We have had a couple more Descent Aborts Mission Techniques meetings resulting in substantial progress which I would like to tell you about in this memo, if you haven’t already heard….
Category: Contingency plans
AGC program status for AS-278
I guess enough things have happened affecting the status of the programs for the AS-278 mission that I ought to issue another status report. According to MIT, work is progressing along basically on schedule. The major effort is currently in Ed Copps’ area where coding of the program is going on which should be completed…
G Lunar Surface stuff is still incomplete
On February 27 we held a Mission Techniques meeting which I thought was going to simply edit the “final” version of the Lunar Surface Document prior to its release. To my chagrin we discovered that there are at least two areas requiring much more thought and analysis. We will probably meet again to resolve these…
Mission techniques for the LM lunar stay go/no go
As a result of several meetings on the subject, I think we have finally pinned down how to handle the go/no go decision to be made immediately after LM landing on the lunar surface. This memorandum is to report the techniques and to solicit your comments….
F/G Rendezvous Mission Techniques – mostly F
As part of F/G Torture Week, we spent Thursday, January 30 on the rendezvous. Overall, I would say this mission phase is in pretty good shape with only a few unresolved items that we know about right now. I would like to tabulate here a bunch of odds and ends we agreed to at this…
Ascent Phase Mission Techniques meeting – February 27, 1968
In the absence of Charley Parker, our beloved leader, I inherited the job of chairing this meeting which probably accounts for why we didn’t really get an awful lot done. However, there are a couple of things that are probably worth reporting….
Flyby solutions in the RTCC Midcourse program will not be absolutely optimum
This memo is to inform you of a simplification in RTCC program requirements I recently approved. As noted below, the capability we are providing appears to be adequate and the cost of the optimization is incompatible with the benefit to be gained. The rest of this memo is lifted almost verbatim from one Bob Ernull…
G Lunar Surface Phase Mission Techniques
During the first half of 1968 we held a sequence of meetings which culminated in a proposed set of mission techniques concerning use of the guidance and propulsion systems while the LM is in the lunar surface. This was documented in a Lunar Surface Phase Mission Techniques book, dated October 6, 1968. On February 5…
Fifth “D” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting—don’t miss Paragraph 5; it’s great!
We spent just about the entire February 26 meeting discussion the way the AGS and PNGCS should be used during the “D” Mission rendezvous. I feel as though we have accomplished quite a lot in this area having reached agreement on how the AGS should be used throughout that mission phase, with one minor exception….
C Prime Maneuver Monitoring Mission Techniques into cement
On November 2 we went over the C’ Maneuver Monitoring Mission Techniques for the last time – that is, we all hope and expect it’s “final.” Although, the detailed procedures will be documented elsewhere, I would like to describe the new things we established at this meeting. They deal primarily with overburn protection by manual…