Search wiki using Sphinx

Jump to: navigation, search

... 316 pages, $3.95'' Lonely Sky tells the personal story of test pilot of the D-558-2 "Skyrocket" rocket powered airplane. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space ... Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961.'' by Frederick I. Ordway III Category:Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology by ...

... provides a useful history of such research airplanes as the German Me163 and America's D-558-2, X1A, X1B, X2, X3, X4, X5, and XF92, which takes up over a third ... Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961.'' by Frederick I. Ordway III Category:Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology by Frederick ...

... never lived in Texas. Why don’t we move there.” And I had. I’d been living in west Texas, but I’d never been in the Houston area, so we didn’t know anything ... are three wonderful major advances in science, to the point that I can honestly say that would I die tomorrow, I’d feel I’ve had an incredibly full, wonderful life in exploration. The very ... make anything, and they just loved to get into this. Then when I’d come back, we’d sit down and I’d talk about it and “This worked,” and “That didn’t work,” and ...

... come down to interview for the astronaut program.” And I mean, I was absolutely shocked. I’d had a little hint of it, though, because I was beginning to get calls from friends from all ... , but I’d always had sports cars and I had this series of Ferraris, and one morning I just said, “I don’t need these cars anymore.” Actually, I’d sold my last Ferrari and I’d bought something ... . The first couple of days, D.C. was where I concentrated all my views, and I was a citizen of Washington, D.C. I was confused because I thought everybody loved D.C., but Overmyer was from ...

... Oral History Project. The interviewer is Kevin Rusnak, assisted by Rebecca Wright and Sandra Johnson. I’d like to thank you for taking time out to meet with us today. If we ... Santiago, we had a NASA tracking station for unmanned programs. I’d had no connection with them, but when I got there, I was met by the NASA station manager. It wasn’t a ... time we were certain about our systems and our process in Florida, and we’d flown Gemini I and II. So for Gemini III, the control center in Florida was prime and ...

... lot of people, a lot of interesting people. Besides the sites were pretty shitty. '''Rusnak:''' I'd be interested to hear about the atmosphere at some of these sites, specifically the ones ... day, just trying to stay awake, going across the room, because if I sat down, I'd fall asleep. And we'd party at night, you know, because that's the way we lived ... going to be a massive challenge. '''Rusnak:''' Okay. Carol? Okay. '''Fendell:''' That's it? '''Rusnak:''' I'd like to thank you for sitting down and talking with us for a few hours ...

... get fifty Shuttle payload bays full of payloads?” Just on the back of the envelope, I’d say, “At so many dollars a pound for payload, that’s—.” And at that time ... data. But it was really a significant comprehensive effort. It was the first step that I’d ever seen for coming up with a long-range plan for what we ought to ... that are getting an education and growing in engineering, to say, “This is something that I’d like to be a part of.” They don’t have to be mainstream; they can ...

... called the Intourist Hotel, which was a Western hotel, fairly new at that time. '''Wright:''' I’d like for us to move closer in to the time that you launched, for that ... that walk into the spacecraft that would take you on to your mission. '''Brand:''' Well, I’d made similar walks practicing to do that, but it was a nice feeling to know ... to play 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 ...

... 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 more simple ... down there with—you would have to have a signed set of travel orders. So I'd get the secretary to type up some travel orders, and generally she would sign them ... paper, which was the tenth carbon copy of something that you could barely read, and I'd take it down to the cashier's window, and she would try to see how ...

... you again for joining us today and agreeing to be a part of our program. I’d like to start today by asking you to briefly describe how you first became interested ... , but it was my first introduction to it. It wasn’t really until 1977, after I’d been a couple of years in Patuxent River doing flight test work, when NASA asked ... colder winter things. Little did we know how terrible the summers could be in Houston. I’d trade the winters here for the summers there anytime. But we heard that the schools ...

Powered by Sphinx