Almost the entire April 9 Lunar Reentry Mission Techniques meeting was spent in discussion of the second and third midcourse correction maneuvers made on the way back from the moon. Ron Berry presented some really interesting data which I think gives us an insight into the character of these maneuvers needed to assure the techniques…
Category: Recovery
Transearth midcourse correction philosophy – a major operation break through!
In trying to establish mission techniques for the midcourse correction maneuvers on the way back from the moon, we reached a point beyond which we could not progress without first establishing some sort of maneuver philosophy, like:…
C’ entry initialization with no communication
Bob Weber, Jon Harpold, and some of their friends got together to work out the procedure for the crew to determine the landing point for targeting the GNCS entry program (P61) in the event of a no communication/return to earth. The procedure is essentially as we laid it out during one of our big meetings…
Landing point dispersions given communication loss in lunar orbit
During Chris Kraft’s staff meeting of July 17 there was a long discussion regarding the necessity of a beacon to help the recovery people find the spacecraft. It was pretty well concluded that it was not needed as long as we knew where the spacecraft landed to within several hundred miles. Of course, if the…