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... , necessarily, for those missions. So the choice was to stay with the new version or a modified version of the Apollo suit. And from the standpoint of, there wasn't a lot ... be retrieved and brought and we can reconnect either hydraulics—there's a hydraulic version—or an electrical version. So we had a lot of different kinds of hardware designs, as well ... in the Thermochemical Test Area, and we put a scratch in one on purpose, hooked it up, and hooked up a 6,000-pound pressure vessel and blew them up. Man, I ...

... directly to an OCU, an Operational Conversion Unit, onto Lincoln bombers, which was the stretch version of the World War II Lancaster, main British bomber of the day, four Rolls-Royce ... go over it and go on. So we designed a little grappling hook. You know what a grappling hook is. They use them in the Navy on boats. But I'm talking ... hardest thing was to get the Program Office people to put his 10-ounce grappling hook in the spacecraft but George Low did see the benefit. We never used it operationally ...

... other side. This guy was standing there when we got up there, with this big hook, maybe about, I guess, a sixteenth of an inch wide, right through here and out ... about you faking a heart attack during that. So I was curious to hear your version of those events. '''Fendell:''' All right, I'll tell you about that. Let me see ... , Manned Orbital Lab, that the Air Force was going to fly, which was basically a version of the Gemini vehicle. They were building a control center at Sunnyvale California . They had ...

... which is natural which is infinite which is ye '' Editorial Note: Rusty Schweickart presented a version of this “story” at the 1974 Lindisfarne Conference. Printed with the permission of Rusty Schweickart ... -time Soyuz flyer like me. Jettisoning of the heat shield, blowing the BARD valve, re-hooking the chute and the forward cocking of our seats all happened within seconds of each ...

... was a little kind of knitting hook, and we put a cutting blade inside the hook so that I could—it was easier to grab a hook around the safety wire and then ... snips in there. So by looking with the flashlight in the mirror, and then the hook, I could get the safety wire off. And then we took a pair of pliers ... went wrong and come up with a better spacecraft. So there was a Block II version of the spacecraft that required many thousands of hours of redesign and, of course, refabrication ...

... for the flight software, so I was supposed to be doing just a pared-down version for the crew. Well, it was mostly for the crew, because I think it was ... computers and flight software just for the Control Center training. We had to get early versions of the flight software for the simulator. So anyway, as we were getting ready, there ... went to the office. There was nobody there, and the phone was ringing off the hook, so I just started answering the phone, taking messages, and all I knew was that ...

... physically do that, but they did. So the end result is they had the accelerometers hooked up in reverse. So when…the control system was engaged in flight, the airplane darn ... Apollo. The idea then of having—which we didn't really need it in my version—the Gemini really didn't need any extravehicular astronaut activity, but obviously in developing suits ... point or another, I made a suggestion that they really ought to use an advanced version of the Gemini platform and put two of them in the LEM , and apparently some ...

... eight hours for any one station. So you only needed three stations to keep yourself hooked into a lunar activity. So that was usually somewhere on the West Coast, Ames Research ... . So as the Earth rotated, you could switch from one to the other and stay hooked into the spacecraft as it was on its outgoing leg, and similarly on its return ... ’s still room to improve it, but it’s wonderfully elegant compared to the documented version. They’ve got it all done with gadgets and things. However, the business of communications ...

... could operate easily. With modification, it had a between-the-lens shutter, and the earlier versions had a so-called, I think what they called it, a capping shutter at the ... , but we proceeded, anyhow, at Wes’ direction. He said, “Well, hook up some of these buildings.” So I think we hooked up four buildings on a Saturday, and since we were going ...

... one of these people is the system expert. So on all the important stuff, like hooking connectors or umbilicals or doing power or data or fluid line connections, they have to ... our duration for their activities, we think it’s going to take an hour to hook up the umbilicals for this workstation rack, they don’t know exactly how long. They ... SCSC, which is our Shuttle Crew Scheduling Constraints document. This is a Reader’s Digest version. We’ve pulled off the important points and put it on two pages. We have ...

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