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... be done, and that was obviously one of the controlling things. We only had one Titan launch pad at the Cape. But we did that, we launched VII first, and then ... added the position of the guidance officer who in Gemini his primary responsibility was the Titan launch vehicle guidance system. So he, likewise, had mechanical plot boards, big, huge, humongous XY ... . 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 ...

... – 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 Johnson ... J. Kutyna from the Air Force, who had been in charge, I think, of the Titan program at the time, so he knew about solid rocket boosters also. He actually had ... subsystem designed by MIT, and later the manufacturing of the system was awarded to A.C. Electronics. We worked closely with Paul Ebersole. We worked closely with Aaron Cohen, who was ...

... Force black classified programs. They were people from the rocketry programs who built Atlases and Titans and other rockets for the Department of Defense. Frankly I think they were used to ... 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 ... these various categories of flights, which I suspect you've read about, Categories A, B, C, D. We said, "These are the objectives we want to accomplish in each one of ...

... Author - M.T. Morrow et al '''Co-Author(s)''' - M. T. Morrow; C. A. Woolsey; G. M. Hagerman '''JBIS Volume ''' - Contents of the Journal of the British Interplanetary ... analysis and dynamic modeling indicate the viability of using SCALARS to map the surface of Titan and to investigate features of interest. '''To BUY this paper click http://www.jbis.org ...

... of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 62 62 '''Page ''' - 162-174 '''Year''' - 2009 '''Keywords''' - Titan, mission design, aerocapture, balloon '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2009.62.162 '''Number of Pages''' - 13 Abstract ... of vehicle types including orbiters, landers, boats, airplanes, balloons and penetrators. Particularly recurrent themes in Titan exploration are the use of multiple platforms to address a wide range of scientific goals ...

... on top of a long cylindrical laboratory, which was all put into orbit on a Titan 3-M booster. So it was miniscule by even Apollo standards and certainly by current ... by now, and we wondered. I found an assignment here at Edwards to test the C-5 transport airplane, work on the test force here, and was ready to come up ... 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 ...

... British Interplanetary Society for Volume 61 61 '''Page ''' - 118-124 '''Year''' - 2008 '''Keywords''' - Titan UAV, Titan surface exploration, Titan aeronautics '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2008.61.118 '''Number of Pages''' - 7 Abstract A concept ... imagery, boundary-layer meteorological profiles and other data. The cold, thick atmosphere on low-gravity Titan makes a fixed- or moving-wing vehicle easy to fly, but requires substantial energy to ...

... British Interplanetary Society for Volume 61 61 '''Page ''' - 295-299 '''Year''' - 2008 '''Keywords''' - Cassini mission, Titan, Titan Radar Mapper '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2008.61.295 '''Number of Pages''' - 5 Abstract Several flybys of Titan have been successfully performed by the Cassini spacecraft. Among its instruments is a radar mapper ...

... 63 63 '''Page ''' - 9-14 '''Year''' - 2010 '''Keywords''' - Radioisotope power, Stirling Generator, Convective Heat transfer, Titan '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2010.63.9 '''Number of Pages''' - 6 Abstract Like other energy conversion ... Radioisotope Generator (ASRG) in the dense, cold atmosphere of Titan. We find the power output of an ideal RPS in the Titan environment could be considerably superior to that in space vacuum ...

... Code ''' - 2000.53.218 '''Number of Pages''' - 17 Abstract The likely scientific questions posed by Titan after the upcoming Cassini mission, and the engineering issues associated with the platforms required for ... structural challenges. Airships and helicopters appear to be quite feasible, given several advantageous aspects of Titan's environment, and would satisfy the broadest range of scientific objectives. '''To BUY this paper ...

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