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... during this phase when you were— '''Gibson:''' It was during the very early phase. Al Alan C. Holt, who was in flight crew support, and I decided that the guys didn ... 't reduce the odds, the first lunar landing, for example, or Apollo 8, or Al Alan B. Shepard Jr. on the first Mercury, I mean, those kinds of things, those really ... go from four Gs to one and a half and then back to around one G or so when you light on the second stage. And all that happens real quick ...

... '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Today is September 30th, 2005. This oral history session is being conducted with Alan Kehlet of NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia , and STG ... talked about, was one of them. Bill William W. Petynia was my deputy, and Bruce G. Jackson and other people were all in that group, and they were all excellent aerodynamicists ...

... impressive people—Dick Richard E. Battin, Milt Milton B. Trageser, Ralph R. Ragan, Davey David G. Hoag. They were really fantastic. The role they had played in the Polaris guidance system ... the Rich Building. But my assistant branch chief was a guy—what was his name Alan B. Kehlet ? … An aerodynamicist who had worked for Faget in PARD and we two came ... , we did a big development program on electrical actuators. We have hydraulics instead. Guy Joseph G. Thibodaux—no, not Guy Thibodaux. One of the guys who became later—got Max's ...

... 2003 /The questions in this transcript were asked during an oral history session with Eugene G. Edmonds. Mr. Edmonds has amended the answers for clarification purposes. As a result, this transcript ... and did nothing that time. Then when they were ready to launch the first one, Alan B. Shepard, on the first Mercury mission, the Navy photographers took all of the pictures ... coverage was where we first began using color film. Our engineering instrumentation aircraft, chase, zero-G and others still required very fast film and the best F-stop possible in most ...

... fast-paced. So I joined the group and worked in the aerodynamics section under Al Alan B. Kehlet. He was my mentor then from then on. He was head of the ... . The organization I was in did all that pioneering work. Have you talked to Joseph G. “Guy” Thibodaux yet? Great guy. Memory like a hawk. That guy has got an incredible ... concepts to distribute the astronauts’ weight uniformly which allowed the astronauts to tolerate the high G loads . That was the savior to Faget’s configuration. That was the thing that allowed ...

... Burton G. Cour-Palais - Interviewed by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal''' '''Canyon Lake, Texas – 1 March 2004''' '''Ross-Nazzal:''' ... , I don’t know who the astronauts were. I’m sure Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean. Earlier, we had launched the Surveyor probes to try and find out what ...

... ; labelstyle = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Alan L. Bean header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Mar 15 1932 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 ... honorary doctorate of engineering science degree from the University of Akron (Ohio) in 1974. Experience Alan Bean, a Navy ROTC Student at Texas, was commissioned upon graduation in 1955. After completing ...

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