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... applies to a lot of things besides manned spaceflight. I give most of the credit for developing that concept to Chris Kraft. Walt Walter C. Williams was also involved, but I give ... launch window and other things and fuel efficiency, on 13 we were not on a free return trajectory. We had just passed within a few minutes the last direct abort opportunity ... maximum. So everybody was busy. In the trajectory arena, once we got them on a free return, then the immediate question—that was, by the way, back to the Indian Ocean ...

... Ross-Nazzal:''' Today is November 26, 2002. This oral history with David C. Leestma is being conducted for the Johnson Space Center Oral ... , because you go through wind-tunnel tests, you go through free-flight model tests and full-scale model tests. In that ... of course, the dummy spacecraft, the unmanned spacecraft and then the manned spacecraft. So there was a lot of hardware. '''Bergen:''' How ...

... for applications to compete for astronaut slots, and then the Manned Orbiting Laboratory Program also. So the Air Force took the ... and those flights, Fitz Fitzhugh L. Fulton Jr. and Tom Thomas C. McMurtry and flight engineers flew those five to the point where ... '''Wright:''' Yes, while you guys were having a, as you mentioned, free day, they were very busy down at White Sands preparing for your ...

... both the NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. point of view and the Center point of view was such that Gilruth, who was an extremely great man to work for, but not very ... engine at all operating no matter what. You can go at what we called a free-return trajectory, which means you could send this thing out like leading a bird, send ... want to deal with if you don't have to. On Mercury 10, urine got free. One of the bags broke. One of the urine bags broke in L. Gordon Cooper ...

... drafted, but as soon as the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, then I became free game for being inducted. I got my induction notice, I guess sometime in September of ... man—I had learned, certainly, that he was a top aeronautical scientist. He was quite a visionary, and he had come up with the concept of doing aeronautical research in free flight ... Design Section people. This was run by Caldwell C. Johnson, who had a major part in Mercury programs and subsequent programs in manned space flight. But you'd go to Caldwell, and ...

... (particularly as intended for sustained power or performance) –- for propelling manned aircraft to any reasonable distances. To these downsides ... or about 30, were of the compressed gas type. c) Steam as a separate category, when suggested or ... brochure ''Der freie menschliche Flug als Vorbedingung dynamischer Luftschiffahrt'' (''Free Human Flying as the Preliminary Condition of Dynamic ...

... was much later famous as the alma mater of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, and also where the double helix of DNA was first ... normal extrapolation you might expect from a religious man, but Leitch had no problem reconciling man's intellect with his faith-based conclusion that ... perhaps most importantly he took on the voice of advocate for a free and expansive system of further education in Canada. In 1861 he ...

... Interviewed by Michelle Kelly League City, Texas – 1 April 1998 / This oral history with Caldwell C. Johnson was conducted in the offices of Space Industries, League City, Texas on April 1 ... rocket? '''Johnson:''' Well, first off, part of the research that was going on between a man named Bill William E. Stoney and Robert O. Piland and Max Faget involved—one of ... Center then? You were there right through the initial stages, and then it was the Manned Spacecraft Center. '''Johnson:''' Yes, and before that it was a series of buildings downtown in ...

... , it represents no greater challenge than the commitment made in 1961 to land a man on the moon. MANNED PLANETARY MISSION - 1981 MARS LANDING MISSION PROFILE Image:MMLVB16.jpg 300px '''1981 Mars ... legs of the trip that are of prime scientific importance. The spacecraft represents a manned laboratory in space, free of the disturbing influences of the Earth. The fact that there will be ...

... night he fell asleep during his rounds, and his constant companion, a wolf, took the man's star bag and shook it out, scattering stars haphazardly throughout all the heavens. From then on the man spent his evenings lighting individual stars in the places where they had landed. Many different ... had both astrological and religious significance. Notable monuments such as the Great Sphinx at Giza (c. 2500 BCE), the four colossal statues of Rameses II in the Great Temple of Abu ...

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