Mr. C. C. Kraft announced at his Monday morning meeting that the EMS will be used for controlling reentry on the “C” mission in the event of a G&N failure regardless of when that failure occurs. This was decided over his mild objection at George Low’s CCB meeting last week….
Category: Mission types
“D” Rendezvous Mission Techniques Task Assignments for MPAD
Attached is a list of action items associated with our work on “D” Rendezvous Mission Techniques. Would you please see that all those assigned to MPAD are covered by proper Task Assignments (I expect that most of them already are). Specifically, items 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, and 11 are probably OMAB’s jobs and item…
Mission C DAP initialization procedures
In a memo dated November 28, you recommend that “DAP initialization procedures for Mission G be established where either crew input requirements are eliminated entirely, or restricted at most to one inertia update following the largest SPS burn.” I am writing you this note to let you know that what has been planned is entirely…
Seventh “D” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting
At the seventh “D” Mission Rendezvous Mission Techniques meeting on March 25, we spent most of our time discussing activity in the football rendezvous, specifically, under what circumstances and how to abort. It turned out that the same ground rules and techniques probably apply equally well to the pseudo-TPI maneuver halfway through the rendezvous exercise….
F mission lunar orbit attitude sequence
This belated memo is to describe the results of our March 10 Mission Techniques meeting on the F mission lunar orbit attitude sequences as well as I can remember them….
Manual Steering for LM Ascent
Over the years various groups have attacked the problem of if and how the crew can manually steer the LM back into orbit from the lunar surface. These studies were started before GAEC was even selected to build the LM and some analysis is still going on to define the optimum pitch attitude profile, which…
D Rendezvous Mission Techniques
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….
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…