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... , electroencephalogram. The psychiatric exam there was interesting. There was a good-guy psychiatrist and a bad-guy psychiatrist. The good-guy psychiatrist explored, I’d say, your feeling, interpersonal interaction sides of you ... and Dave David M. Walker primary credit for coming up with concepts there. Meanwhile, the guys on the ground are developing concepts and were bouncing those off between each other, from ...

... . '''Bell:''' Well, the Mercury was pretty much already flying, of course. I worked for a guy by the name of Frank H. Samonski, who was the environmental control systems, ECS, manager ... thing about a diving incident, it happened, I think, off the California coast, where a guy put a spent lithium canister in his diving system and then died because he didn ... to, to get the Shuttle going. So I worked over there and then supported a guy by the name of Larry G. Williams, who had the cargo engineering office, in establishing ...

... 'Hara:''' No, surprisingly. Maybe it was because of the time, but back then, whatever those guys wanted, they got. I mean, the space program was new and it was much favored ... center. But the relationship never really changed at all. '''Wright:''' And once you had these guys in your life, they just didn’t go away, did they? '''O'Hara:''' I never ... seemed to mind, because your whole goal was to be there and to get the guy launched safely and recover it safely. So holidays became almost nonexistent much of the time ...

... even remember the fellow that took me around, but P.R. Bell was right. The guy didn’t know anything about seismology. With great fanfare he showed me this pier, and ... Minneapolis, Minnesota , and was against the Vietnam War, you know, but a very, very nice guy, very brilliant. The reason I say he’s brilliant, he’s probably the only person ... at the National Science Foundation.” I said, “Oh, yes, I know dozens of guys.” I knew one guy. We’d been in graduate school together, and he was a program manager for ...

... the FIDO, Flight Dynamics Officer, for what’s going on and everything. And the guidance guys were also in that room, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Jack John ... flight operations people. And so “You designers don’t know how to operate,” and, “You guys operating it don’t know how to design,” that sort of thing. But eventually everybody ... orbit. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' What were your basic duties as chief? '''Bennett:''' Just coordinate all the guys together and be sure we had the right people on the right jobs there. I ...

... using the cameras. We had the RPM Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver at rendezvous where the Station guys take some 400- and 800-millimeter pictures. That data is insufficient to clear the vehicle ... and the different ISS controllers, because once the big payload gets up there, the Shuttle guys really are hands off during the joint mission. We interface our Shuttle crew with the ... it changes your trajectory. We had minor hiccups here and there with the sim simulation guys working, training on one plan but having trajectory for a different plan and trying to ...

... using the cameras. We had the RPM Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver at rendezvous where the Station guys take some 400- and 800-millimeter pictures. That data is insufficient to clear the vehicle ... and the different ISS controllers, because once the big payload gets up there, the Shuttle guys really are hands off during the joint mission. We interface our Shuttle crew with the ... it changes your trajectory. We had minor hiccups here and there with the sim simulation guys working, training on one plan but having trajectory for a different plan and trying to ...

... was all resolved, but there was a little bit of a feeling about the Marshall guys. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Did you work at all with von Braun? '''Kehlet:''' Not personally with him ... ? '''Kehlet:''' Didn’t have too much at all. George Low was a good guy. Shea was a good guy. I knew George Low from Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio , and John H ... pretty well staffed up, and the opportunity was to—well, a fellow named Rockwell, the guy that’s the Rockwell of the Rockwells, said he wanted to take three space cadets ...

... them—that were involved in Apollo. I and others all made—I was the major guy to make the presentations, along with George Low. He gave the program management description, and ... as specific details that you took as your personal responsibility? '''Kraft:''' Personally? I'm a guy that wants to know what's going on in everything. But I don't have ... little bit about it in order to be able to do that. But the MIT guys were brilliant. Brilliant group of engineers. They just needed good management, which they were trying ...

... . Kranz, who was my second boss. '''Rusnak:''' So what do you think these group of guys from AVRO, who did have some experience, obviously, in flight testing and these design, what ... bottle of Kaopectate, and that was a big problem. Laughter '''Rusnak:''' It sounds like you guys got one of the better sites. We’ve heard some interesting stories about some of ... the SPAN room as well and running evaluations on the kinds of problems the sim guys would be throwing the control team? '''Aldrich:''' Yes. We didn’t have the Mission Evaluation ...

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