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... with all contractors. The R&D contractors that were responsible for the command and service module, which was North American Aviation Inc. or North American Aircraft. I don’t remember the exact ... and Space Shuttle. '''Beckett:''' I think that it was easily that much. Maybe 95. I don’t know. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Pretty impressive record. '''Beckett:''' They did a good job for them ... Rudolph G. Gerdin were out of the Mechanical Systems Branch. Grady E. McCright and Don Donald R. Visness were out of the Electrical Branch. George P. Demchok and Rene De La Fuente ...

... MOL Manned Orbiting Laboratory program going. They were in the leader's seat. But Robert R. Gilruth and Charlie Charles J. Donlan and their strategy, and the guys at Headquarters was ... want to throw it away and come up with something cheaper. And I don't see it. I don't see anything cheaper. VentureStar, you know, they've loaded that dang vehicle ... what Kranz always said, "Just go do your job and make it work. Don't tell me—don't come back with excuses." That's what John Llewellyn was so fantastic, because ...

... by Michelle Kelly 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 ... were just taking off and nuclear medicine was just coming into being. We had, I don't remember what the committee was called, but a select committee on nuclear regulation for ... H. Engle and John Young, and I've forgot who all else now, Dick Jack R. Lousma, Vance D. Brand, all the early Shuttle pilots. We said, "Do you guys have ...

... go to Wallops Island in Virginia where the small missiles were being fired. Dr. Robert R. Gilruth was the man more or less in charge, even at that time. So there ... break you said you wanted to talk about some of the unmanned missions. So why don’t you tell us about what you did. '''Brinkmann:''' Before the manned flights, there were ... can see them relative— '''Brinkmann:''' All of those that are in storage? '''Bergen:''' Well, I don’t know exactly which ones are all available, but I know many of them are ...

... wanted to know who designed the Spitfire, and how did he get started … It was R.J. Mitchell. When I learned more about him and the fact that he had designed ... was, though, that university professors and people who work in universities, and even instrumentations labs…don't have the same attitude as design people. They can be very good overseers, because ... attitude was… that avionics software and electronics is… the future . Structures and propulsion and aerodynamicists don't understand electronics, so they shouldn't be in charge. That's not a very ...

... this, and we had some great leaders like Walt Walter C. Williams and Bob Robert R. Gilruth. '''Rusnak:''' It’s certainly because of the hard work of people like yourself that ... Vietnam, these kinds of large issues? '''Haines:''' Yes, we were aware of it, but I don’t think we involved ourselves in it very much. '''Rusnak:''' Bringing you back to Edwards ... completely different type of aircraft, something smaller or larger or something completely new? '''Haines:''' I don’t think we ever considered anything new. We did talk about smaller aircraft, for example ...

... impacted operations or the facility at JSC? '''Brandenburg:''' Of course, it impacted the people. I don’t know that it impacted anything else because there was nothing we could do about ... at that point, or equipment, while we were down? '''Brandenburg:''' Result of that? No, I don’t recall anything that was done directly as a result of that. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' After ... :''' Matter of fact, what I wrote down here is—I don’t know if you guys did an oral with Dennis R. Hehir. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' No, his name doesn’t sound familiar ...

... Matthew R. Abbott - Interviewed by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal''' '''Houston, Texas – 23 July 2009''' '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Today is ... can be very conservative, and rightly so, because we want to make sure that we don’t break the hardware. At the same time, sometimes that conservatism can be so extensive ... so severe that you basically can’t finish what you’re doing. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' You don’t want to kill the crew, in other words. '''Abbott:''' Right, exactly, that’s exactly ...

... George R. Carruthers - Interviewed by Glen Swanson''' '''Washington, DC – 25 March 1999''' '''Swanson:''' Today is March 25, ... . Did you find, because of your race, any obstacles in your education career? '''Carruthers:''' I don't think that I really had any overt obstacles in my college education. Of course ... just how it's going to rate in the overall mix of things, I don't know. I don't even know if Dan Daniel S. Goldin has that answer. '''Swanson:''' You ...

... 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 ... the weightlessness or something, so that we could verify that the design was correct. I don’t know that we made any major inputs into the design of the Command Module ... 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 ...

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