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... Burton G. Cour-Palais - Interviewed by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal''' '''Canyon Lake, Texas – 1 March 2004''' '''Ross-Nazzal:''' ... it landed on the Moon, there the environment was dust. We knew from Rangers and Surveyors and things like that, that dust was constantly floating around, and that was what we ... for several years, and when Bean and Conrad, or whoever it was, they visited that Surveyor 3 and they brought back the camera housing and they brought back a couple of ...

... concepts to distribute the astronauts’ weight uniformly which allowed the astronauts to tolerate the high G loads . That was the savior to Faget’s configuration. That was the thing that allowed ... had two projects that I worked on, I was the manager of. In the event Surveyor didn’t take pictures of the landing sites on the Moon, there was an alternative ... to go back to Washington to report to the NASA Administrator. Anyway, it turns out Surveyor worked fine, so they never needed it. Then they thought about trying to put those ...

... 1966 and 1968 by five robotic spacecraft, built by the Hughes Aircraft Corporation, and named Surveyor. This short, but critically important program consumed $426 million of NASA's budget in just ... stage, but also that of the robust and ingenious Surveyor probes. Mankind sent explorers to six different lunar locations but the Surveyors visited five entirely different landing sites, and returned over 87 ...

Image:Surveyor.jpg 200px Surveyor lunar landing spacecraft Category:Spacecraft

... more. Space Shuttle astronauts experience around three g's on take-off and reentry— this is due to acceleration. As little as four g's can cause a person to black out without the aid of a g-suit. With a g-suit the human body can handle seven g's sustained. Blacking out from g-forces can cause brain damage or even ...

... big room. I'm going to mention the ones that later became space people. Harold G. Johnson. He probably died before you all started, too. Sig Sigurd A. Sjoberg had just ... impressive people—Dick Richard E. Battin, Milt Milton B. Trageser, Ralph R. Ragan, Davey David G. Hoag. They were really fantastic. The role they had played in the Polaris guidance system ... , we did a big development program on electrical actuators. We have hydraulics instead. Guy Joseph G. Thibodaux—no, not Guy Thibodaux. One of the guys who became later—got Max's ...

... 2003 /The questions in this transcript were asked during an oral history session with Eugene G. Edmonds. Mr. Edmonds has amended the answers for clarification purposes. As a result, this transcript ... new astronauts that were going to fly on the Shuttle Training Aircraft in the zero-G weightless program, and they would fly almost every day and require two photographers. They were ... coverage was where we first began using color film. Our engineering instrumentation aircraft, chase, zero-G and others still required very fast film and the best F-stop possible in most ...

... =1995-035B Here PDMP Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experimentSearch.do?spacecraft=TDRS-G Here Telecommunications Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=TDRS-G Here Data Collection = Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle TDRS-G was an American geostationary Tracking and Data Relay Satellite launched from ...

... = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Karl G. Henize header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Oct 17 1926 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ... from Kennedy Space Center , Florida, on July 29, 1985. He was accompanied by Col. Charles G. Fullerton (spacecraft commander), Col. Roy D. Bridges (pilot), fellow mission specialists, Dr's. Anthony W ...

... titlestyle = image = Image:Astronaut_bowen.jpg 200px imagestyle = caption = Stephen G. Bowen captionstyle = headerstyle = background: ccf; labelstyle = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Stephen G. Bowen header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Feb 13 1964 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ...

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