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... , practicing every step of the procedures we were planning to perform. We looked at these precise activities and motions as “choreography”. Useful time outside the spacecraft was the limiting consumable on ... Figure 3.10. The Soyuz vehicle is a cozy spacecraft. (Courtesy of NASA.) Undocking occurred precisely on time. The recoiling springs of the docking mechanism provided the impulse that backed us ... NASA engineers and technicians who worked tirelessly to insure our safety and success. At 7:00 on the morning of the launch, as we walked out of crew quarters where we ...

... in the office every morning and have a staff meeting every morning like at 7:00 o’clock, get a status of what was going on, and find out what things ... ’clock, I’d be back out there sometimes at 11:00 or midnight or 2:00 o’clock in the morning and be there for the rest of the day. Be ... engineering yourself and understood what was going on. Then when the crews flew, you understood precisely what they were doing, which I think is a good thing. So I think I ...

... this whole thing, and I realized what had gone on. NASA was working literally 8:-00 to 4:30, and the contractors were working from 7:30 to 3:30, 4 ... this direction, and I realized that we had people that were coming in at 10:00 at night processing sample and doing it on their own and getting it all ready ... a sample. They had to send in a request letter, which had to be very precise. “This is what I want. This is what I want to do. This is how ...

... this whole thing, and I realized what had gone on. NASA was working literally 8:-00 to 4:30, and the contractors were working from 7:30 to 3:30, 4 ... this direction, and I realized that we had people that were coming in at 10:00 at night processing sample and doing it on their own and getting it all ready ... a sample. They had to send in a request letter, which had to be very precise. “This is what I want. This is what I want to do. This is how ...

... spacecraft exterior and interior. First S-IVB APS burn, lasting 217 sets beginning at 6:00 GET, aimed stage for lunar target point so accurately that second burn was not ... to determine cause of accident. Apollo 13 flight crew performance was outstanding throughout mission; calm, precise reaction to emergency and diligence in configuring and maintaining Lunar Module LM was noteworthy. ...

... ’re up at the crack of dawn. You’re out in the field by 7:00 a.m. You may not get back to the hotel till 7 ... that we did very systematically, we developed specific procedures for them to accomplish the sampling precisely. We had very detailed sampling procedures, the way they would document the samples with their ... do it. By the time we did Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, we did a precision landing on 12. We got up there and got back safely. The engineering objectives were ...

... ’s ability to measure changes in the brightness of exoplanet systems. One method involves precisely characterizing Spitzer’s detectors, specifically measuring “the sweet spot” -- a single pixel on the ... engineers and information booths about Ames’ space biology research. Schedule: 11:00 a.m. - Doors open 11:00 to 12:15 - Information booths available for viewing/interaction 12:15 to ...

... ," furnishing information on solar radiation for correct interpretation of Surveyor VI's soil analyses. At 00:04:06 GET Surveyor VI with two-burn Centaur separated from Atlas and ignited to ... target miss estimate, a 1.2-m midcourse maneuver was conducted at 00:18:41 GET to assure precise landing on target in Sinus Medii in center of moon's front face ...

... my selection to anyone until after NASA made the announcement to the press at 12:00 EST that day. I later discovered that NASA had called all two hundred finalists that ... . I greatly appreciated his comments and encouragement. On August 29th, we were awakened at 10:00 P.M. We had breakfast and suited up for the mission. We put on our ... , extended station keeping and deployment and retrieval of the SPAS with the RMS. This involved precision Orbiter maneuvering, IBSS/SPAS commanding, CIRRIS and IBSS observation sequences, and multibody management in a ...

... noted it might be more difficult to obtain desired precision and exact positions required for optimum photos of lunar surface. At approximately 00:28 GMT Aug. 11 planned midcourse maneuver was successfully ... nine potential landing areas. Spacecraft would also attempt to photograph SURVEYOR I landing sites; provide precision trajectory information; and monitor meteoroids and radiation intensity in lunar environment. Lunar Orbiter program was ...

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