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... . How to roughly identify different kinds of rocks. They weren’t geologists, but very bright guys, and they could learn very quickly. That’s something I picked up on real quick ... little mini geologic maps for each station that the crew went to. One of the guys spent basically his whole career trying to determine the surface orientation of all the samples ... room didn’t believe them, actually, until the rocks came back, for sure. Some guys believed them, some guys didn’t. “No, no, no, that can’t be right, we can’t ...

... drooled and, you walked by the building; you didn’t even go in. Some guys were—guys and girls—were assigned to support them. I was fortunate in that my very first ... some area that was their field of expertise. Hoot was a main engine guy. I was an APU guy. Somebody else had something. So I was sent off to learn everything you ... same way that commercial airliners do nowadays. Commercial airline pilots go in the simulator. A guy flying for Continental Airlines goes up here on John F. Kennedy Boulevard In-Flight Training ...

... board. They were still flight testing it, but that was by the flight test operations guys out at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico . So the role of the engineer overseeing ... flight dynamics people are keeping the trajectories and so forth. They were there. The Gemini guys were there waiting. They were going to launch in a few minutes themselves. When the ... come within a few seconds of each other. And incidentally, Bernie Brabant was the electrical guy in the back room, and this points out the interaction between—I talked about team ...

... for the move. The flight secretaries were secretary stenographers. If they were busy and the guys needed someone for dictation, then Georgie and I were called. We backed up the secretaries ... worked horrendous hours, absolutely horrendous hours. We were good, easy targets. So were the training guys and the team leaders, and they were always slipping things in their checklists that they ...

... , McDonnell…—it was McDonnell Aircraft Corporation then—McDonnell, they were a very capable group of guys. They'd been building airplanes and they knew how to build this. And this machine ... something we could talk about. We could offer that." Glynn S. Lunney and the operations guys had developed some techniques that looked like reasonable things to do, so he said, "Put ... introduce this whole new docking system concept. When I remember, there was a group of guys headed over there, his name is Vladimir Sergeyevich Syromyatnikov, and he and I have become ...

... months and months in advance suddenly were out the window. '''Duke:''' Exactly. '''Ward:''' And you guys had to then figure out, “All right, how do you run this new spacecraft arrangement ... of scientific instruments, the weight that you carried on Apollo 11 versus how much you guys had. You had about twice as much— '''Duke:''' Yeah. '''Ward:''' —scientific equipment on your flight ...

... the nature of what I did along with Mack Henderson and several other guys, a lot of other guys in fact. The results of a lot of our work were stored in ... got to a limiting condition. The people who generated the faults were separate kinds of guys and they would manipulate software that would produce traces on controller displays like the telemetered ... place so that 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 ...

... connection to Sputnik or the space effort at that time. I was merely a civilian guy going through an internship. But there was an interesting thing in the fifties called the ... . My recollection of it is that Chris sat us down and said basically, “Now, listen guys. You’ve had a lot of disagreements with the medical investigators over this whole training ... 5, in the mockups, going through some of the arcane maintenance procedures. He says, “You guys have never looked at this backup docking procedure. Let me show you where things are ...

... people have done. As an example, Michael Esslinger is digging up photographs of recovery forces guys, the frogmen and all that, that he found were water-soaked pictures, and he really ... themselves necessarily with their areas that they were responsible for. Like the environmental control systems guy also had the cryogenics, which was prime on 13. It turned out that everybody got ... not charity." In fact, they even had Universal in their letterhead. I said, "Are you guys associated with Universal Studios?" "Oh, no." I says, "Well, you could have fooled me." '''Kelly ...

... perspective, because there were people from all over. And Bill was just an amazing, amazing guy. '''Wright:''' That’s what we’ve heard. '''Accola:''' He would write everything on his blackboard ... just wait to get the data. There was a sleep-monitoring experiment that required the guy to put on a beanie cap for his EEG electroencephalogram , and the investigator for that ... managers in the Mission Evaluation Room, who weren’t necessarily there ordinarily—and the engineering guys who were on standby for support, and the Program Managers would come over and stick ...

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