Month: <span>August 1966</span>

We have every expectation that the flight program we finally must accept will be of less than desirable quality. It will not have undergone sufficient verification tests and will very likely still contain program bugs. Following the flight program test release, extensive effort will be carried out to determine the limitations and inadequacies of the program in order that operational procedures may be established to work around them.
Apollo spacecraft computer programs--or, a bucket of wormsJune 13, 1966Howard W. Tindall, Jr.
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Automatic rendezvous braking maneuver

August 30, 1966 - Howard W. Tindall, Jr. Posted on 28 December 2021 by flight

As you know, MIT is currently designing the command module and lunar module computer programs without provision for automatic braking maneuvers. There has been some thought to reversing this direction. However, Don Cheatham, Aaron Cohen, and I agreed today to proceed as we are for the AS-207/208 programs–that is, do not provide automatic braking maneuvers…

Notes regarding the AS-207/208 Guidance Systems Operation Plan (GSOP) meeting with MIT

August 30, 1966 - Howard W. Tindall, Jr. Posted on 6 May 202227 May 2022 by flight

During the week of August 15, we held a review of the AS-207/208 Guidance Systems Operation Plan (GSOP) at MIT. Some things interested me which I will pass on to you here. I will also include some of the more significant decisions–that is, direction to MIT–that were made at that time….