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... ''' One of the most special clubs in the world is the Private Spaceflight Federation. This group, now well over a decade old, promotes the new personal commercial space industry. It’s ... and on time to ensure that our capsule intercepts the atmosphere at the right location and with the right velocity and orientation. Vigilance and accurate performance are paramount. At the start of ... the cabin. Venting reduces the oxygen saturation and flammability hazard. Image:FS2018f3.12.jpg thumb right 250px Figure 3.12. An overview of the Soyuz flight plan. (Courtesy of NASA.) Suspended ...

... the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG). This concept was unanimously agreed by the UN COPUOS and on December 2013. ref 9 Image:FS2018f15.4.jpg thumb right 250px Figure 15.4 ... red to indicate a significantly strengthening magnetic field. ref 12 Image:FS2018f15.5.jpg thumb right 250px Figure 15.5. Magnetic Field Changes. (Image courtesy of European Space Agency) This may ...

... Japanese module. Okay. So that’s easy enough. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Not much detail. '''Hasbrook:''' Yes, right, well, there’s a lot to installing and activating. You had to do spacewalks to ... could tie my lace left over right or right over left, what’s the difference? Well, left over right I could do it with one less step, but right over left ends up being ... consulting. Our social life was down here. A gal who worked in the Payload Operations Group was moving on to Space Station back in the Reston Virginia days, the early early ...

... third stage losing control, or it’s inertial platform drifting or not doing exactly the right thing, so that there were errors in the burn when the vehicle cut off and ... the ground controllers were comfortable with committing to using that process. The guys in my group developed those ideas and there were contractors supporting us. The TRW Incorporated people were subcontractors ... fun in my career. That era when I was in the engineering group and we had a small group and there was just loads of work and we all played well together ...

... .” Then he says, “Now you go here, and you turn immediately right here, and then you go to your right—no.” Then he says, “I don’t think you can get there ... guy, if you were saying what my specialty was. They created a group called the ISAGC Apollo guidance computer Control Group or something like that. I don’t remember the name, it ... minutes until each crew figured out that the nurses’ quarters for Massachusetts General Hospital was right across the river. This 60 powered telescope works really good. '''Wright:''' Oh gosh. Keep focused ...

... vehicle significantly, and people like Tom Moser and Bill William C. Schneider in the Structures group, and Norm Levine were very, very important in helping get the structure reduced. So I ... . How was that all going to work? Did you have all the right constants? Did you have all the right characteristics of the lunar surface? So it was tough to do. The ... think that's the problem. So I think we're on the right track. I think it's the right thing to do. I think basically it's going to be the ...

... flight directors is really responsible for executing the mission. The Space Shuttle Program Office, the group that actually defines what our mission objectives are going to be from an agency level ... hands on that and understand it, because if something doesn’t quite fit right or doesn’t work right on orbit, they’re the ones who are there on site. They’ve ... -Nazzal:''' You don’t want to kill the crew, in other words. '''Abbott:''' Right, exactly, that’s exactly right. And you don’t want to say, “Well, we’ve got to cancel ...

... with the electronic sound makers in the simulator, and get it to the right decibel levels and the right tones. Now, we didn’t use that feature unless the crew had their ... astronaut corps, and that relationship, not just those two specifically, but the whole payload specialists group. '''O'Connor:''' We had two European payload specialists that were in my class—Wubbo J ... song on it and I said, “I want you to go right in the middle of his tape somewhere, just right in the middle, and superimpose the Navy fight song somewhere on ...

... To that end, in August 1958, Lapp’s Canadian Astronautical Society (CAS) dispatched their group secretary, an electronics wizard named Arthur Maine, to the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) ... England at that time, but were under American military authority. Image:CAShelicalantenna.jpg right thumb '''The CAS Helical satellite tracking antenna''' Blue Streak was the centerpiece of ...

... Wolfe in the book The Right Stuff. He exaggerates it, does Tom Wolfe, but he underscores a mindset of these people. They’re a very extraordinary group, and they, no choice of ... a Tom Cruise and a Jennifer Lopez—just wildly famous individuals. Now, when the first group of scientist-astronauts came, my impression from them is they were not shunned as outsiders ... government wants,” and were rather gracious to the scientists . Then when we came, the second group, there were already some scientists there, and the original astronauts themselves maybe didn’t feel ...

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