part of the same deal. I remember having a different opinion about that ...

... :''' Right. '''Rusnak:''' Did you work on that? '''Dumis:''' I supported it from the MOD Mission Operations Directorate standpoint. It was basically an engineering function, but we did support it. '''Rusnak:''' What ... course, was our guys. Typically in those Apollo days, the NASA guys operated front room consoles, and the contractors operated backroom consoles. There were some real sharp guys back there. We had ...

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