I made an announcement during the F Operations Review which was absolutely flat-out wrong. This memo is to correct that statement and/or just to make sure you know what capability really exists in the CSM for rendezvous navigation….
Category: Mission types
F/G cis-lunar midcourse correction mission techniques
This memo is to document the cis-lunar midcourse correction mission techniques we agreed to January 27 and 28 at the F and G Mission Techniques meetings. The translunar maneuvers are based on the following assumptions and guidelines:…
July 19 “C” Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting
Although most of the things discussed in our Friday, July 19 “C” Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting are not of general interest, there were a couple of things I would like to let you know about….
List of “D/E” Rendezvous open items
On April 8, we had our first weekly “D/E” Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting. We spent the whole time going through the main flow charts. This memorandum is not really minutes of the meeting, but rather a list of questions and action items. We are assuming that both the “D” and “E” missions will utilize the…
Status evaluation meeting – “C” Mission Rendezvous
As most of you are probably aware, we have a special “C” Mission Rendezvous meeting scheduled for April 22, starting at 9:00am in room 966 of Building 2. This memorandum is to define its purpose as I understand it. It is also to inform you that another somewhat related meeting which had been scheduled or…
Request to check some IMU alignment equations
The “D” mission flight crew has developed in detail the technique for aligning the LM platform while docked to the CSM which utilizes our knowledge of the relative alignment of the Nav bases on the CSM and LM. Part of the procedure is to establish the required LM IMU gimbal angles to be input into…
LM spacecraft assignments
This is just to make sure you all get the word in case it influences your work in some way. As I understand it, Mr. Low has directed that LM-2 be configured for unmanned flight only. It has been established that the first manned LM will be the LM-3 spacecraft. If it’s found unnecessary to…
G mission lunar descent is uphill – all the way
Just in case you didn’t know, I thought I would send you this note about some nominal G mission landing site characteristics which I thought were kind of interesting. First of all, apparently this landing site (2-P-6) is about 9,000 feet lower than the mean lunar radius. The significance of this, of course, is that…
CSI and CDH back into the AGS – maybe
Apparently the TRW AGS people have done a good job of putting the new rendezvous radar navigation filter into that dinky computer. In fact, they now estimate a surplus of some 80 words….
Let’s drop one of the lunar surface RR tests
During our review of the G Mission Lunar Surface Mission Techniques Document on April 10, we came to a conclusion which may interest you. It deals with the need, or really lack of need, for the crew to do some things that are in the current flight plan. Specifically, in the crew LM timeline, we…