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Image:TATAgenaD.jpg 200px Thrust Augmented Thor with Agena D stage Category:Launch Vehicle

... I knew in the control center believed the Agena was the cause of this problem. This thing, now, we’d flown Geminis before, we’d had all this experience over the past, and ... , a systems person and a propulsion person. So we had four consoles doing Gemini and Agena. Agena didn’t fly on all the Geminis, but it took all the preparation and training ... Melvin F. Brooks was made head of the Agena and Lunar Module Systems Branch. So we melded the team of people who’d been working CSMs and LMs for Apollo and pretty ...

... that aspect of the thing, and then also the interfaces between the Atlas and the Agena… Engineering-wise, I worked those parts and ran that stuff. That was the main function ... is very interesting. Remember I told you I was responsible for this design between the Agena and the spacecraft. Well, it started out, this is the way that the McDonnell and ... thing… These atmospheric electricity guys… were eleated over that. "Oh, look, they triggered lightning." They'd been studying trigger lightning… and here’s an actual case. It was a big deal ...

... . That was the foregone conclusion, that they were building this new Space Center outside Washington, D.C., and this group was just temporarily housed at Langley to eventually move there. I ... Apollo Program to the moon. It involved rendezvousing with and lashing up a couple of Agena second-stages, to use those to get the necessary velocity to go to the moon ... do you keep yourself in place to work, and then some problems even with the Agena on one not having separated— '''Cassetti:''' Yes, the masking tape on the shroud. Yes. '''Butler ...

... : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 271 pages, $4.50'' Documentary history of the development of the Thor intermediate range ballistic missile. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and ...

Image:ThorAbleStarTransit3A.jpg 200px Thor Able Star with Transit 3A satellite Category:Launch Vehicle

Image:AgenaA.jpg 200px Agena A upper stage Category:Spacecraft

Image:AtlasAgenaBMariner1.jpg 200px Atlas Agena B launch with Mariner 1 planetary probe Category:Launch Vehicle

... 2004''' /The questions in this transcript were asked during an oral history session with Harold D. Beck. Beck has amended the answers for clarification purposes. As a result, this transcript does ... recording. / '''Wright:''' Today is December 9th, 2004. This oral history is being conducted with Harold D. Hal Beck in Houston, Texas, for the NASA for the Johnson Space Center Oral History ...

... being conducted for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Sandra Johnson is the interviewer and is assisted by Rebecca Wright. I want to ... , for examples. Several of them went down to NASA Kennedy Space Center Florida and they’d spend all week every week down there preparing for that first flight, getting the Space ... they called the SAIL Shuttle Avionics Integration Lab test pilots or SAIL commanders, where they’d go over to the lab and fly missions in that simulator, testing the software. And ...

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