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... – 26 November 2002 '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Today is November 26, 2002. This oral history with David C. Leestma is being conducted for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project at the ... '''Bergen:''' And then you went into the Shuttle. '''Ewart:''' On to the Shuttle, yes. '''Bergen:''' Did you work on any of the preliminary designs for Shuttle? '''Ewart:''' We followed them, and there ...

... . Interesting sidelight to this, what we're talking about there, I worked for Jim James C. Fletcher when he was the administrator in the early seventies. At his retirement, his second ... . It was causing a back pressure, and actually it was bending some components on the Shuttle. Not a good situation. We were in endless meetings on how to solve that, contractors ... -ho. This is the Grissom Elementary School, and they've had some experiments on the Shuttle. '''Butler:''' Great. '''Bostick:''' In fact, you could give them the Mars project and they'd ...

... Canadian Space Summit 2015 Vancouver B.C. November 19, 2015'' Abstract Twenty-five years ago last April, the space shuttle Discovery delivered the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) into orbit around the Earth ... various difficulties, and just months before the scheduled date, the space shuttle Challenger was lost during launch. The space shuttle program was stood down for more than two years, and the launch ...

... . But the next long-term thing on the horizon was the Shuttle. So, after Apollo 17 flew, I worked on the Shuttle, and I worked cockpits and displays and controls. Always been ... other than some instrumentation, and those flights, Fitz Fitzhugh L. Fulton Jr. and Tom Thomas C. McMurtry and flight engineers flew those five to the point where they said, “Okay, the ... airplane regularly, all through the years I was working on Shuttle. I also then, after STS-3, checked out on the Shuttle carrier 747. So I was able to keep my hand ...

... datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = James C. Adamson header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Mar 3 1946 header4 = label4 = Birth Place ... reliability based maintenance program for the Space Shuttle program. He also initiated an enhancements program for Shuttle ground processing. In February 1988 Adamson was ...

... 990 modified to test space shuttle landing gear components during many very high-speed landings. Other projects for which he had flown in the past included the C-140 JetStar Laminar Flow Control; F-111 Mission Adaptive Wing; F-14 Variable Sweep Flow Transition; Space Shuttle drag chute and F-111 crew ... , California. His assignments included a variety of flight research and support activities piloting the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) and other multi-engine and high performance aircraft. Jan-08 :Category:Astronaut ...

... to get it certified that it indeed can plug into Shuttle power and not disturb Shuttle power, and your box will work off Shuttle power, there’s a specialized lab, the power lab ... it’s down here in the first floor of 16. I’m sure Bill William C. Hoffman over there in EP could talk about that. That’s been around a while ... seventies, you had the shutdown of Apollo, and then you transition the workforce basics to Shuttle. Well, Shuttle is long-term, and all a sudden, you drop in Station—very complex program ...

... 's great. As you were training and going through and they were completing the Shuttle, the first Shuttle mission, STS-1, launched in 1981, so this is right as you were coming ... the process of looking at getting another aircraft to carry the Shuttle around, a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft SCA as opposed to a Shuttle training aircraft. So, did a lot of work on that ... pretty much normal, with one exception. Then when we were all done and Kathy Kathryn C. Thornton was going to deploy it, they had made a change in the wiring of ...

... top of that, the management of the program from both the NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. point of view and the Center point of view was such that Gilruth, who was ... it starts burning and giving you thrust. Whereas when you start up the SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine , you see all that fire and smoke and all that preburning and preshaping ... view was equivalent. But not from the total aspect. I was asked after the first Shuttle flight for a statement to the press, and I said, "We just became infinitely smarter ...

... = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Clayton C. Anderson header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Feb 23 1959 header4 = label4 = Birth ... and tours, numerous scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in shuttle and International Space Station systems, physiological training, ground school to prepare ...

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