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... ) German Space Operations Center in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich would have responsibility for the 80 Spacelab D-1 (D for Deutschland) experiments. During the welcoming ceremony, ( KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC ) Director Dick Smith said ... long Spacelab module containing the space sled and a unique support structure. Half of the D-1 experiments were from Germany, the remainder from the U.S. and European countries. Investigations included ...

... Infobox Spacecraft Name = '''''Anik D2'''''
Image = Image:AnikD.jpg 200px Organization = National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States), ... Telecommunications Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=Anik%20D2 Here Carrier_Rocket = Shuttle Telesat-H (Anik D2) was a Canadian communications satellite deployed by the STS 51-A ...

... confirmed the problem. Although NASA and its contractors had developed procedures to operate the TDRS-1, these procedures were not acceptable for multiple spacecraft operations, requiring modifications for TDRS-B and ... remanifest TDRS-B. NASA would place the Anik -C (Telesat-l) satellite scheduled for the STS 51-E mission on the Discovery STS 51-D mission and delay retrieval of the Long ...

Image:Anik1_Delta.jpg 300px Delta launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral carrying Anik 1 satellite.

... ’t aircraft designers like the people from AVRO. They were range people and people who’d worked in ground support operations, radar sites, and probably control centers in other programs. They ... , but I didn’t interact with the decision process extensively. '''Rusnak:''' Is there anything you’d like to say about Walt Kapryan? I’m just curious about him personally. '''Aldrich:''' Walt ... competition between Johnson and Marshall was right after we launched the Orbital Workshop. The Skylab 1 first flight had the micrometeoroid protection on the outside of the workshop come off during ...

... 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 ... , helicopters, boats, all standing by in case there would be an emergency. So for STS-1, I was on the taxiway near the Shuttle landing strip, sitting in a helicopter, waiting ...

... 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 ... they had, I've forgotten the number of people they had working out there, like 1,700 people, I think, already out there at Rockwell, at Vandenberg, but, you see, this ... ’ve certainly had a fascinating career. '''Annexstad:''' Oh, I’ve enjoyed it thoroughly. '''Butler:''' I’d like to give Kevin a chance now to ask you a couple of questions. '''Rusnak ...

... 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 ... our group didn’t, until we came to MSC Manned Spacecraft Center on NASA Road 1, when they built the new building, and that was probably 19 ’64. Perhaps the engineering ...

... 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 ... duties. You mentioned the SMS Liaison Officer. Was that what you did primarily through STS-1 and -2? '''O'Connor:''' Yes, the first two flights, I was involved with that. Of ...

... . 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 ... an airplane ticket in return. '''Butler:''' Wow. That's great. '''Cassetti:''' And then when I'd get back, I would take my receipt of that and whatever else—travel was much ... by airplanes, not rockets necessarily, because there weren't really, other than the German V-1 rockets, there weren't really many rockets. But rockets had my interest, and I did ...

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