The final review of the D Rendezvous Mission Techniques will be held on Wednesday, January 15, starting at 9:00 a.m., in Room 383, Building 4….
Category: Apollo missions
Sextant Rendezvous Navigation Review
As noted in the attached memorandum, I would like to request your active participation in a meeting on April 25 to review for “C” mission operational personnel the work your people have done on CSM sextant rendezvous navigation. I think, in order in insure proper use of the CSM G&N during the spacecraft 101 flight,…
Descent monitoring at MCC
We have reached a plateau in our work on Descent Monitoring, perhaps making it worthwhile to send out this memo. First of all, I don’t think there is any question that Descent is the thing that requires most of our attention between now and the G mission, at least in the empire of Mission Techniques….
Proceed button
Looks like we’re approaching the final chapter in the proceed button story. As I understand it, all manned Apollo spacecraft will have computers wired such that the standby button serves the dual purpose of standby function, as before, and a proceed function duplicating Verb 33 Enter. At least, that is the current intention. Apparently there…
DPS Modeling
It might be worthwhile for you or your people to look into the DPS modelling in the RTCC. The “D” mission includes several maneuvers with manual throttling. Improper modeling of these burns may have some effect on the operation, although, offhand I would not think so….
Software for the AAP CSM spacecraft computer
The time appeared right to try to find out exactly what the program requirements are for the CSM computer for AAP and we had meetings on January 28 and 30 to do that. As a result of these meetings, a number of PCR’s will be prepared and submitted to the Apollo Spacecraft Software Configuration Control…
AGS licks PGNCS for RCS Insertion
Pete Conrad has discovered and, if necessary, intends to do something that Dan Payne and others around here got squared away a year or more ago. Unfortunately, due to the press of more urgent business, we failed to advertise it enough. This note is to make sure you know that the AGS does a better…
Notice of a catch-all Apollo 12 Mission Techniques meeting
We have scheduled a Mission Techniques meeting on Monday, September 15, 1969, to go over the Apollo 12 flight for the “last” time. Although most of the discussion will probably deal with the landing and rendezvous phases, we would like to clean up all open items regardless of mission phase….
Apollo 205/101 reentry procedures
ASPO’s Systems Engineering Division wrote a memo outlining general procedures to be used by the Spacecraft 101 crew following a G&N controlled deorbit burn and also specifying that an automatic reentry would definitely not be performed. You forwarded that memo to me questioning whether our Data Priority Coordination group had looked into this subject and,…