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Digging Apollo

It is our opinion that after this time the task of maintaining the desired relative location of the entry footprint with respect to the recovery ships should be handled by moving the ships to wherever you want them in the footprint rather than maneuvering the spacecraft to move the footprint.

Month: June 1966

Spacecraft computer program status report

June 2, 1966 - Howard W. Tindall, Jr. Posted on by flight

Tom Gibson and I went to MIT on May 25 and 26 with one of our primary objectives to determine exactly what the program schedule situation was for the AS-504 (AS-207/208) spacecraft computer programs. Although we had a number of very fruitful discussions with MIT people, such as Ed Copps, Dick Battin, John Dahlen, and…

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Apollo spacecraft computer programs–or, a bucket of worms

June 13, 1966 - Howard W. Tindall, Jr. Posted on by flight

Well, I just got back from MIT with my weekly quota of new ulcers, which I thought might interest you. We spent one day discussing the AS-204 situation, another on AS-501 and AS-502, and the third day primarily on crew procedures associated with the LEM lunar rendezvous crew timeline. I will give you my impression…

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