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... ’t aircraft designers like the people from AVRO. They were range people and people who’d worked in ground support operations, radar sites, and probably control centers in other programs. They ... . But we over the years got to know them pretty well. '''Rusnak:''' Any stories you’d like to share about them in particular? '''Aldrich:''' No. Laughter '''Rusnak:''' At least not that ... , but I didn’t interact with the decision process extensively. '''Rusnak:''' Is there anything you’d like to say about Walt Kapryan? I’m just curious about him personally. '''Aldrich:''' Walt ...

... sometimes. Not many, but a couple times before flight or something like that, where they'd throw simulated problems at us… But that was the reason for the Mission Evaluation Room ... 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 ... ’ve certainly had a fascinating career. '''Annexstad:''' Oh, I’ve enjoyed it thoroughly. '''Butler:''' I’d like to give Kevin a chance now to ask you a couple of questions. '''Rusnak ...

... 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 ...

... active Junior ROTC Reserve Officer’s Training Corps program in the high schools in Washington, D.C. The program was mandatory for tenth graders and voluntary for eleventh and twelfth graders ... exposure was in 1953, when this integrated Boy Scout troop traveled by train from Washington, D.C., to Irvine, California, to participate in a Boy Scout Jamboree, fifty thousand boys out ... how quickly you crossed the ground; how, with great regularity, every forty-five minutes you’d either have daylight or dark; how quickly that occurred, about seven miles per second; how ...

... and fulfill before that docking could actually take place. '''Brand:''' Well, I was, I’d guess you’d say, command and service module specialist. Deke was docking module specialist. Tom was boss ... the ground. We did joint experiments. Anyway, it was all working per plan, and we’d actually be together practiced all these things in joint simulations before the actual flight. '''Wright ...

... . 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 ... an airplane ticket in return. '''Butler:''' Wow. That's great. '''Cassetti:''' And then when I'd get back, I would take my receipt of that and whatever else—travel was much ... many different stories. One of them was that since Goddard was so close to Washington, D.C. and Congress and they were doing so many special projects of their own, that ...

... = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Frederick D. Gregory header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Jan 7 1941 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ... -2; Flight Data File Manager; lead spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM); Chief, Operational Safety, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.; Chief, Astronaut Training; and a member of the Orbiter Configuration Control Board and the ...

... = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Thomas D. Jones header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Jan 22 1955 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 = Date of Death data5 = label6 = Place of Death data6 = label7 = Occupation data7 = NASA Astronaut, (Ph.D.) label8 = Nationality data8 = label9 = Notable Works data9 = Personal Data Born January 22, 1955, in Baltimore ...

... = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Charles D. Walker header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Aug 29 1948 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 ... appointed Special Assistant to the President of McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, working in Washington, D.C Mr. Walker has been an industry member of the NASA Microgravity Material Science Assessment ...

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