Although most of the things discussed in our Friday, July 19 “C” Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting are not of general interest, there were a couple of things I would like to let you know about….
Category: Apollo 7
Status evaluation meeting – “C” Mission Rendezvous
As most of you are probably aware, we have a special “C” Mission Rendezvous meeting scheduled for April 22, starting at 9:00am in room 966 of Building 2. This memorandum is to define its purpose as I understand it. It is also to inform you that another somewhat related meeting which had been scheduled or…
Eighth and Ninth “C” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meetings
Most of the March 15 and 22 “C” Mission rendezvous Mission Techniques meetings were devoted to discussion of onboard rendezvous navigation with the sextant. This was brought about by the rather bad experience suffered by the 101 flight crew and a number of the flight controllers on the Kennedy Space Center mission simulator earlier in…
“Final” review of Spacecraft (Mission “C”) Retrofire and Reentry Mission Techniques
On January 10 we had a “final” review of Spacecraft 101 (Mission “C”) Retrofire and Reentry Mission Techniques as documented in the logical flow charts prepared by TRW based on a series of meetings we have had here at MSC. These flow charts, which show the operations starting several hours prior to the retrofire maneuver…
Sixth “C” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting
This March 1 meeting conflicted with the President’s speech but a few of us dedicated jokers pressed on as follows….
Fourth Mission “C” Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting
As a result of our deliberations today (February 16) I think we have finally determined what to do about delta V residuals on the NCC₁ maneuver. Previously, it had been stated that we would probably trim out small values but, in order to save RCS, would allow larger values to propagate to the subsequent maneuvers,…
“C” rendezvous open item clean up
Paul Kramer, Phil Shaffer, Duane Mosel, Ed Lineberry, and myself spent the morning of May 7 trying to close our major open items remaining on the “C” mission rendezvous. These items were:…
Third Mission “C” Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting
Based on our two previous meetings, TRW had prepared the first version of the mission techniques flow diagrams for the “C” Mission Rendezvous. This meeting on February 2 was devoted to going through that flow. As usual, in spite of the fact we thought we had everything all worked out, we ran into numerous items…
Second Mission “C” Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting
On January 17 we held our second Mission “C” Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting. I feel we have this mission phase pretty well in hand conceptually. There are a number of numerical limits yet to be set….
Seventh “C” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting
Except for the first item listed below, the entire “C” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting of March 8 was devoted to the terminal phase. Based on the very great importance FCOD is putting on proper lighting during the braking phase, a proposal is being considered for including another little tune up maneuver between NSR and…