As a result of some stirring around within NASA on how the various guidance and control systems are used during descent, George Cherry of MIT took it upon himself to write a complete description of the capabilities that exist and how they may be used. Without doubt, this is the finest, briefest, most readable description…
Category: Mission phases
Lunar Rendezvous Mission Techniques
A number of people who know about the rendezvous radar (Myron Kayton, Richard Broderick, etc.) came to our little Lunar Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting October 2 and assuaged our anxieties regarding the possibility of poor shaft angle measurements when the line-of-sight to the command module passes close to the lunar horizon. According to the data…
“C” Mission Clean Up
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…
“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:…
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….