We’ll try to clean up the rest of the “C” mission open items at a meeting on Friday, July 19, in Room 2032B of Building 30. Retrofire and Reentry will be discussed in the morning, starting at 9 a.m., and Rendezvous in the afternoon – or as soon as we finish the Retrofire session. Attached…
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“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….
Attention worthy Descent Program Anomaly
Gene Kranz brought the attached G mission LUMINARY Anomaly Report to my attention. I have no idea how he happened to find it amongst all the more insignificant ones. No one else seemed particularly aware or concerned about it, but I wanted to bring it to your attention….
C’ Communication Loss
A lot of work is going into the subject contingency – with respect to:…
Rope manufacture for AS-502
This note is to inform everyone that the AS-502 spacecraft computer program ropes will be made precisely the same as those for AS-501. Specifically, it is MIT assembly Solarium 55. You recall Solarium 54 was our original AS-501 A-release, but it was necessary to make a modification in one of the rope modules to correct…
Spacecraft computer program – things dealing with lunar descent and aborts from it
I spent an interesting morning at MIT on May 16 with George Cherry, Dan Lickly, Norm Sears, and Craig Schulenberg talking about Luminary how it works and some things that really haven’t been defined yet. It primarily dealt with lunar descent and aborts from lunar descent….
Data requirements during rendezvous sequence
The purpose of this memorandum is to establish a requirement for high bit rate (HBR) telemetry data during the mission “C” rendezvous sequence….
GDC required for TLI
In reference to your November 18 memo to me in which you state that the Gyro Display Coupler (GDC) is required to be operable for commitment to TLI, I would like to assure you that current C’ mission rules reflect this requirement. It is agreed by everyone I have talked to that redundant attitude reference…