We cleaned up a lot of stuff at the subject meeting. Attached are updated “Ground Rules, Working Agreements, and other things,” and another list of open items to be discussed at our next meeting currently scheduled for September 6, 1968, or whenever the crew is available after that….
Category: Apollo 9
“D” MISSION RENDEZVOUS NAVIGATION MISSION TECHNIQUES PANEL
Objectives of the panel are to establish the following rendezvous navigation mission techniques……
“D” RENDEZVOUS MISSION TECHNIQUES OPEN ITEM LIST
July 25, 1968…
Comments on IMU compensation procedures
Attached is an MIT memo I thought you should see. It proposes that the MCC update the gyro compensation terms in the spacecraft computers whenever they are detectably wrong. One benefit, of course, is the possibility of eliminating a bunch of IMU alignments. But more important, it keeps the system right….
Reduction in Number of P52 Alignments During Apollo Missions
References: 1. RAPSIC Memo 2. Apollo 10 Flight Plan, March 12, 1969…
“D” RENDEZVOUS MISSION TECHNIQUES ACTION ITEM LIST
June 18, 1968…
“D” Rendezvous Mission Techniques Ground Rules, Working Agreements, and other things
On June 14 we cranked up the “D” Rendezvous Mission Techniques activities again. It was a grueling profitable day. In fact, we had such a good time we’ve scheduled another one for July 12….
“D” mission launch window is nice
This note is in follow-up to our “D” mission launch window discussion during our Tuesday morning meeting. Essentially, the situation is as I understood it to be at that time. Real time procedures can be and are being established to provide a launch window about two and threequarters hours long by using the earlier propulsion…