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... I knew in the control center believed the Agena was the cause of this problem. This thing, now, we’d flown Geminis before, we’d had all this experience over the past, and ... , a systems person and a propulsion person. So we had four consoles doing Gemini and Agena. Agena didn’t fly on all the Geminis, but it took all the preparation and training ... Melvin F. Brooks was made head of the Agena and Lunar Module Systems Branch. So we melded the team of people who’d been working CSMs and LMs for Apollo and pretty ...

... that aspect of the thing, and then also the interfaces between the Atlas and the Agena… Engineering-wise, I worked those parts and ran that stuff. That was the main function ... is very interesting. Remember I told you I was responsible for this design between the Agena and the spacecraft. Well, it started out, this is the way that the McDonnell and ... thing… These atmospheric electricity guys… were eleated over that. "Oh, look, they triggered lightning." They'd been studying trigger lightning… and here’s an actual case. It was a big deal ...

... . That was the foregone conclusion, that they were building this new Space Center outside Washington, D.C., and this group was just temporarily housed at Langley to eventually move there. I ... Apollo Program to the moon. It involved rendezvousing with and lashing up a couple of Agena second-stages, to use those to get the necessary velocity to go to the moon ... do you keep yourself in place to work, and then some problems even with the Agena on one not having separated— '''Cassetti:''' Yes, the masking tape on the shroud. Yes. '''Butler ...

Image:AgenaA.jpg 200px Agena A upper stage Category:Spacecraft

Image:AtlasAgenaBMariner1.jpg 200px Atlas Agena B launch with Mariner 1 planetary probe Category:Launch Vehicle

... 2004''' /The questions in this transcript were asked during an oral history session with Harold D. Beck. Beck has amended the answers for clarification purposes. As a result, this transcript does ... recording. / '''Wright:''' Today is December 9th, 2004. This oral history is being conducted with Harold D. Hal Beck in Houston, Texas, for the NASA for the Johnson Space Center Oral History ... trajectories because machine time was so precious and lunar trajectory iterations were so consuming. We’d go over to the University of Houston Houston, Texas on the midnight shift to get ...

... being conducted for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Sandra Johnson is the interviewer and is assisted by Rebecca Wright. I want to ... , for examples. Several of them went down to NASA Kennedy Space Center Florida and they’d spend all week every week down there preparing for that first flight, getting the Space ... they called the SAIL Shuttle Avionics Integration Lab test pilots or SAIL commanders, where they’d go over to the lab and fly missions in that simulator, testing the software. And ...

... active Junior ROTC Reserve Officer’s Training Corps program in the high schools in Washington, D.C. The program was mandatory for tenth graders and voluntary for eleventh and twelfth graders ... exposure was in 1953, when this integrated Boy Scout troop traveled by train from Washington, D.C., to Irvine, California, to participate in a Boy Scout Jamboree, fifty thousand boys out ... how quickly you crossed the ground; how, with great regularity, every forty-five minutes you’d either have daylight or dark; how quickly that occurred, about seven miles per second; how ...

... and fulfill before that docking could actually take place. '''Brand:''' Well, I was, I’d guess you’d say, command and service module specialist. Deke was docking module specialist. Tom was boss ... the ground. We did joint experiments. Anyway, it was all working per plan, and we’d actually be together practiced all these things in joint simulations before the actual flight. '''Wright ... . We could look outside during reentry on the dark side of the Earth after we’d started down over probably…the Indian Ocean, we could look outside and see what appeared ...

... = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Frederick D. Gregory header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Jan 7 1941 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ... -2; Flight Data File Manager; lead spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM); Chief, Operational Safety, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.; Chief, Astronaut Training; and a member of the Orbiter Configuration Control Board and the ...

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