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... to be eliminated regardless exactly how the initiation occurred. It wouldn't have change d anything… So we don't know exactly what started it . All of a sudden there was a ... like something, the computer doesn't let it go. They said, "Oh, why’d it scrub? I don't know, it shut down for some reason or the other." Then they've ... .” Well, we started to work on this, and Dr. Donald D. Don Bogard and I got together. Now, Don Bogard did his Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas. He’s a cosmochemist, and ...

... ’t have to do anything like retrofire with John. So it was—I don’t know if you’d call it a textbook Mercury mission, but I think it was close, from ... written chits. The most impressive person in the Mission Evaluation Room during this time was Don Donald D. Arabian, who led these teams in the Mission Evaluation Room and led some of ... , we’d have meetings where we’d come together and then Don would be there and I’d be there and Jim Hannigan and others, and we’d chalk talk and have engineering meetings. Don really ...

... generally figuring retrofires to land at certain points and so forth. In those days—people don't realize, but in the early sixties, computers were tremendously unreliable. Very poor in terms ... cards, you'd jump into a taxicab, you'd drive to the University of Houston, you'd carry them in there, you'd submit them to a dispatcher, and then basically you don't get ... have ever imagined where it would all lead you? '''Cassetti:''' No, not at all. I don't think anybody does, really, unless—like I said, I was perfectly happy testing airplanes ...

... flight? '''O'Connor:''' You know, I don’t really remember exactly when I found out about it. The process, though, I remember, was that you’d get a call to go over ... end of the arm, and I’d be in there with her, talking to this nonentity out there, pretending like we were doing EVAs. So I don’t know, we got very ... or any other duties that you had during that flight that you’d like to talk about? '''O'Connor:''' I don’t remember anything outstanding. There were a lot of things we ...

... Washington, DC – 21 August 1998 '''Kelly:''' The following interview of the Honorable Don Fuqua was conducted in Washington, D.C., on August 21, 1998. The interview was conducted by Michelle Kelly and ... have anything to do. And could you use that for commercial launches? I don't know how you'd do that, but it would certainly help defray some of the overhead of the program. And I don't know what, commercial launches or something. But I think ...

... May 2005 '''Wright:''' Today is May 27th, 2005. This interview is being conducted with Dr. Don Lind in Houston, Texas, for the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. The interviewer ... people that you’d listed as references, and finally they got it down to several hundred, and I was still in. Then they cut it down further ; I don’t know all ... other colleges like Reed College up in Portland, Oregon, where everything is teaching and they don’t do any significant research. I thought, “Now, I will need to establish the proper ...

... 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 called a Panterra, which is a very ... like that. '''Wright:''' I mentioned to you about patience, but Don Lind had waited since 1966. '''Gregory:''' Yes, he waited. He’d been waiting. '''Wright:''' Did you ever have an opportunity to ... , and I was a citizen of Washington, D.C. I was confused because I thought everybody loved D.C., but Overmyer was from Cleveland Ohio , and Don Lind was Salt Lake City, Utah ...

... was a real luxury. We had an organization at NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. called Bellcom Inc. . I don’t know whether anybody else had mentioned that name or not, but anyway ... a few. '''Wright:''' Did you have any other unique assignments that stand out? '''Beck:''' I don’t believe. Not really. '''Wright:''' You mentioned earlier you wanted to go back, all the ... 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 be peripheral, with companies or ...

... and said, “Well, this is obviously not a place for the common man, because you don’t have any lines in the mall.” That was an interesting insight. Once Alexei said ... the cross-hairs. We docked at a very slow rate, somewhere probably in the—I don’t remember exactly, but in the neighborhood of one foot-per-second closure rate. When ... you’d be able to go from one craft to the other, no longer on the ground but in space? '''Brand:''' Well, yes, it probably took about three hours. I don’t ...

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