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... the AVRO group, I worked with Fred, and it definitely was a mentoring situation. The Philco people that we worked with, again, the people who went to the remote sites with ... sure the contributions came from the AVRO people and their experience and the people from Philco and their experience. Very realistic simulation was always a hallmark of doing these missions right ... NASA, young, pretty much young engineers, and twenty or so systems monitors that were the Philco tech reps. I’m not as aware exactly how we collected all the aeromeds, but ...

... most gung-ho turned out, at that particular moment, to be Philco-Ford. We thought it would be reversed, because Philco-Ford had so many items of instrumentation laying all around the ... , the simulation director, the whatever whatever. That was a device, I think, was developed by Philco-Ford. All of these things were very rudimentary, but they were necessary, and it all ... , and I. John and this Colonel Abbott who was running Philco-Ford at the time, or I shouldn't say running Philco-Ford, he was running an element. There was a fellow ...

... that time. He was a Philco Philco Corp., later Philco-Ford Corp. contractor. Ed Dunbar was also a Philco contractor. The way we were organized at that time, the Philco contractors manned, for the most ... . As I remember, some of them were at Philco, or sometimes there might be an astronaut out there was a capcom. We had Philco people that worked with us in the control ...

... the FCC to prevent ComSatCorp from signing a "sole source" contract with Hughes Aircraft Co. Philco, which was already preparing a satellite system for DOD under a contract awarded in July ... that stringent time requirements impel waiver of the FCC's rules and regulations is insupportable," Philco said. Under ComSatCorp 's plan, DOD would be supplied 24 satellites built by Hughes Aircraft ...

... to, do you recall? '''Brandenburg:''' Let me see. It was a byproduct of old Philco-Ford. Philco-Ford, of course, built the original stuff in the control center, and they were actually ... ones, but the initial contractors in the building getting ready for Gemini and Apollo were Philco-Ford and IBM International Business Machines . The contracts to do the ops and development work ...

... brought in another fellow from the outside, who at the time was an executive for Philco Philadelphia Storage Battery Company to run the new center, and cost just got out of ... interesting, I just never felt that way in Houston. Now, maybe I was kidding myself. Philco was the name of the company, I think, that built—Bendix, I'm sorry. Bendix ... a team. I think Chris did with IBM and some of the other folks there, PHILCO. You know, they're the people that taught me, so I had that instilled in ...

... did say that in between you worked. You mentioned Aeronatronics and you also worked for Philco Corporation for a while, if that's correct, or maybe they were connected. '''Gibson:''' Yes ... and Aeronatronics were one and the same. It was Aeronatronic Division of the Ford-Philco Corporation. It was a year in which I was doing research in Newport Beach, California. ...

... in the Mission Control Center under construction at NASA Manned Space­craft Center , MSC announced. Philco was prime contractor for flight control equipment for the Project Gemini /Apollo facility, which was ...

... , 1967, were made final in $7,535,000 fixed-price-incentive-fee USAF contract with Philco-Ford Corp.'s Space and Re-entry Systems Div. First satellite would be launched into ... , equatorial orbit with Thor-Delta booster from ETR in 1968; second satellite would be backup. Philco-Ford would design satellites "to satisfy certain defense communications require­ments of the United Kingdom ...

... Aircraft Co. to build the satellites. But when the Philco Corp. protested to the FCC, the FCC required ComSatCorp to give Philco and other competitors a chance to show their capabilities. ''( ComSatCorp ...

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